Re: [AMBER] PMEMD Performance issue on AMD cluster

From: Jan-Philip Gehrcke <jgehrcke.googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:40:41 +0200

Hello!

On 08/21/2013 07:29 AM, Sangeetha B wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> We are using a cluster with AMD opteron 6278 (16 core, 2.4 Ghz, 16 ML 3
> cache) on 2 nodes (4 processors on each node, total 128 cores)

In addition to what Jason said, which is absolutely true in general, the
Opteron platform in question is especially affected by the CPU<->memory
communication bottleneck. You also might want to read about the issue in
this thread:

http://archive.ambermd.org/201307/0526.html

Cheers,

Jan-Philip

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