On Tue, Jan 28, 2014, FyD wrote:
>
> From tests carried out in the past on SMP hardware (with shared
> memory) it looks like sander better runs on 2^n core systems; i.e.
> with 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64... cores. This means the scaling is not good
> for instance with 24 cores. Is it correct? On the contrary, on the
> same SMP systems it looks like Gaussian 09 scales quite well on 16 or
> 24 cores.
You are correct about sander working best with 2^n cores, although when n>5,
sander generally will not scale well under any circumstances. The pmemd code
does not have this limitation, and is always faster. (Sander uses a simple
tree code to communicate coordinates and forces, and this code is optimal for
powers of two).
"Psander" was the name of an experimental code that preceded pmemd. I had
forgotten that it was ever even distributed.
I can't help with info about gromacs....maybe you can just run some
experiments yourself....
....dac
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