Re: [AMBER] AMBER disk usage on CPU or GPU nodes

From: Lenz, Stefan <stefan.lenz.uleth.ca>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:11:06 -0700

Thanks Ross,

I really appreciate the response.

Stefan

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:58 AM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> AMBER does not make use of any temporary disk space when running so there
> really aren't many advantages to having local disk on a node for AMBER
> unless you have a slow or overloaded cluster wide storage. One advantage
> of local disk on a node might be for writing output data there as part of a
> workflow that also did the analysis and then discarded the intermediate
> simulation data but that would likely be a very specific use case.
>
> All the best
> Ross
>
> > On Feb 13, 2018, at 12:27, Lenz, Stefan <stefan.lenz.uleth.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have noticed that on the suggested hardware listed on
> > http://ambermd.org/gpus/recommended_hardware.htm that system storage is
> not
> > listed for the rack mount nodes. I was wondering if pmemd (MPI, GPU or
> CPU
> > version) makes use of the disk that may be present on CPU or GPU nodes
> on a
> > cluster.
> >
> > Thanks for any help that you may be able to provide,
> >
> > Stefan Lenz
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