Re: [AMBER] Multisander: No scale up

From: David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:09:21 -0400

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018, Aravind Ravichandran wrote:

> I am performing TMD and have amber version 14. When I use a single
> node/32 processors for performing TMD simulation, simulations speed up
> to 3ns/day, whereas any increase in the nodes/processors slows down the
> simulation to 0.2ns/day.

This is not unusual. Sander rarely scales beyond a single node, or a
few dozen MPI threads. You could try a sample run without targetting,
but I suspect that any job that goes off-node or beyond 32 threads is
likely to show decreased, rather than increased, performance.

....dac



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