[AMBER] Amber GPU performance history

From: David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:32:01 -0500

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, David Case wrote:

>Amber20 no longer supports the Fermi architecture:
>
>We did not take this step lightly, but the C2050 dates from 2011, and the
>internals of GPUs have changed so much since then that it was not feasible
>to continue such support. The performance of more modern GPUs, say going
>all the way back to the GTX1080Ti, is at least an order of magnitude better
>than the C2050. If money is tight, you might be able to find some bargains
>out there for replacement GPUs.

Just to add to this, I've posted an interesting plot of pmemd.cuda
performance vs time here:

    https://ambermd.org/GPUPerformance.php

....dac


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