Re: [AMBER] Can L4 GPU cards be used with AMBER 22?

From: Ilyas Yildirim via AMBER <amber.ambermd.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:33:36 +0000

Thanks for the prompt response, Ross. I also realized that they use lower power but in the meantime the size of the CUDA cores is almost comparable to A5000 (7680 vs 8192). I tested A5000 and they look good. We are getting some quotes from different companies, and DELL is not putting A5000 cards into the compute nodes but L4 (or worse A2).

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Hi Ilyas

The L4 GPUs should work fine with AMBER 22 but I haven't had a chance to explicitly benchmark them yet. They are very low power GPUs (just 72W each) so I would expect the performance to pretty poor. You'd probably be much better off with A4500, A5000 or A5500 cards which are available at a discount right now - likely cheaper than the L4. See:

https://www.exxactcorp.com/blog/Molecular-Dynamics/RTX3090-Benchmarks-for-HPC-AMBER22-A100-vs-RTX3080-vs-RTX3070-vs-RTX6000

for performance comparisons.

All the best
Ross

On Jun 21, 2023, at 17:19, Ilyas Yildirim via AMBER <amber.ambermd.org> wrote:

Dear All,

Does anyone have any experience on running the cuda versions of the AMBER 22 software under NVIDIA's L4 GPU cards? I am planning on upgrading my lab's GPU cluster. Thanks in advance.

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