Hi Olli-Pekka

Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote:
Joe Landman wrote:
Hi folks

  GPU-HMMer (part of the MPI-HMMer effort) has just been
announced/released at http://www.mpihmmer.org

  MPI-HMMer has itself been improved with parallel-IO and better
scalability features.  JP has measured some large number (about 180x)
over single cores on a cluster for the MPI run.

  Enjoy!

Joe


Hi Joe,

Looks quite promising. Here are results from a simple real-world test case:

GPU: Dual GTX280, each with 1GB RAM
CPU: Single Intel Core2 quad Q9550 2.83GHz

hmmsearch 4 threads sorted:                274.49s
hmmsearch 4 threads unsorted:             254.23s
cuda_hmmsearch unsorted                    407.85s
cuda_hmmsearch sorted:                      62.69s
cuda_hmmsearch sorted 2 simultaneous runs:    78.23s 80.79s

Remarks:

-Running hmmsort to sort the sequence database is critical to obtain reasonable performance from cuda_hmmsearch. However, the regular hmmsearch is slightly slower with the sorted database.

-Running two simultaneous runs assigned to different GPUs on a dual-GPU quad-core system yields some performance penalty, but is still quite feasible.

-I used the parameters THREADSIZE=320 BLOCKSIZE=64. I'm not completely sure if these are the optimum values for GTX280. Any better suggestions?

I'd suggest subscribing/posting to the mpihmmer list (http://lists.scalableinformatics.com/mailman/listinfo/mpihmmer) so we don't clutter beowulf with this.

JP could likely tell you more about the appropriate sizing for GTX280. We have a pair of GTX260's in the lab that some runs were done on.

Could you describe your run a bit more (sequence queries, hmm size, database and size)? On the mpihmmer list though ...

Thanks!

Joe



Regards,
Olli-Pekka


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