Hi, On Friday 25 August 2006 09:08, Erik Lindahl wrote: > Hi, > > The Pande group will indeed be using Gromacs in [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the PS3, > but > at least initially it will be not be an accelerated version that > makes good use of all the 8 SPE processors, but rather compiled. To > them it's still useful due to the sheer number of machines they can > get access to. > > However, we _are_ working on real Cell optimizations, but that's much > harder. In contrast to SSE/Altivec/ia64 assembly it is not just a > matter of instructions, but we need to come up with an entirely new > way of handling the data, and programming direct memory access on the > SPEs.
A good article about cell and scientific computing is: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1128022.1128027 > > Similar stuff is going in with graphics cards. Right now the > neighborlists is the main obstacle, but we have good hopes this might > improve in the next generation of GPUs. > > So, we're not keeping things secret, it's just that this type of > hardware isn't particularly useful compared to clusters yet ;-) Also clearspeed technology is interesting but not really usable nowadays. > > Cheers, > > Erik > > On Aug 24, 2006, at 9:38 PM, David Mobley wrote: > > Sabuj, > > > > I suggest asking the Pande group directly. As far as I know they are > > mostly not checking the list that regularly. > > > > Are you sure that it is [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the PS3? I had thought they > > just ported > > GROMACS there. > > > > David > > > > On 8/24/06, Sabuj Pattanayek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I haven't used [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I've heard that it uses Gromacs as > >> its > >> engine. So this probably means that someone has already ported it for > >> the Cell proc. Any plans to eventually make this port available > >> for d/l? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Sabuj Pattanayek > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gmx-users mailing list [email protected] > >> http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > >> Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > >> www interface or send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gmx-users mailing list [email protected] > > http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > > Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www > > interface or send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php > > _______________________________________________ > gmx-users mailing list [email protected] > http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > www interface or send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php Greetings, Florian -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Florian Haberl Computer-Chemie-Centrum Universitaet Erlangen/ Nuernberg Naegelsbachstr 25 D-91052 Erlangen Telephone: +49(0) − 9131 − 85 26581 Mailto: florian.haberl AT chemie.uni-erlangen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gmx-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php
