Thanks. I have test different cpus. Our institute has two clusters: one is each node has 4 cpu (A), one is one node has only 1 cpu (B). I made different tests on the two clusters and my local computer using the same system. See the following result:
A (For 1 hour)
# of cpus ; MD steps
4 finished (200000steps for 26:21)
8 finished (200000steps for 40:57)
12 87950
20 42749
44 5962 !!!!!
B (For 1 hour)
# of cpu ; MD steps
1 156991 for 56:12
2 179820
3 200,000 for 54:20
4 200,000 for 51:12
c. Local(single cpu), 200000 steps For 1h52:38
One can see that
1. On cluster A, one nodes(4 cpu) is just as 4 times fast as my local computer.
2. More than one nodes will decrease the performancs the gromacs,
3. On cluster B, the more cpu used, the faster gromacs runs. But the difference of speed is not apparent.
4. Cluster B with 4 cpus is slow as half as that Cluster A with 1 node (4 cpus)
I wonder if anyone can tell the bottlenack: the hardware on the cluster or gromacs?
2006/9/14, Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You have to
> find your optimum making some tests with your settings. To do that you can
> start your simulation and interrupt after a while to have some data logged
> in the log file. Then, from the information in that log file you can
> estimate the time that the whole task will take and compare using more or
> less number of processors until you find your optimum value.
Of course, that "while" should be at least of the order of several
minutes. There is a set-up cost borne once at the start of the calculation
which is not proportional to the length of the calculation, so you need to
run long enough to get out of the time period during which it dominates
the linear component.
Mark
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