Hi,
On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Syma Khalid wrote:
I am about to buy some compute nodes for a mini-cluster (mainly for
running
gromacs simulations).
I have just been asked:
'One factor that needs to be considered is how much memory should be
supplied per node, I suspect the choice is between 4GB & 8GB per
node (ie.
0.5 or 1 GB per processor-core for an 8 processor-core node).'
by our HPC technicians. Any advice as to which I should go for, the
4 or 8
GB version?
It depends on the type of molecules you intend to simulate.
If it's going to be small systems (tens of thousands of atoms) you
should be fine with 512MB per core, but for more general stuff I'd go
with 1GB per core (that's what we recently ordered).
Since a bit of memory will be used by the OS, file system buffers, and
executables I would guess the memory "available" to simulation data
would be a factor ~3 higher in the latter case.
Cheers,
Erik
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Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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