<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Carsten Kutzner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ckutzne@gwdg.de" target="_blank">ckutzne@gwdg.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear developers,<br>
<br>
we run Gromacs on an inhomogeneous cluster with different node groups -<br>
old and new ones, where each group requires an individual acceleration<br>
setting, e.g. SSE2 vs. SSE4.1. If I set GMX_ACCELERATION to SSE2 then I<br>
won't get the optimal performance on some of the nodes, whereas with SSE4.1<br>
the code won't run on all nodes. One way around seems to build different<br>
mdruns, and to select the optimal one after the node has been assigned by the<br>
queue. Is there a more elegant way like including alternate code paths,<br>
where the optimal path is selected at run time?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think there is any other way. You should check the difference between SSE2 and SSE4.1, but at least with the current code (only Verlet scheme accelerated + plain C Group), SSE4.1 is not that much faster.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2nd question: From a performance point of view, does it hurt to have support<br>
for GPU, MPI, and threads compiled in - even if it is not used in many cases?<br>
Or would it be better to have also separate executables for that?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, there should not be. if there is one, please file a bug report.</div><div> </div><div>Cheers,</div><div>--</div><div>
Szilárd</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks for your thoughts,<br>
Carsten<br>
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Dr. Carsten Kutzner<br>
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry<br>
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics<br>
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