Hi,<div><br></div><div>load imbalance is only a performance issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Load balancing affects binary reproducibility (meaning the exact same value) but not accuracy (those it can differ but only within the same accuracy). Binary reproducibility should only be important for testing purposes, thus you should use load balancing to improve the performance if you have a significant imbalance. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Roland</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Sikandar Mashayak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:symashayak@gmail.com">symashayak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi<div><br></div><div>Is load imbalance during mdrun only a performance issue or it affects accuracy of run as well?</div>
<div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div>sikandar</div>
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