Re: NAMD 2.7 released

From: Gianluca Interlandi (gianluca_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 20 2010 - 15:33:33 CDT

Thank you very much! It seems to be up to 40% faster than the 2.6 version,
although I am not running the cluster at full load yet.

Gianluca

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Jim Phillips wrote:

>
> I have a 32-bit Clustermatic 4 build:
>
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~jim/tmp/NAMD_2.7_Linux-x86-Clustermatic4.tar.gz
>
> -Jim
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Gianluca Interlandi wrote:
>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> This is great! Is there also a compiled version for Clustermatic 5?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gianluca
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Jim Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I pushed 2.7 out the door on Friday. There have been over 180 downloads
>>> and no complaints so far. The only significant change since 2.7b4 is that
>>> the CUDA build now calculates the full pressure tensor and therefore
>>> supports anisotropic periodic cell fluctuations. The extra bonds feature
>>> has also been documented in the user guide.
>>>
>>> For new information and installation at Abe, Ranger, and Kraken see
>>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/wiki/?Namd27Release
>>>
>>> I have just discovered that since 2.7b3 the charmrun for net versions does
>>> not tolerate being suspended with control-Z or kill -STOP like it used to.
>>> I will update the 2.7 packages with a fixed charmrun when it is available.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your patience and support!
>>>
>>> -Jim
>>>
>>>
>>
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>> Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
>> +1 (206) 685 4435
>> http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/
>>
>> Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
>> at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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>
> NAMD: Scalable Molecular Dynamics
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/
>

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Gianluca Interlandi, PhD gianluca_at_u.washington.edu
                     +1 (206) 685 4435
                     http://artemide.bioeng.washington.edu/

Postdoc at the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of Washington, Seattle WA U.S.A.
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