From: Massimiliano Porrini (M.Porrini_at_ed.ac.uk)
Date: Mon May 09 2011 - 09:28:51 CDT
Dear all,
I am attempting to run replica exchange MD across my three GPUs
(two Teslas C2070 and one GTX 470).
They are all inside my GPU workstation, hence I have one node with three GPUs.
I am using the example files for the deca-alanine folding and I have
set a number of
replica equal to 30 and have added the flags "+devices 0,1,2" and
"+idlepoll" in the
fold_alanin.conf file, as you can see:
set spawn_namd_command [list spawn_namd_simple "[file join
$namd_bin_dir namd2] +devices 0,1,2 +idlepoll +netpoll"]
I thought to have 10 replicas per GPU, but unfortunately I did not.
Apparently the above modifications are not enough.
Indeed, when I checked which and how many GPUs are actually being used
(via the command nvidia-smi -a) I see that only the first typed GPU is
used, in the
above case the number 0 (GTX480).
Alike if I typed "+devices 1,2" the script will use only the number 1
(i.e. one Tesla C2070).
Any hint/suggestion would be really appreciated.
At this point, another (most likely daft) question came up to me:
Is possible to run an "hybrid" simulation across GPU and CPU cores?
I mean: would NAMD be able to run a REMD simulation with e.g. 32
replica, where 8 replica are run
using the CPU, 8 using the GTX, 8 on the Tesla and the last 8 on the
only left Tesla?
Thanks a lot in advance.
All the best,
MP
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