Re: run tests with CUDA

From: Massimiliano Porrini (M.Porrini_at_ed.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 04 2011 - 11:45:09 CDT

Dear Axel and Nicholas,

Thank you very much for your useful replies.

I tried with a slightly bigger system (36,230 atoms) and I could
see the expected performances.

Therefore, apparently, it was just matter of the size of the system.

All the best,
MP

2011/5/3 Nicholas M Glykos <glykos_at_mbg.duth.gr>:
>
> Hi Massimiliano,
>
>> with a total number of atoms equal to 14038.
>
> With hardware much inferior to yours (an i7 + GTX295), we observe²
> significant improvement (for the CUDA-enabled runs) only for systems
> containing more than ~20K atoms.
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> ² http://norma.mbg.duth.gr/index.php?id=about:benchmarks:namdv27cuda
>
>
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>
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