From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 12 2011 - 14:04:00 CDT
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Burgess, Don E <deburgess_at_uky.edu> wrote:
> Why is the optimal number of processes limited to the number of cpu cores, when I run a job on a gpu tesla 2050?
because there is still a significant chunk of work being done on the CPU.
> I invoke the job with the command:
>
> /home/deburg0/Downloads/NAMD_2.8_Linux-x86_64-CUDA/charmrun ++local +p8 /home/deburg0/Downloads/NAMD_2.8_Linux-x86_64-CUDA/namd2 +idlepoll +devices 0,1 kcsa_T85A_popcwieq-09.conf > kcsa_T85A_popcwieq-09.log
>
> When I try +pN where N>8, my performance gets worse.
with 2 GPU devices and 8 CPU tasks, you have already reached
the point where there is no more gain from oversubscribing the
the GPUs. so why should there be additional speedup?
if you run a CPU only version, you would not expect a speedup
from oversubscribing the CPUs, or do you?
cheers,
axel.
>
> Please refer to the attached log file.
>
> thank you very much for your help.
>
>
>
-- Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0 Institute for Computational Molecular Science Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
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