Re: Is there any point in running NAMD over an ethernet-linked cluster?

From: Nicholas M Glykos (glykos_at_mbg.duth.gr)
Date: Sun Sep 21 2014 - 13:21:53 CDT

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> Can anyone on this mailing list tell me if they have successfully
> noted a speed increase by running NAMD across an ethernet-linked
> cluster vs. a single node?

Sure. The following page is since the days of NAMD 2.6 using gigabit
ethernet, Q6660 quads and a 60,000 atom system :

http://norma.mbg.duth.gr/index.php?id=about:benchmarks:namd60k

We could (back in 2009) go to 8 nodes, but at that point the parallel
efficiency had dropped to only ~45%.

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