From: Carsten Olbrich (ocarsten_at_googlemail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 22 2007 - 06:44:29 CDT
Hi Stephen,
we have a quad core Xeon system with Infiniband and Ethernet.
We observed no performance differences between network types.
But you should use the Linux-amd64 build. This is about twice as fast
as the Linux-i686 build. Also the option +giga increased the
performance.
Regards,
Carsten
On 9/21/07, Stephen M. Dutz <smdutz_at_csupomona.edu> wrote:
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> I've searched the message board and the wiki for posts on running NAMD on
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> process of compiling the source code to see if this speeds things up at all.
> I was wondering if anyone out there has tried running NAMD on a similar
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> what type of scaling do you observe.
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