Re: CUDA limitations

From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 24 2011 - 07:37:13 CDT

Hi,

I wanted to put this info on the NAMD wiki, but it kept telling me to go
away.

"Unknown IP address. Please go away"

But rigth below it says:
*"YOU* can edit, extend, or even create any page in this site by clicking on
the edit button."

So now I'm a bit confused as to what I'm doing wrong.

Best regards,
Ajasja

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 19:45, Jim Phillips <jim_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Here are quick answers with some explanation:
>
> ABF, meta-dynamics - yes (doesn't alter nonbonded interactions)
>
> useFlexibleCell, useConstantRatio, useConstantArea
> - yes since NAMD 2.7 (pressure tensor is now calculated on GPU)
>
> accelerated MD - no (requires energy, which is not accelerated) but
> should work when energy evaluation on the GPU is implemented
>
> Martini force field - martiniSwitching is broken in both CPU and GPU,
> but yes when the bug is fixed, but coarse grained systems won't
> see much of a performance boost from the GPU because there just
> aren't that many particles. You could benchmark it as-is, though.
>
> implicit solvent - no (requires special nonbonded interactions) but
> certainly a candidate for the GPU in a future release
>
> -Jim
>
>
>
> On Thu, 12 May 2011, Ajasja Ljubeti~M wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is a list of NAMD features not supported by CUDA
>> builds. Currently the manual just states
>> "Some features are unavailable in CUDA builds, including alchemical free
>> energy perturbation."
>>
>> I think that the implicit solvent is also not currently supported.
>> I am most interested in ABF and meta-dynamics in membranes.
>> Does ABF work? What about useFlexibleCell and useConstantRatio or
>> useConstantArea?
>> What about accelerated
>> MD<http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/**Research/namd/2.8b1/ug/node63.**html>
>> >?
>>
>> And the new Martrini force field?
>>
>> Thank you & best regards,
>> Ajasja LjubetiĨ
>>
>

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