Re: NAMD in parallel on CPUs of different type

From: Chris Harrison (charris5_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 19 2012 - 21:29:05 CDT

Possible: yes. Recommended: No, performance will suffer.

Chris

Thomas Albers <talbers_at_binghamton.edu> writes:
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:03:08 -0400
> From: Thomas Albers <talbers_at_binghamton.edu>
> To: Namd Mailing List <namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: namd-l: NAMD in parallel on CPUs of different type
>
> Hello!
>
> We recently expanded our departmental computer cluster. The old
> machines are AMD Phenom II, the new ones are Intel i5-3570. Is it
> possible and recommended to run compute jobs in parallel on both types
> of computers?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>

Best,
Chris

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Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
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