Re: NAMD on Stempede (and other MIC Coprocessor systems)

From: Chris Harrison (charris5_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2013 - 15:18:42 CST

Hi Jeff,

We're working on it presently.

Chris

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Jeff Wereszczynski <
jmweresz_at_mccammon.ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi NAMD List,
>
> With the opening of the Stampede cluster at TACC, I was wondering if
> someone on the development side could comment on the utility of the
> Intel MIC coprocessors in running NAMD? Looking through the
> information on the TACC user guide, it looks like to use these
> coprocessors requires using the Intel MKL libraries for automatic
> offloading, so I'm guessing the current version of NAMD wouldn't
> actually benefit from these...is that correct? Are there any plans
> for the future to (further?) optimize NAMD for these coprocessors
> (which is probably a fairly in-depth task)?
>
> --
> Jeff Wereszczynski
> Postdoctoral Scholar
> University of California, San Diego
> http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/~jwereszc
>
>

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Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
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