Re: Improve performance

From: David Hardy (dhardy_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 02 2021 - 18:31:51 CST

Dear Geo,

Unfortunately, most of the enhanced sampling methods in NAMD, including the ones you mention, do not yet work for the GPU-resident integrator. We are still working on porting features to the GPU.

Best regards,
Dave

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David J. Hardy, Ph.D.
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
dhardy_at_ks.uiuc.edu, http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~dhardy/
> On Jan 28, 2021, at 7:21 PM, Ropon-Palacios G. <biodano.geo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Josh, 
>  
> Namd3 have implement umbrella sampling, colvar, and smd protocols ? 
>  
> Geo. 
>  
> From: "Vermaas, Josh" <vermaasj_at_msu.edu>
> Date: Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 7:45 PM
> To: "namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>, "Ropon-Palacios G." <biodano.geo_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: namd-l: Improve performance
>  
> For the best NAMD performance on a GPU, use NAMD 3. This blog from NVIDIA has been my goto for explaining the differences to folks that haven’t used NAMD 3 yet. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/delivering-up-to-9x-throughput-with-namd-v3-and-a100-gpu/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/delivering-up-to-9x-throughput-with-namd-v3-and-a100-gpu/__;!!DZ3fjg!tjYMkz_rYz0-mcygjKo9GeKdRm_0FZD8S4mIIgeJcpPHpSrKAvJF-wFdVk0GayNq_w$>
>  
> -Josh
>  
> From: <owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of "Ropon-Palacios G." <biodano.geo_at_gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>, "Ropon-Palacios G." <biodano.geo_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 7:18 PM
> To: "namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu" <namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: namd-l: Improve performance
>  
> Dear namd users, 
>  
> How can i improve namd2.14 performance on GPU?
>  
> I`m using namd2.14 for run membrane protein simulation, but namd only use nor more the 50% of GPU, as can I make to improve this performance. 
>  
> For other hand, if during equilibration of protein-membrane is necessary keep water out membrane? 
>  
> Thanks, 
>  
> Best, 
>  
> Geo. 

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