AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: RE: AMBER: Interpreting Amber8 Benchmark Results

From: Bill Ross (ross_at_cgl.ucsf.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 15:44:55 CDT

> Ultimately you should be looking at the total time reported at the end of
> the output file. This is actually Wall Clock Time (NOT CPU TIME) so will
> give you a real understanding of 'time to solution' on a specific machine
> setup.

If you share a single CPU with other users, particularly if
your time is regulated, I would argue that CPU time is more
useful. In that case, wallclock would vary according to other
jobs on the machine. Wallclock is definitely what you need
for a cluster in which you have nodes to yourself.

Bill
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