AMBER Archive (2009)

Subject: [AMBER] Provisional Support for AMBER 10 PMEMD on NVIDIA GPUs

From: Ross Walker (ross_at_rosswalker.co.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 04 2009 - 13:51:44 CDT


Dear All,

Thanks to a close collaboration with NVIDIA I am pleased to announce that we
now have provisional support for GPU acceleration (using NVIDIA CUDA) in
PMEMD. At present this only covers GB simulations but we hope to add PME
support shortly.

Depending on system size using a GPU can be between 10 and 80x faster than a
single 2.8GHz Intel processor.

A webpage showing provisional benchmarks along with patches for AMBER 10,
supported features and instructions for compiling is available here:

http://ambermd.org/gpus/index.htm

As of Sept 4th 2009 this code has been tested on the following NVIDIA GPUS:

Tesla C1060
GTX295

Additionally it should work on any v1.3 NVIDIA GPU including:

Tesla C1070
GTX285
GTX275

At present only a single GPU is supported but it is our intention to add
support for multiple GPUs (e.g. C1070) shortly.

Please consider this to still be experimental code and thus help will be
provided on an ad hoc basis. Your feedback via the AMBER mailing list is,
however, welcome.

All the best
Ross

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