AMBER Archive (2001)

Subject: Re: parallel load difference under linux (long)

From: David Konerding (dek_at_cgl.ucsf.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 22 2001 - 14:58:23 CST

Tru Huynh writes:
>Hello,
>
>Please bear with my ignorance on parallel sander (amber6) :)
>On our toy cluster (4x 1GHz K7, fast ethernet) the breakout of
>a benchmark run is as follow:
>(logfile and tail of the output file)

Can you re-run the Amber6 single processor benchmark with an Amber6
compiled single-processor rather than multiple processor?
There is an overhead associated with running the multiple processor
version, on a single processor machine.