AMBER Archive (2002)

Subject: Re: "number of processors must be a power of two"

From: Sanjeev B.S. (sanjeev_at_mbu.iisc.ernet.in)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 11:17:35 CDT

>Does sander require the number of processors to be a power of 2? Is
>this perhaps a mpich or beowulf limitation? Thank you.

I have used 6 processors regularly for a long time. That was on linux
clusters. Also on 5 processors! But that was using MPICH/LAM.