AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: amber on sgi

From: Melinda Layten (mlayten_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 10:52:28 CST

You don't use an Altix as a front-end machine anyway.

Having had access to Altix machines, they are a great choice.
Particularly for model systems beyond the peptide in implicit solvent
as they scale nicely.

I second the recommendation to get in touch with Roberto as he has
helped with optimizing certain parts of the SANDER code to improve
performance on the Altix platform and his job is scientific support of
the SGI systems.

He's also done a lot of work with gaussian, so that should run very
well on the Altix.

The main advantages of SGI machines are shared/fast memory, so the
larger your systems, the better this choice is.

Melinda Layten
Stony Brook University

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:35:21 -0800 (PST), Bill Ross <ross_at_cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> > Keep in mind, however, than Altix does not have any graphics
> > capabilities (unless you buy something like SGI Prism), and, so, you
> >cannot run any graphical applications there (such as Leap from AMBER).
>
> Leap does not require special graphics capabilities. It
> used to run fine on a linux x386 machine back in those days.
>
> Bill
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