AMBER Archive (2007)

Subject: RE: AMBER: Sander slower on 16 processors than 8

From: Ross Walker (ross_at_rosswalker.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 22 2007 - 19:47:55 CST


Ah but you missed this bit:
 
"If you look at the ONLY real metric that matters "Wallclock time to
solution" then things aren't quite so bad."
 
;-)
 

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From: owner-amber_at_scripps.edu [mailto:owner-amber_at_scripps.edu] On Behalf Of
Yong Duan
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 14:25
To: amber_at_scripps.edu
Subject: RE: AMBER: Sander slower on 16 processors than 8

 
What Ross was saying was that we all should go back to the "good-old" days
to use 100MHz PII with Gigabit Ethernet. That way, the scaling will be
dramatically better and we will all feel happier. Of course, the bosses
aren't going to be too happy .... :)
 
Cheers!
 
yong
 
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amber_at_scripps.edu [mailto:owner-amber_at_scripps.edu] On Behalf Of
Ross Walker
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 2:15 PM
To: amber_at_scripps.edu
Subject: RE: AMBER: Sander slower on 16 processors than 8

Dear Steve,
 
To understand what you are seeing a takes a deeper understanding of the
concept of a cluster. Just remember "all clusters are not created equal".
 

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