This should be entirely possible with MPI. Depending on which MPI implementation you are using, you would define your machine pool to be 4 instances of the same machine. The documentation for both LAM and MPICH provide documentation on how to do this as a default configuration.
Cheers, Shawn ------------------------------------ Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Senior Scientific Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Rm #369 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 tel: 412-268-4635 ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:55 AM To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Subject: [gmx-users] parallel gromacs hello, i would like to run gromacs in parallel on a single pc with 4 processors. as far as i understand it, this is not possible using mpi. is that correct? and if so, what do i have to use instead? thanks, marc _______________________________________________ gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php _______________________________________________ gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php