Hi,
On Oct 9, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Anton Feenstra wrote:
Nevertheless, on newer architectures, threads would ultimately be
the better choice. They're working on it and according to David van
der Spoel it will be in 4.0 (that was on the Developer's list in
May '04... Brrrrr, as David would put it ;-).
Our main problem is that "SMP architectures" has changed a _lot_ the
last 2 years. Instead of having a pool of CPUs reading the same
memory we now need to be careful to avoid NUMA issues, i.e. each
processor "owns" a part of memory, and it is really bad to just
access it randomly (read: worse than our current MPI parallelization,
and thus rather pointless).
We've completely overhauled the MPI parallelization the last year and
now have absolutely amazing scaling in CVS. All nonbonded kernels are
already 100% multithread-capable, but I'm still having some problems
with the neighborsearching, which is the last (big) bit in the puzzle.
Suffice to say, we will get there, but it won't be enabled in the
release until it is useful ;-)
Cheers,
Erik
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