Hi,I recently got a nice Sun X6275 blade system http://nf.nci.org.au/facilities/vayu/hardware.php (ok, not just for me!) whose hardware ought to be better, but very comparable to that used in the GROMACS 4 paper (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct700301q). Figure 5 there demonstrates good scaling out to 38 cpus, but it drops away from linearity by 64. On the same test system on this hardware (pdf attached; blue arrow is ideal linearity) the drop-off is still about the same.
For 64 cpus, that paper reports using 28 PME nodes, which is an appreciably lower ratio than the 2:1 for the rest of the tests. On my hardware I found that that choice cost about 30% performance, compared with a more reasonable use of 19 PME nodes (64 vs 86 ns/day, pdf attached). Is that 28 a typo for 18?
Mark
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