On 4/25/13 9:48 AM, Richard Broadbent wrote:
The 4.6.1 release is a more advanced version of gromacs with the latest kernels
and features (GPU support, verlet cut-offs etc.).
4.5.7 is a maintenance release for those of us who for whatever reason wish to
keep using the older 4.5.x series release. It mainly adds fixes made to the
4.6.x series to the 4.5.x version of the code. I use it as most of my
calculations were conducted in 4.5.5 so this version allows me to use exactly
the same setup as I was using before.
If you are starting a new project I would suggest that the 4.6.x series is what
you should use as it is substantially faster (for a system I'm running that
contains no water on an Intel sandy-bridge system it is more than 50% faster).
This series will also probably receive more attention in terms of bug fixes and
new releases (though I'm not a developer so I could be wrong about that).
Quite right. 4.5.7 is expected to be the last version in the 4.5.x series, and
I suspect that will be true unless we discover some catastrophic bug that needs
to be patched in older versions. 4.6.x (and the eventual transition to 5.0)
will receive the greatest amount of attention from here on out.
-Justin
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Virginia Tech
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