Dear Dr. Watkins! Thank you for the suggestions!
In the local shops I've found only Core i7 with 6 cores (like Core i7-39xx) and 4 cores. Should I obtain much better performance with 6 cores than with 4 cores in case of i7 cpu (assuming that I run simulation in cpu+gpu mode )? Also you've mentioned about 4 PCeI MD. Does it means that modern work-station could have 4 GPU's in one home-like desktop ? According to my current task I suppose that 2 GPU's would be suitable for my simulations (assuming that I use typical ASUS MB and 650 Watt power unit). Have someone tried to use several GPU's on one workstation ? What attributes of MB should be taken into account for best performance on such multi-gpu station ? James 2013/5/25 lloyd riggs <lloyd.ri...@gmx.ch> > There's also these, but 1 chip runs 6K US, they can get performance up to > 2.3 teraflops per chip though double percission...but have no clue about > integration with GPU's...Intell also sells their chips on PCIe cards...but > get only about 350 Gflops, and run 1K US$. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array and vendor > http://www.xilinx.com/ > > They can design them though to fit a PCIe slot and run about the same, but > still need the board, ram etc... > > Mostly just to dream about, they say you can order them with radiation > shielding as well...so... > > Stephan Watkins > > *Gesendet:* Freitag, 24. Mai 2013 um 13:17 Uhr > *Von:* "James Starlight" <jmsstarli...@gmail.com> > *An:* "Discussion list for GROMACS users" <gmx-users@gromacs.org> > *Betreff:* [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation > Dear Gromacs Users! > > > I'd like to build new workstation for performing simulation on GPU with > Gromacs 4.6 native cuda support. > Recently I've used such setup with Core i5 cpu and nvidia 670 GTX video > and obtain good performance ( ~ 20 ns\day for typical 60.000 atom system > with SD integrator) > > > Now I'd like to build multi-gpu wokstation. > > My question - How much GPU would give me best performance on the typical > home-like workstation. What algorithm of Ncidia GPU integration should I > use (e.g SLI etc) ? > > > Thanks for help, > > > James > -- > gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org > http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > * Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! > * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > > -- > gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org > http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > * Please search the archive at > http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! > * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > -- gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists