Re: [gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q

2013-06-04 Thread Mark Abraham
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Jianguo Li wrote: > >> >> >> Thank you, Mark and Xavier. >> >> The thing is that the cluster manager set the >> minimum number of cores of each jobs in Bluegene/Q is 128, so I can not >> use 64 cores. But

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q

2013-06-04 Thread Mark Abraham
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Jianguo Li wrote: > > > Thank you, Mark and Xavier. > > The thing is that the cluster manager set the > minimum number of cores of each jobs in Bluegene/Q is 128, so I can not > use 64 cores. But according to the performance, 512 cores in Bluegene > roughly equival

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q

2013-06-04 Thread Jianguo Li
e a optimized number for --ntasks-per-node? Cheers Jianguo From: Mark Abraham To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Cc: Jianguo Li Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 22:32 Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q On Tue, Jun 4, 2

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q

2013-06-04 Thread Jianguo Li
on list for GROMACS users Cc: Sent: Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 22:20 Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q BG CPUs are generally much slower (clock whose) but scale better. You should try to run on 64 CPUs on the Blue gene too for faire comparison. The number of CPUs per n

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q

2013-06-04 Thread Mark Abraham
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:20 PM, XAvier Periole wrote: > > BG CPUs are generally much slower (clock whose) but scale better. > > You should try to run on 64 CPUs on the Blue gene too for faire comparison. > The number of CPUs per nodes is also an important factor: the more CPUs > per nodes the mor

Re: [gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q

2013-06-04 Thread XAvier Periole
BG CPUs are generally much slower (clock whose) but scale better. You should try to run on 64 CPUs on the Blue gene too for faire comparison. The number of CPUs per nodes is also an important factor: the more CPUs per nodes the more communications needs to be done. I observed a significant slow

[gmx-users] Performance of Gromacs-4.6.1 on BlueGene/Q

2013-06-04 Thread Jianguo Li
Dear All, Has anyone has Gromacs benchmark on Bluegene/Q? I recently installed gromacs-461 on BG/Q using the following command: cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=BlueGeneQ-static-XL-C \   -DGMX_BUILD_OWN_FFTW=ON \ -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \ -DGMX_XML=OFF \ -DCMAKE