Re: [gmx-users] Running GROMACS on mini GPU cluster

2013-07-29 Thread Szilárd Páll
The message is perfectly normal. When you do not use all available cores/hardware threads (seen as "CPUs" by the OS), to avoid potential clashes, mdrun does not pin threads (i.e. it lets the OS migrate threads). On NUMA systems (most multi-CPU machines), this will cause performance degradation as w

Re: [gmx-users] Running GROMACS on mini GPU cluster

2013-07-25 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/25/13 6:09 PM, Tim Moore wrote: I am running GROMACS 4.6.2 on a GPU cluster in our reasearch group. I am trying to bench mark some systems, and I am getting this message: NOTE: The number of threads is not equal to the number of (logical) cores and the -pin option is set to auto:

[gmx-users] Running GROMACS on mini GPU cluster

2013-07-25 Thread Tim Moore
I am running GROMACS 4.6.2 on a GPU cluster in our reasearch group. I am trying to bench mark some systems, and I am getting this message: NOTE: The number of threads is not equal to the number of (logical) cores and the -pin option is set to auto: will not pin thread to cores. This c