[Beowulf] Re: Problems scaling performance to more than one node, GbE

Mike Davis jmdavis1 at vcu.edu
Tue Feb 17 12:14:31 PST 2009


> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Tiago Marques wrote:
>
>> I must ask, doesn't anybody on this list run like 16 cores on two 
>> nodes well, for a code and job that completes like in a week?
For GROMACS do a google search on GROMACS parallel scaling. Switch setup 
and utilization plays a major role in how the code scales.


Mike

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