Hi,
Why not run a competition testing the performance of the plethora
of MD codes? How about testing them for consistency of results at the
same time? If AMBER hosts it then we can lay down the ground rules
like trajectory file writing frequencies. Otherwise we have the
current situation where no one knows who has the fastest code given a
particular situation. DEShaw is going to smoke us all... ;-)! This is
a problem in the QM area as well (the code that one cannot benchmark
doesn't help the situation here).
Kennie
On Feb 28, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Adrian Roitberg wrote:
> Robert Duke wrote:
>> Yong -
>> Don't fret about the ntwx 250; it is a matter of history, and as
>> we move forward we can change it to look more competitive. I have
>> kept the values so far in the factor ix benchmark for backward
>> compatibility with older results. Also, by cranking the write
>> frequency up, I actually am actively looking to push the disk i/o
>> a bit harder to see where it will be a bottleneck (so if I can get
>> away with ntwx 250 at 300 processors, then I should be able to get
>> away with ntwx 1000 on 1200 processors). I do feel that it is
>> really only a fair benchmark if you DO write a trajectory though,
>> as most folks want at least a trajectory. If we handle our file i/
>> o efficiently, then we can end up having a competitive advantage
>> here (so the guys competing against us need to write trajectories
>> too).
>> Regards - Bob
> I agree with Bob, BUT (big one also) the 'guys competing against
> us' might not be writing as often, and it is unlikely we can
> convince them to run fair benchmarks.
> So, it would be cool if you could rerun the benchmarks writing
> every 500 or 1000 steps and tell us what they look like, so we can
> show off your stuff !
>
>
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