I am using this one to host a Titan X (Pascal), connected to a Lenovo P50
through Thunderbolt 3 interface. Works well so far (one month).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XKKSNTS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?i
e=UTF8&psc=1
Taisung
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Roitberg [mailto:roitberg.ufl.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 5:47 PM
To: AMBER Developers Mailing List <amber-developers.ambermd.org>
Subject: Re: [AMBER-Developers] external GPU
Thanks!
Not quite what I needed, but it helps.
Exact case is:
State of the art new iMac, and they want to tun amber in gpus. So, the only
option is to buy an external box, and go through thunderbolt.
thanks
On 5/18/17 5:40 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
> What do you mean by 'external'?
>
> Do you mean sitting in a breakout box with a PCI-e cable going to the
motherboard of the server? If yes that works fine - performance is identical
since it's logically equivalent to having the GPUs plugged into the physical
PCI-e slots. Multi-GPU as long as they can do P2P and sit on the same PLX
switch should also be the same. That said the connections for these break
out boxes can be super fragile. Plug them in in the rack, get it working
reliably and then NEVER touch anything in the vicinity again is my advice.
If it's in a rack people keep accessing, recabling etc it will have you
pulling your hair out.
>
> If you mean something entirely different then the answer is I've never
tried it but would be interested to understand what you are referring to.
>
> All the best
> Ross
>
>> On May 18, 2017, at 5:23 PM, Adrian Roitberg <roitberg.ufl.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there
>>
>> Without answering with: "Why would you want to do do that???"
>>
>> Has anyone played with running amber on a server but using and
>> external GPUs ? I would be interested in any results you can share,
>> be it price, how hard it was to do, and performance.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> adrian
>>
>>
>>
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