AMBER 11 NVIDIA GPU
ACCELERATION SUPPORT
Benchmarks
Machine Specs
CPU = Dual x Quad Core Intel E5462
2.80 GHz
MPICH2.0 - 1.07
MKL 10.1.1.019
Ifort 10.1.018
GPU = Tesla C1060 /Tesla C2050 / GTX295
gfortran 4.1.2
nvcc v3.0
NVIDIA Driver Linux 64-195.36.20
Code Base = AMBER 11 Release
Precision Model = SPDP (GPU), Double Precision (CPU)
Benchmarks run with ECC turned OFF
on C2050 card. If you see approximately 10% less performance
than the numbers here then run the following (for each GPU)
as root:
nvidia-smi -g 0 --ecc-config=0
(repeat with -g x for each GPU
ID)
List of Benchmarks
Implicit Solvent (GB)
- TRPCage = 304 atoms
- Myoglobin = 2,492 atoms
- Nucleosome = 25,095 atoms
Explicit Solvent (PME)
- DHFR NVE = 23,558 atoms
- DHFR NPT = 23,558 atoms
- FactorIX NVE = 90,906 atoms
- Cellulose NVE = 408,609 atoms
You can download a tar file containing
the input files for all these benchmarks
here (62.3 MB).
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Implicit
Solvent GB Benchmarks
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1)
TRPCage = 304 atoms
&cntrl
imin=0,irest=1,ntx=5,
nstlim=100000,dt=0.002,ntb=0,
ntf=2,ntc=2,tol=0.000001,
ntpr=1000, ntwx=1000, ntwr=50000,
cut=9999.0, rgbmax=15.0,
igb=1,ntt=0,nscm=0,
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2)
Myoglobin = 2492 atoms
&cntrl
imin=0,irest=1,ntx=5,
nstlim=10000,dt=0.002,ntb=0,
ntf=2,ntc=2,tol=0.000001,
ntpr=1000, ntwx=1000, ntwr=50000,
cut=9999.0, rgbmax=15.0,
igb=1,ntt=0,nscm=0,
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3)
Nucleosome = 25095 atoms
&cntrl
imin=0,irest=1,ntx=5,
nstlim=1000,dt=0.002,ntb=0,
ntf=2,ntc=2,tol=0.000001,
ntpr=100, ntwx=100, ntwr=50000,
cut=9999.0, rgbmax=15.0,
igb=1,ntt=0,nscm=0,
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Explicit
Solvent PME Benchmarks
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1)
DHFR NVE = 23,558 atoms
Typical Production MD NVE with
GOOD energy conservation.
&cntrl
ntx=5, irest=1,
ntc=2, ntf=2, tol=0.000001,
nstlim=10000,
ntpr=1000, ntwx=1000,
ntwr=10000,
dt=0.002, cut=8.,
ntt=0, ntb=1, ntp=0,
ioutfm=1,
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&ewald
dsum_tol=0.000001,
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2)
DHFR NPT = 23,558 atoms
Typical Production MD NPT
&cntrl
ntx=5, irest=1,
ntc=2, ntf=2,
nstlim=10000,
ntpr=1000, ntwx=1000,
ntwr=10000,
dt=0.002, cut=8.,
ntt=1, tautp=10.0,
temp0=300.0,
ntb=2, ntp=1, taup=10.0,
ioutfm=1,
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3)
FactorIX NVE = 90,906 atoms
Typical Production MD NVE with
GOOD energy conservation.
&cntrl
ntx=5, irest=1,
ntc=2, ntf=2, tol=0.000001,
nstlim=10000,
ntpr=1000, ntwx=1000,
ntwr=10000,
dt=0.002, cut=8.,
ntt=0, ntb=1, ntp=0,
ioutfm=1,
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&ewald
dsum_tol=0.000001,nfft1=128,nfft2=64,nfft3=64,
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4)
Cellulose NVE = 408,609 atoms
Typical Production MD NVE with
GOOD energy conservation.
&cntrl
ntx=5, irest=1,
ntc=2, ntf=2, tol=0.000001,
nstlim=10000,
ntpr=1000, ntwx=1000,
ntwr=10000,
dt=0.002, cut=8.,
ntt=0, ntb=1, ntp=0,
ioutfm=1,
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&ewald
dsum_tol=0.000001,
nfft1=256,nfft2=128,nfft3=128,
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