Biowulf: Molecular Dynamics and Parallel Computation Susan Chacko Scientific Computing Branch, Division of Computer System Services CIT, NIH
Apolipoprotein A1 92,000 atoms 26.4 days/ns on one cpu 71,000 years / ms
Parallelization by domain decomposition
High-performance, low latency networking on Biowulf Myrinet p (Intel Pentium, 450 MHz) p (AMD Athlon, 1.4 GHz) p (AMD Athlon, 1.4 GHz) p (Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz) p (AMD Opteron, 2.0 GHz) p (AMD Opteron, 2.2 GHz) Infiniband p (AMD Opteron, 2.8 GHz) p (AMD Opteron, 2.8 GHz) p (Intel EMT 64, 2.8 GHz)
Apoa1 benchmark (NAMD)
70 ns simulation of PEVK PME water box simulation 340 Å 70 Å 53 Å atoms, 84 amino acids Gige nodes days/ns 48 CPUs = 57.5 days Ipath nodes days/ns 100 CPUs = 12.5 days Unpublished J.G. Forbes and K. Wang LMB/NIAMS
7 Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus (STMV) 1.06 Million atoms 200 days/ns on 1 cpu
9 Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus (STMV) 1.06 Million atoms 200 days/ns on 1 cpu 1 day/ns on 256 IB processors