MOLECULAR DYNAMICS PERFORMANCE GUIDE - Digital Research Alliance of CANADA

BENCHMARK DETAILS

ID=242

  • Dataset: 6n4o
  • Software: GROMACS.cuda.mpi (gromacs/2024.1-gofbfc-2023a-avx512)
  • Resource: 2 tasks, 12 cores, nodes, 2 GPUs, with NVLink
  • CPU: Xeon Gold 5418Y (Sapphire Rapids), 3.8 GHz
  • GPU: NVIDIA-H100 NVL-94GB, 12 cores/GPU
  • Simulation speed: 148.586 ns/day
  • Efficiency: 50.0 %
  • Site: Argo
  • Date: Oct. 5, 2024, 1:31 p.m.
  • Submission script:

    #!/bin/bash
    #SBATCH --ntasks=2 --mem-per-cpu=1000 -c12
    #SBATCH --gpus-per-task=h100:1 --time=0:30:0 --partition=gpu_general

    ml StdEnv/2023 gcc/12.3 openmpi/4.1.5 cuda/12.2 gromacs/2024.1

    srun gmx mdrun -ntomp ${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK:-1} \
    -nb gpu -pme gpu -update gpu -bonded cpu -s topol.tpr

  • Notes:

    (ns/day) (hour/ns)
    Performance: 148.019 0.162
    Performance: 148.586 0.162
    Performance: 148.343 0.162

  • Simulation input file:

    title = benchmark
    ; Run parameters
    integrator = md
    nsteps = 400000
    dt = 0.001
    ; Output control
    nstxout = 0
    nstvout = 0
    nstfout = 0
    nstenergy = 10000
    nstlog = 10000
    nstxout-compressed = 50000
    compressed-x-grps = System
    ; Bond parameters
    continuation = yes
    constraint_algorithm = lincs
    constraints = h-bonds

    ; Neighborsearching
    cutoff-scheme = Verlet
    ns_type = grid
    nstlist = 10
    rcoulomb = 0.8
    rvdw = 0.8
    DispCorr = Ener ; anaytic VDW correction
    ; Electrostatics
    coulombtype = PME
    pme_order = 4
    fourier-nx = 144
    fourier-ny = 144
    fourier-nz = 144
    ; Temperature coupling is on
    tcoupl = V-rescale
    tc-grps = system
    tau_t = 0.1
    ref_t = 300
    ; Pressure coupling is on
    pcoupl = Parrinello-Rahman
    pcoupltype = isotropic
    tau_p = 2.0
    ref_p = 1.0
    compressibility = 4.5e-5
    ; Periodic boundary conditions
    pbc = xyz
    ; Velocity generation
    gen_vel = no