MOLECULAR DYNAMICS PERFORMANCE GUIDE - Digital Research Alliance of CANADA

BENCHMARK DETAILS

ID=299

  • Dataset: 9naw
  • Software: GROMACS.cuda.mpi (gromacs/2024.4-gofbc-2023a-avx512)
  • Resource: 1 tasks, 12 cores, 1 nodes, 1 GPUs, with NVLink
  • CPU: EPYC 9454 (Genoa), 2.75 GHz
  • GPU: NVidia-H100-HBM3-80GB, 12 cores/GPU
  • Simulation speed: 17.848 ns/day
  • Efficiency: 100.0 %
  • Site: Fir
  • Date: Dec. 28, 2025, 4:13 a.m.
  • Submission script:
    #!/bin/bash
    #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=4000 --time=1:0:0 -c12 --ntasks=1 --gpus=h100:1

    module load StdEnv/2023 gcc/12.3 openmpi/4.1.5 cuda/12.2 gromacs/2024.4


    WORKDIR=`pwd`
    cp * $SLURM_TMPDIR
    cd $SLURM_TMPDIR

    gmx mdrun \
    -ntomp $SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK \
    -nb gpu \
    -pme gpu \
    -update gpu \
    -bonded gpu \
    -noconfout \
    -nstlist 300 \
    -s topol.tpr

    cp md.log $WORKDIR
  • Notes:
  • Simulation input file:
    title                   = benchmark 
    ; Run parameters
    integrator = md
    nsteps = 100000
    dt = 0.002
    ; Output control
    nstxout = 0
    nstvout = 0
    nstfout = 0
    nstenergy = 1000
    nstlog = 500
    nstxout-compressed = 5000
    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 = 324
    fourier-ny = 324
    fourier-nz = 324
    ; 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