2H 2015

Comparative Performance
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AMBER* 14
Particle Mesh Ewald (PME) Cellulose NPT
AMBER* 14 PME Cellulose NPT (408K Atoms)
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1.14X 1.11X
1.37X
2 nodes 3 nodes
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v2 (baseline)
Xeon E5-2697 v2 + Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor 7120A
Xeon E5-2697 v2 + NVIDIA* K40 DPFP
1.57X
1.32X
“Xeon E5-2697 v2” = Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v2
CLUSTER BENCHMARK
Application: AMBER* 14
3 NODES
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC PRESENTATION
Description: Bimolecular Simulations (Protein, DNA, RNA, virus
etc.). Full double precision (DPDP). More at http://ambermd.org/
Availability:
• Code: Available as a patch.
• Recipe: Available here (Section 18.7 of the manual).
Usage Model:
• Baseline is on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v2 host only
(also measured in
http://ambermd.org/gpus/benchmarks.htm#Benchmarks) and
speed up is shown with offload processing on both the Intel
Xeon processor E5-2697 v2 and the Intel® Xeon Phi
coprocessor 7120A.
• Performance shown is for the released code, double precision
across the platforms, 50% workload on the host, 50% on the
coprocessor.
Highlights: The code had been optimized, will be delivered to the
AMBER community (whoever has license) and available as update
patch during code configuration.
Results: Optimized offload process demonstrated compelling
cluster performance improvement, up to 2.6X, over the baseline
Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2697 v2.
For configuration details, go here.
SOURCE: INTEL MEASURED RESULTS AS OF SEPTEMBER, 2014
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems,
components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated
purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more information go to http://www.intel.com/performance *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others
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