charmm scalability on 2.4 kernels

[Peter H. Koenig]

  Hello,
 
  Bogdan Costescu wrote:
 
  > That is actually what I have observed during the last 3 years of
running
  > different versions of kernels, MPI libraries and CHARMM. Running
using
  > only one transport (TCP or shared mem) is always better than mixing
them,
  > f.e (using LAM-6.5.6):
  >
  > CPUs    nodes   real time (min)         transports
  > 4       4       5.95                    TCP
  > 4       2       7.08                    TCP+USYSV
  >
  > As you can see, the difference is quite significant.
 
  Do you also have the numbers for 2 dual nodes using only TCP ?
 
  Peter Koenig