Computational Chemistry Benchmarks - Nvidia
Computational Chemistry Benchmarks - Nvidia
Computational Chemistry Benchmarks - Nvidia
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Energy Expended (kJ)<br />
K20 - Greener: Twice The Science Per Watt<br />
1200000<br />
1000000<br />
800000<br />
Energy Used in Simulating 1 Nanosecond of ApoA1<br />
Lower is better<br />
Running NAMD version 2.9<br />
Each blue node contains Dual E5-2687W<br />
CPUs (95W, 4 Cores per CPU).<br />
Each green node contains 2x Intel Xeon X5550<br />
CPUs (95W, 4 Cores per CPU) and 2x NVIDIA<br />
K20 GPUs (225W per GPU)<br />
600000<br />
400000<br />
Energy Expended<br />
= Power x Time<br />
200000<br />
0<br />
1 Node 1 Node + 2x K20<br />
Cut down energy usage by ½ with GPUs<br />
36<br />
NAMD Benchmark Report, Revision 2.0, dated Nov. 5, 2012