[molpro-user] MOLPRO experiences with dual core Opteron machines

[Gershom (Jan M.L.) Martin]

Dear MOLPRO users and gurus:

Do any of you have experience/benchmark data/... for MOLPRO running on 
dual-core Opteron machines, particularly compared to an equivalent 
number of single-core CPUs.
(E.g., two Opteron 246s compared with a single Opteron 275,...)

What I am trying to figure out is if MOLPRO suffers from memory access 
contention on the dual-core chip. (The two cores on a dual-core Opteron 
share a single memory access channel, while two separate CPUs each have 
their own. Each core does have its own cache.)

Thanks very much in advance!
Jan Martin

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Gershom (Jan M.L.) Martin   /  Baroness Thatcher Professor of Chemistry
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    and Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Molecular Design
Dept. of Organic Chemistry  /  Weizmann Institute of Science
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