Performance improvements¶
Optimized PME force transfers for multi-GPU runs with GPU-aware MPI¶
When using a GPU build with an (external) GPU-aware MPI library, the transfer of PME force data between GPUs has been optimized to use non-blocking MPI calls, improving performance by up to around 5%.
More permissive AWH histogram equilibration check¶
The AWH histogram equilibration check, which is recommended to be used with multiple walkers, used a too strict tolerance of 20% maximum deviation. This tolerance can now be set by the user and the default value is 50%. This value provide significantly faster convergence when using multiple walkers. Since it does not deteriorate the convergence with a single walkers, the histogram equilibration check is now turned on by default.