Benchmarks

Benchmark results for CYANA 3.0:

Computer system	Number of processors (cores)	Computation time (s)
		Basic	Auto	Test suite
Laptop	1	?	?	?
Desktop (intel)	1	228	?	?
	4	62	?	?
Desktop (gfortran)	1	326	?	?
	4	?	?	?
Mac mini (intel)	2	87	4092	14977
Mac mini (gfortran)	2	?	?	?
Server	1	144	?	?
	10	16	762	2997
	20	10	420	1623
	50	5	221	807
	100	5	152	529

December 2008

Computer systems:

• Laptop: Laptop computer with 1 Intel Core 2 Duo L7800 dual-core CPU, 2.00 Ghz, 2.0 GB memory, Cygwin under Windows Vista, g95 Fortran compiler.

• Desktop: Desktop computer with 1 Intel Core 2 Q6600 quad-core CPU, 2.40 Ghz, 3.0 GB memory, Ubuntu 8.04 Linux, Intel or gfortran (-O3) Fortran compiler.

• Server: Linux cluster system with 20 nodes, each having 2 Intel Xeon E5462 quad-core CPUs, 2.80 Ghz, 16 GB memory, Ubuntu 8.04 Linux, Intel Fortran compiler, OpenMPI.

• Mac mini: Mac mini with 1 Intel Core 2 Duo dual-core CPU, 2.53 Ghz, 4.0 GB memory, Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard), Intel or gfortran (-O3) Fortran compiler.

Benchmark types:

• Basic: Structure calculation of a protein with 114 amino acid residues, 1737 NOE distance restraints, 110 torsion angle restraints. 50 conformers are calculated using 4000 torsion angle dynamics steps per conformer.

• Auto: Structure calculation with automated NOESY assignment of a protein with 114 amino acid residues, 4732 NOESY cross peaks, 88 torsion angle restraints. 8 x 100 = 800 conformers are calculated using 10000 torsion angle dynamics steps per conformer.

• Test suite: Complete CYANA 3.0 test suite, comprising the 'basic' and 'auto' calculations, as well as structure calculations for homodimers, structure calculations using RDCs, pseudocontact shifts, etc.