Effect of Ubuntu installation on SD card on the simulation speed

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GROMACS version:2022.3

Hi all,

Can Ubuntu installation on an SD card reduce the speed of simulation?

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Do you mean installing Ubuntu itself on an SD card? Unless you have extreme amounts of disk activity from the OS itself in the background while writing GROMACS output it should have no noticeable effect.

Running GROMACS from an installation on an SD card would also not make any noticeable difference.

If you are writing extreme amounts of data from you simulations you might be able to see a difference if your output is written to an SDD, but in that case it would be better to have a look at your mdp settings.

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