I just completed setting up my egpu setup for exediting GROMACS MD simulations. I have seen quite a few post here and there regarding this. So, I thought it would be a good idea to share my experiences.
I bought:
1. Zotac GTX1050TI OC edition- 200$
2. EXP GDC Beast 8.4D mPCIe- 31$
3. A local premium grade 500W power supply- 12$
I had an old reliable Lenovo Z510 and sacrificed my wlan card. Put the adapter there and changed the BIOS graphics mode to UMA only. Working fine, got almost an 80% boost.
Dear Souparno Adhikary
its very good idea
but I suggest you that use cool pad for decreasing temperature of cpu .
But if used continuously....
The laptop battery will be damaged
The laptop keyboard will be damaged
and....
And ... It came to the conclusion that it is better to have a PC .
good luck
Yes, I agree. It's always better to have a pc, but I wanted my own portable simstation. So... Yeah, I use a 5 fan cooling pad.
Wow, .I always wanted to do that, but i was scared that i would blow up my laptop. because i have seen people blowing up their laptop while doing simple docking.
Since you have already taken the risk it would be great if you could run couple of simulations and share your experience. By the way whats the simulation time you are using? Whats the peak temperature of your CPU?
Well, probably they tried to dock a meth molecule with a CB1 receptor, :D
Dear Dr. Souprano,
Even though the trick you applied to fasten the speed of your MD simulation could give some achievements, however, I highly recommend you to avoid doing such works because there is a possibility you lose your laptop. You can turn your trick into a P.C. to reach the expected results. Of course, you could also purchase an account from online MD servers to do your simulations easily instead of that work your laptop linked to an external graphic card!
Hope to see your success more and more.
Have a whale of time.
HR
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