Hi guys~

I'm having some problems running my Mr. Bayes 3.2.1 (a bioinformatics program for the calculation of Bayesian inference) on an Nvidia GPU (rather than CPU). It is said that running analyses using the GPU would be much faster than by using the CPU, but that's not the case for my system lol....
I've searched through the internet and couldn't find much info on how to go about this, hence I'm trying my luck here to see whether there are any bioinfo sifus here who are familiar with this~

Nvidia GPU - GT555m
Nvidia driver version - 295.73

Mr. Bayes 3.2.1 download site: http://mrbayes.sourceforge.net/download.php

I hope someone would be able to help me out, thanks thanks

what kind of trouble are you facing, compiling it ,or it doesnt seems to work? have you try this?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrbayes-gp...latest/download

Thanks for the reply bro
I din't think anyone here would know what I'm asking also haha

The one from your link is a different type of Mr Bayes (Mr Bayes GPU), the algorithms there are slightly lesser/ different than the standard one iinm

Anyway I've managed to set up the original Mr. Bayes 3.2.1 to run on the GPU... but weirdly its a whole lot slower than when running on CPU... which is very, very weird

on which platform are you running it on? i guess beagle is still buggy,depending on cards model, been using the mpi version for quite awhile...using 64 cores...pretty much do the job.
anyway . anyway here is a good article to share regarding comparative models http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/60/5/685

This post has been edited by herofire86: Apr 29 2012, 08:03 PM

Running on Windows 7 (64-bit)?
I don't think my GPU is supported... I've tried F@H with my GPU before and its a hell lot faster than my CPU, which is why its quite weird for it to not perform similarly on Mr. Bayes
If GPU works faster and better, that'll affect the choices of laptops/ workstations we choose later on..

And thanks alot for the article
I'd probably need some time to digest the info there
I'm a little bit outdated in the phylogenetic programs used, especially those pertaining to ML lol

owh , tweaking it under windows 7 may have some limitation, to play around with the sourcecode and library, unix/linux based platform have more freedom to do so.


yup , gpu now seems to be still understandardised, ,if only we can work on a universal interpreter, that can act as emulator to every comp that equipped with gpu, not just for specific software or hardware. kinda like javavm,

Too deep already bro, I don't understand haha~
Are you a programmer? You seemed to know quite a lot haha

I'm just an end-user

well.... not really a hardcore programmer . im just a bioinformatics enthusiast