[gmx-developers] Problem with qmmm and mpi combo (4.0.5)

[Åke Sandgren]

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 18:34 +0100, Christian Seifert wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I never managed to run GMX with MPI when using QMMM. I tried it with different 
> versions (also GMX 3). As Berk wrote, most of the time (in my case more than 
> 95%) the QM program has to calculate. I guess that running the MM part in QMMM 
> with multiple CPU will be even slower compared to MM part of QMMM on a single 
> CPU (because of communication overhead).
> So my decision was:
> I do not compile GMX_qmmm with mpi.

The thing is that i want to get the QM part to run with mpi (gamess-uk
to be specific) and then i need gromacs to do mpi too.

I'll experiment a bit with particle decomp instead.

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