[gmx-developers] last days for 5.1

[Kutzner, Carsten]

Hi,

I wanted to quickly report back on tune_pme for 5.1, what are the issues
so we could discuss on how best to proceed.

In principle, tune_pme works, however as a user one may have to set extra
options so that actually tuning can be done.

The issues are:

a) A valid mdrun executable needs to be specified first, see:
https://gerrit.gromacs.org/#/c/4771/

b) On GPU nodes, mdrun typically segfaults, due to timers not being reset
at a neighborsearching step, see:
and http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1781 

c) One needs to specify -ntomp somevalue, otherwise it is 1 by default
and mdrun refuses to run.

Issue b) is probably the most important one to address, which could be either
done in mdrun or in tune_pme. 
Tune_pme would have to determine from the .tpr what the actual neighborsearching
frequency will be and adjust the counter resetting appropriately.

Carsten

 

> On 05 Aug 2015, at 16:45, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:30 PM Kutzner, Carsten <ckutzne at gwdg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On 05 Aug 2015, at 16:15, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We changed some default behaviour for how mdrun picks things like numbers of cores per rank, etc. Carsten, can you please try a low-key gmx tune_pme run to see we haven’t broken things there?
> Sure - anything particular worth needing a closer look?
> 
> Not that I can think of, but tune_pme does try mdrun's default, and it would be nice to know that that doesn't fail / run slowly / look stupid / parse badly / etc.
> 
> Mark
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