[gmx-developers] repeatability of runs?

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Mon Feb 16 08:27:30 CET 2015


On 2015-02-16 04:31, Shirts, Michael R. (mrs5pt) wrote:
> Hi, all-
>
> Is anyone else having issues with repeatability of runs?  When I start
> from the same tpr using one thread (to avoid load rebalancing) on the same
> machine, I find that it diverges after the first step.  It appears to be
> an issue with the virial.  Any thoughts?  It seems like the code should be
> binary repeatable at this level.  Makes it hard to debug a problem!
Did you try the -reprod option?
>
> Best,
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Michael Shirts
> Associate Professor
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> University of Virginia
> michael.shirts at virginia.edu
> (434) 243-1821
>


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