[gmx-developers] Gromacs-2016: Win64 quasi-portable

[Justin Lemkul]

On 10/2/16 5:42 PM, Boris Timofeev wrote:
>
> Good afternoon to all!
>
> I did a great job on compilation of the "portable" Gromacs-2016 version on the
> Win64  platform without cygwin with OpenCL support and  AVX_256/AVX2_256
> expansions. The project is builded on VS-2015. By small changes in CMakeLists, I
> managed to achieve that both the "embedded" tests, and regressiontests, are
> executed after assembly immediately from VS IDE. It was tested on Windows7/
> Windows10  with IntelCore i3, i5, i7  processors and video cards from Nvidia and
> AMD. So far it was not succeeded to win  - against the video card from Intel -
> Intel OpenCL compiler preprocessor is left unfinished, does not recognize
> directive "-I" and have buggy concatention (##) implementation.
> It was necessary to realize a primitive preprocessor,  became successful, but
> all the same calculations (tests and regressiontests) are wrong as it was
> already metioned here (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?
> id=94265#add_comment).
>
> If it is interesting to community, I am ready to report about some necessary
> changes in progect and to provide the main CMake-file.
>
> There are several questions to developers.
>
> 1. The nbnxn_ocl_kernel_nvidia.clh, nbnxn_ocl_kernel_nowarp.clh and
> nbnxn_ocl_kernel_amd.clh files, if to compare their with kdiff, differ only in
> comments and lack of unroll pragma for Nvidia. Why not to unite them in one?
> Where the promised optimization?
>
> 2. Why in the Gromacs'a code so many paths to files are embedded up? To start
> tests without development environment on other computer it is necessary to copy
> practically all project.
>
> 3. A question "on science". When performing an example of
> http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin/gmx-tutorials/lysozyme/01_pdb2gmx.html,
>  pdb2gmx for the aminoacid residue  HIS ("HIZE-branch" on stdout ), unlike all
> others residue,  gives a nonintegral charge 0.883,  inexplicable with round-off
> errors.
> Whether there is no program mistake here?
>

I can't speak to points 1 and 2, but here: what is HIZE-branch?  I've never 
heard of that.  Note, too, that if you're working with a single amino acid with 
OPLS-AA, you can't rely on the default terminus selection.  You need to choose 
the zwitterion termini, otherwise the charges will be junk because OPLS-AA makes 
changes to CA depending on whether the residue is a zwitterion or in a polypeptide.

-Justin

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