[gmx-users] mdrun_mpi on SGI

[David van der Spoel]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Xiaomin luo wrote:

>Dear GMX users,
>
>I had a problem while using mpi version of mdrun on SGI Origin 3200 with
>4 CPU, mdrun_mpi was invoked by such command
>mpirun -np 2 mdrun_mpi ... -nice 0
>
>But most time, the two processes were sleeping, and it's even slower
>than running in sequential with 1 CPU.
>Can someone help me? Thanks.
I assume that's SGI MPI? Is the machine loaded with jobs? In that case it
may just be that the jobs are waiting for each other all the time.
Try to run it on an empty machine.


Groeten, David.
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