[gmx-users] GROMACS compilation problem on IBM AIX

David spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Mon Feb 3 18:02:42 CET 2003


On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 18:56, Erik Lindahl wrote:
> 
> On Monday, Feb 3, 2003, at 09:43 US/Pacific, David van der Spoel wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:16, Gerrit Groenhof wrote:
> >> Hi Jithesh,
> >>
> >> I am not sure, but from your benchmark it seems gromacs is not
> >> compiled properly. I had the same problem on an IBM SP3 (4?). changing
> >> the optimization from O3 to O2 did the trick. What also works is to
> >> change from the IBM xlc compiler to the gnu gcc compiler.
> >>
> > And it is also very important to check that all libraries are compiled
> > with the same options (for hardware specifics: the processor type). If
> > you compile part for power3 (e.g. fftw) and part for power4 (gromacs)
> > your simulations will die.
> >
> > Check an option in fftw compilation, it could be that they default for
> > the wrong architecture.,
> 
> Yeah, but I think it will just default to pwr2 which should be fine 
> (although not as fast).
> 
> There might indeed be a problem with the IBM compilers; if anybody can 
> provide
> access to a power4 system I'll have a go at debugging it.
Yes we did that on a machine in Norway, you need to use power4
throughout, it can not be mixed with power2.

>
-- 
Groeten, David.
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