[gmx-users] Who uses Gromacs on Power4 ?

[David van der Spoel]

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 00:57, Marc Baaden wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> thanks for all your answers and suggestions.
> 
> I have recompiled with the suggested options, but with continuing (although
> for now different) error.
> 
> I wanted to choose an extremely simple test system, and I used the water
> example from the tutorial, trying to run on just a single processor.\
> The error is different, but again occurs before
> or at the very first time step:

> 
> So I think the tpr file is read incorrectly (the very same file runs absolutely
> fine with eg mdrun from gmx321 under linux).
> 
> Could this have something todo with 32 vs 64 bit ? (eg mis-interpreting/reading
> of the tpr data)
> 
> I have tried both a tpr generated on a linux box and a tpr generated on the
> power4 .. same error.

the tpr can be compared using gmxcheck -s1 -s2 or dumped using gmxdump,
allowing you to test tpr reading on IBM.

Apart from further compilation errors (e.g. compiling for power2 and
running on power4 or vice versa) I can not come up with further
explanations. What happens when you compile with -g ?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Marc
-- 
David.
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