[gmx-users] REMD and mpi

[pascal.baillod at epfl.ch]

Dear community,

I am currently testing the gromacs-3.3 implementation of REMD and have the
following questions..

1) Is it possible to write the different REMD trajectories on different
locations? I would be interested in writing the trajectories locally, that is,
on the disk next to the compute node, on a machine that dose not have fast
switches. If that is not possible, is there any benchmark on the bottleneck
created by many compute nodes writing REMD data on a same disk, on a machine
that dose not have fast switches (max 1gbps)?

2) I have tried running NPT-REMD with 3 replicas, at 300, 305 and 310 K. The
barostat of my 3 .mdp input files has rep_p = 1.0. I get the following error
message:
Fatal error:
The reference pressure decreases with increasing temperature

If I do the same test with the first 2 replicas only (300 and 305K), I do not
get this error message and things seem to run fine. 

3) Is there any script to get statistics of swaps? In order to compute the
temperature series visited by a replica, for example..

Thank you very much for your help!

Pascal





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