[gmx-users] Re: Background run

[Pim Schravendijk]

Running mpirun in the background works with, for example: 
mpirun -np 2 ./a.out < /dev/null > output &

(where ./a.out should be replaced with mdrun of course)

just look at the examples in the manpage

http://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/compute/mpirun.cgi

> From: Jeffrey Chua <chuademon at gmail.com>
> 
> dear friends,
>  Another problem im having are doing background runs for gromacs. When we 
> run other programs in our cluster (11 nodes), we usually just put "&" and it 
> runs in the background. But in gromacs, although we placed the "&" at the 
> end, once you close the terminal you were using, the run also exits. How can 
> i do a background run for gromacs? we are using mpich for the cluster.
>  thanks.

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Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
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