[gmx-users] mdrun with mpich

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Thu Feb 2 15:36:18 CET 2006


Pradeep Kota wrote:
> Thank you for your response Mr.David. I compiled lam successfully 
> without fortran support. all i wanted to know was whether it would make 
> any difference to the running time of gromacs. I am curious because, it 
> is well-known that fortran loops are faster than loops of other 
> languages..so, i wanted to clarify ! moreover, i would want to know how 
> different this is, from mpich.
> thanks for the support.

this is not the case for gromacs, except on old architectures like DEC 
alpha. For G5 and x86 processors C is fastest due to assembly code.


> regards,
> kota.
> 
> On 2/2/06, *David van der Spoel* <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se 
> <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>> wrote:
> 
>     Pradeep Kota wrote:
>      > Thank you for your response, itamar..but the cluster isolated
>     from the
>      > internet for security reasons. i dont think there is any chance
>     to use
>      > fink on the head node either. any other alternatives?
>      > regards,
> 
>     compile LAM without fortran, there's a flag for it
> 
>      > kota.
>      >
>      > On 2/2/06, *Itamar Kass* <ikass at cc.huji.ac.il
>     <mailto:ikass at cc.huji.ac.il>
>      > <mailto: ikass at cc.huji.ac.il <mailto:ikass at cc.huji.ac.il>> > wrote:
>      >
>      >     Why not using fortan?
>      >     install it using Fink and let lam have it.
>      >
>      >        Itamar.
>      >
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>      >         ----- Original Message -----
>      >         *From:* Pradeep Kota <mailto: kotanmd at gmail.com
>     <mailto:kotanmd at gmail.com>>
>      >         *To:* Discussion list for GROMACS users
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>      >         *Sent:* Thursday, February 02, 2006 4:43 AM
>      >         *Subject:* [gmx-users] mdrun with mpich
>      >
>      >         Dear users,
>      >             I have compiled gromacs on our dual core mac os x G5
>      >         cluster, and tried running a simulation on a 540 residue
>     protein
>      >         for 1 ns on 8 processors. i used mpich as the mpi environment
>      >         for parallelising gromacs. it worked fine, and the job
>     was split
>      >         properly and assigned to nodes. now, the cpu usage per
>     processor
>      >         is not more than 50% on any of the processors. and the total
>      >         running time for this was 13hrs. though output is written
>      >         properly onto the specified output file, mdirun doesnot
>      >         terminate even after running through all the steps. it still
>      >         shows two mdrun_mpi processes running on the head node,
>     with a
>      >         0% cpu usage. was going through gmx-users mailing list and
>      >         somehow figured out that mpich is not a good idea for running
>      >         gromacs. so, i wanted to switch over to lam. now when i
>     complie
>      >         gromacs using lam, it is not able to link the libraries
>      >         properly. so, i tried reinstalling lam on my cluster.
>     now, lam
>      >         keeps complaining about not being able to find a fortran
>      >         compiler. i should not need a fortran compiler unless i'm
>     using
>      >         SUN or SGI for this purpose..(am i going wrong here?). what
>      >         flags do i need to compile lam with, in order to compile
>     gromacs
>      >         successfully? any help is very much appreciated..
>      >         thanks in advance,
>      >         regards,
>      >         kota.
>      >
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