[gmx-users] mdrun with mpich

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Thu Feb 2 17:23:37 CET 2006


Pradeep Kota wrote:
> thanks for the info, Mr.David.. but when i try to compile gromacs, it 
> returns an error. the following is an excerpt from the output of 'make'.
> 
seems like you have two different versions of fftw3 installed, or mixed 
single and double precision. Otherwise I don't know.



> /usr/local/lib/libfftw3f.a(the-planner.o) definition of 
> _fftwf_the_planner in section (__TEXT,__text)
> /usr/local/lib/libfftw3f.a(version.o) definition of _fftwf_cc in section 
> (__TEXT,__cstring)
> /usr/local/lib/libfftw3f.a(version.o) definition of _fftwf_codelet_optim 
> in section (__TEXT,__cstring)
> /usr/local/lib/libfftw3f.a(version.o) definition of _fftwf_version in 
> section (__TEXT,__cstring)
> /usr/bin/libtool: internal link edit command failed
> make[4]: *** [libgmx.la <http://libgmx.la>] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> i think Mr.Jack Howarth had already pointed the same thing out, sometime 
> back. any suggestion!?
> 
> regards,
> kota.
> 
> On 2/2/06, *Pradeep Kota* < kotanmd at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kotanmd at gmail.com>> 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.
>     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.
>>
>>     ===========================================
>>     | Itamar Kass
>>     | The Alexander Silberman
>>     | Institute of Life Sciences
>>     | Department of Biological Chemistry
>>     | The Hebrew University, Givat-Ram
>>     | Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
>>     | Tel: +972-(0)2-6585194
>>     | Fax: +972-(0)2-6584329
>>     | Email: 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>>
>>     | Net:
>>    
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>         <http://www.ls.huji.ac.il/%7Emembranelab/itamar/itamar_homepage.html>
>>     <
>         http://www.ls.huji.ac.il/%7Emembranelab/itamar/itamar_homepage.html>
>>     ============================================
>>
>>         ----- Original Message -----
>>         *From:* Pradeep Kota <mailto: kotanmd at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kotanmd at gmail.com>>
>>         *To:* Discussion list for GROMACS users
>>         <mailto: gmx-users at gromacs.org
>         <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>>
>>         *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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