[gmx-users] time estimation script

[Stéphane Téletchéa]

Martin Höfling a écrit :
> Am Dienstag, 27. Februar 2007 schrieb David van der Spoel:
> 
>> but it says at the bottom of the md.log file how many ns/day you will get.
> 
> ah ok, I know what you mean: Setting up a short run ~200 steps or so and then 
> parsing md.log file. That's a good idea. My solution would have been killing 
> mdrun, and parsing the last intact output line and then recalculate ns/day
> 
> Thx for this hint.
> 	Martin

This is what i've done with the script i've attached, but as a security, 
i would also recommend verifying the real time taken.

For instance, if you use a queuing system (PBS, SGE, ...) then you could 
look at the 'Wallclock' time. Most of the time the reported performance 
by gromacs (amber does the same) is over-estimated since it does not 
take into account some setup steps (but in your real life, you need 
them). The difference is not very important but from experience there is 
attention to port to it :-) (if there is a big discrepancy, you'll need 
to find why)

Stéphane

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