[gmx-users] "Lam" is not required for running parallel job

[mark.abraham at anu.edu.au]

----- Original Message -----
From: sunita at chem.iitb.ac.in
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:40 pm
Subject: [gmx-users] "Lam" is not required for running parallel job
To: gmx-users at gromacs.org

> Dear Users,
> 
> Lam doesn't seem to be essential for running parallel job.

An MPI library is essential.

> Because in one of our Xeon machine with quardcore 1.6 Ghz 
> processor and
> with 6 nodes we installed parallel version of gromacs (version 
> 3.3.1) and
> its running without any problem. Lam is not installed in this machine
> still it is running the parallel job.

How are you running grompp and mdrun, and what makes you think the calculation is running in parallel?
 
> Is it taken care in the newer gromacs version that lam is not 
> required?

No.

Mark