[gmx-users] very strange domain composition statistics
Mark Abraham
Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Fri Jul 31 02:40:30 CEST 2009
Jennifer Williams wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I am having some problems when running in parallel. Although my jobs run
> to completion I am getting some worrying domain decomposition statistics
> in particular the average load imbalance and the performance loss due to
> load imbalance see below:
Please report your GROMACS version number. If it's not the latest
(4.0.5), then you should probably update and see if it's a problem that
may have been fixed between those releases. You might also try it
without your freeze groups, especially if they dominate the system.
> D O M A I N D E C O M P O S I T I O N S T A T I S T I C S
>
> av. #atoms communicated per step for force: 2 x 1974.8
> av. #atoms communicated per step for LINCS: 2 x 15.2
>
> Average load imbalance: 500.0 %
> Part of the total run time spent waiting due to load imbalance:
> 4246403072.0 %
> Steps where the load balancing was limited by -rdd, -rcon and/or -dds:
> X 9 %
>
> NOTE: 4246403072.0 % performance was lost due to load imbalance
> in the domain decomposition.
>
> R E A L C Y C L E A N D T I M E A C C O U N T I N G
>
> Computing: Nodes Number G-Cycles Seconds %
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Write traj. 6 1001 18443320139.164 42130.9 100.0
> Update 6 1000001 18442922984.491 42130.0 100.0
> Rest 6 9223372036.855 21069.4 50.0
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Total 6 18446422611.669 42138.0 100.0
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> NOTE: 305 % of the run time was spent communicating energies,
> you might want to use the -nosum option of mdrun
>
> Parallel run - timing based on wallclock.
>
> NODE (s) Real (s) (%)
> Time: 7023.000 7023.000 100.0
> 1h57:03
> (Mnbf/s) (GFlops) (ns/day) (hour/ns)
> Performance: 14.214 1.902 12.302 1.951
> Finished mdrun on node 0 Wed Jul 29 23:47:18 2009
>
>
>
> Below is my .mdp file: I am using the PME but not having much of a feel
> for how to set the options under Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid, I
> left these as the default values. Could this be where the trouble lies?
>
> My cut-off cannot be larger than 0.9 as my unit cell is only 18.2A in
> one direction.
>
> How do I choose values for PME/PPPM? Ie what kind of values to use for
> nx, ny and nz ?
See manual section 3.17.5
> I read that they should be divisible by npme to get the best
> performance. Is npme the pme_order in the .mdp file? If not where do I
> set this parameter?
No, -npme is a command line parameter to mdrun. Roughly speaking, things
that have a material effect on the physics are specified in the .mdp
file, and things that either require external file(names) to be supplied
or which only affect the implementation of the physics are specified on
the command line.
Mark
> Much appreciated,
>
> Jenny
>
>
>
> ; VARIOUS PREPROCESSING OPTIONS
> ; Preprocessor information: use cpp syntax.
> ; e.g.: -I/home/joe/doe -I/home/mary/hoe
> include = -I../top
> ; e.g.: -DI_Want_Cookies -DMe_Too
> define =
>
> ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS
> integrator = md
> ; Start time and timestep in ps
> tinit = 0
> dt = 0.001
> nsteps = 1000000
> ; For exact run continuation or redoing part of a run
> ; Part index is updated automatically on checkpointing (keeps files
> separate)
> simulation_part = 1
> init_step = 0
> ; mode for center of mass motion removal
> comm-mode = linear
> ; number of steps for center of mass motion removal
> nstcomm = 1
> ; group(s) for center of mass motion removal
> comm-grps =
>
> ; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS OPTIONS
> ; Friction coefficient (amu/ps) and random seed
> bd-fric = 0
> ld-seed = 1993
>
> ; ENERGY MINIMIZATION OPTIONS
> ; Force tolerance and initial step-size
> emtol =
> emstep =
> ; Max number of iterations in relax_shells
> niter =
> ; Step size (ps^2) for minimization of flexible constraints
> fcstep =
> ; Frequency of steepest descents steps when doing CG
> nstcgsteep =
> nbfgscorr =
>
> ; TEST PARTICLE INSERTION OPTIONS
> rtpi =
>
> ; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS
> ; Output frequency for coords (x), velocities (v) and forces (f)
> nstxout = 1000
> nstvout = 1000
> nstfout = 0
> ; Output frequency for energies to log file and energy file
> nstlog = 1000
> nstenergy = 1000
> ; Output frequency and precision for xtc file
> nstxtcout = 1000
> xtc-precision = 1000
> ; This selects the subset of atoms for the xtc file. You can
> ; select multiple groups. By default all atoms will be written.
> xtc-grps =
> ; Selection of energy groups
> energygrps =
>
> ; NEIGHBORSEARCHING PARAMETERS
> ; nblist update frequency
> nstlist =
> ; ns algorithm (simple or grid)
> ns_type = grid
> ; Periodic boundary conditions: xyz, no, xy
> pbc = xyz
> periodic_molecules = yes
> ; nblist cut-off
> rlist = 0.9
>
> ; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW
> ; Method for doing electrostatics
> coulombtype = PME
> rcoulomb-switch = 0
> rcoulomb = 0.9
> ; Relative dielectric constant for the medium and the reaction field
> epsilon_r =
> epsilon_rf =
>
> ; Method for doing Van der Waals
> vdw-type = Cut-off
> ; cut-off lengths
> rvdw-switch = 0
> rvdw = 0.9
> ; Apply long range dispersion corrections for Energy and Pressure
> DispCorr = No
> ; Extension of the potential lookup tables beyond the cut-off
> table-extension =
> ; Seperate tables between energy group pairs
> energygrp_table =
>
>
> ; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid
> fourierspacing = 0.12
> ; FFT grid size, when a value is 0 fourierspacing will be used
> fourier_nx = 0
> fourier_ny = 0
> fourier_nz = 0
> ; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters
> pme_order =
> ewald_rtol = 1e-05
> ewald_geometry = 3d
> epsilon_surface = 0
> optimize_fft = yes
>
>
>
> ; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS
> ; Temperature coupling
> tcoupl = nose-hoover
> ; Groups to couple separately
> tc-grps = System
> ; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K)
> tau_t = 0.1
> ref_t = 150
>
> ; Pressure coupling
> Pcoupl = No
> Pcoupltype =
> ; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar)
> tau-p =
> compressibility =
> ref-p =
> ; Scaling of reference coordinates, No, All or COM
> refcoord_scaling = no
> ; Random seed for Andersen thermostat
> andersen_seed =
>
> ; GENERATE VELOCITIES FOR STARTUP RUN
> gen_vel = yes
> gen_temp = 150
> gen_seed = 173529
>
> ; OPTIONS FOR BONDS
> constraints = none
> ; Type of constraint algorithm
> constraint-algorithm = Lincs
> ; Do not constrain the start configuration
> continuation = no
> ; Use successive overrelaxation to reduce the number of shake iterations
> Shake-SOR = no
> ; Relative tolerance of shake
> shake-tol = 0.0001
> ; Highest order in the expansion of the constraint coupling matrix
> lincs-order = 4
> ; Number of iterations in the final step of LINCS. 1 is fine for
> ; normal simulations, but use 2 to conserve energy in NVE runs.
> ; For energy minimization with constraints it should be 4 to 8.
> lincs-iter = 1
> ; Lincs will write a warning to the stderr if in one step a bond
> ; rotates over more degrees than
> lincs-warnangle = 30
> ; Convert harmonic bonds to morse potentials
> morse = no
>
> ; ENERGY GROUP EXCLUSIONS
> ; Pairs of energy groups for which all non-bonded interactions are excluded
> energygrp_excl =
>
> ; WALLS
> ; Number of walls, type, atom types, densities and box-z scale factor
> for Ewald
> nwall = 0
> wall_type = 9-3
> wall_r_linpot = -1
> wall_atomtype =
> wall_density =
> wall_ewald_zfac = 3
>
>
> ; Non-equilibrium MD stuff
> acc-grps =
> accelerate =
> freezegrps = SI_O
> freezedim = Y Y Y
> cos-acceleration = 0
> deform =
>
>
>
>
>
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