[gmx-users] handling particle decomposition with distance restraints

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Thu Jun 25 03:04:00 CEST 2009



jayant james wrote:
> 
> I just replaced the old gmx 4.0 version with the 4.0.5 version and still 
> the same problem
> 
> NOTE: atoms involved in distance restraints should be within the longest 
> cut-off distance, if this is not the case mdrun generates a fatal error, 
> in that case use particle decomposition (mdrun option -pd)  
> 

Well, does it work with -pd?  It looks like your distance restraints are indeed 
quite long, so this looks like it is your only option.

-Justin
 

> 
> WARNING: Can not write distance restraint data to energy file with 
> domain decomposition
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     jayant james wrote:
> 
>         Hi!
>         I am performing an mpi MD (on a quad core system) run with
>         distance restraints. When I execute this command below  without
>         position restraints the MD run is distributed over 4 nodes
>         perfectly well. But when I incorporate the distance restraints I
>         hit a road block
>          mpirun -np 4  mdrun_mpi  -s pr -e pr -g md -o traj.trr -c pr.gro  &
>          I get this error message (below). My pr.mdp and distance
>         restraints files are given below the error message
>         . *
>         Question.* How do I handle this sitation? Do I increase the long
>         range cut off in the pr.mdp file? If you see my distance
>         restraints file, my upper range of distances are close to 9nm!!
> 
> 
>     Upgrade to the latest version (4.0.5), since there have been
>     numerous improvements to domain decomposition throughout the
>     development of version 4.0.
> 
>     -Justin
> 
>         Please guide.
>         Thanks
>         JJ
>         ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Back Off! I just backed up md.log to ./#md.log.6#
>         Reading file pr.tpr, VERSION 4.0 (single precision)
> 
>         NOTE: atoms involved in distance restraints should be within the
>         longest cut-off distance, if this is not the case mdrun
>         generates a fatal error, in that case use particle decomposition
>         (mdrun option -pd)                                              
>                                                                        
> 
> 
>         WARNING: Can not write distance restraint data to energy file
>         with domain decomposition
> 
>         -------------------------------------------------------
>         Program mdrun_mpi, VERSION 4.0.2                      Source
>         code file: domdec.c, line: 5842                
>         Fatal error:
>         There is no domain decomposition for 4 nodes that is compatible
>         with the given box and a minimum cell size of 9.85926 nm
>         Change the number of nodes or mdrun option -rdd or -dds        
>                                                                Look in
>         the log file for details on the domain decomposition            
>                                                      
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>         *pr.mdp*
> 
>         ;       User spoel (236)
>         ;       Wed Nov  3 17:12:44 1993
>         ;       Input file
>         ;
>         title               =  Yo
>         cpp                 =  /usr/bin/cpp
>         define              =  -DDISRES
>         constraints         =  none
>         ;constraint_algorithm =  lincs
>         ;lincs_order         =  4
>         integrator          =  md
>         dt                  =  0.001    ; ps !
>         nsteps              =  4000000  ; total 2.0ns.
>         nstcomm             =  1
>         nstxout             =  50000
>         nstvout             =  50000
>         nstfout             =  50000
>         nstlog              =  50000
>         nstenergy           =  500
>         nstlist             =  10
>         ns_type             =  grid
>         rlist               =  1.0
>         coulombtype         =  PME
>         rcoulomb            =  1.0
>         vdwtype             =  cut-off
>         rvdw                =  1.4
>         fourierspacing      = 0.12
>         fourier_nx          = 0
>         fourier_ny          = 0
>         fourier_nz          = 0
>         pme_order           = 4
>         ewald_rtol          = 1e-5
>         optimize_fft        = yes
>         disre               =  simple
>         disre_weighting     =  equal
>         ; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in two groups
>         Tcoupl              =  V-rescale
>         tc-grps             =  Protein Non-Protein
>         tau_t               =  0.1 0.1
>         ref_t               =  300 300
>         ; Energy monitoring
>         energygrps          = Protein Non-Protein
>         ;tnc Non-Protein tnt NMR tni
>         ; Pressure coupling is not on
>         Pcoupl              =  parrinello-rahman
>         tau_p               =  0.5
>         compressibility     =  4.5e-5
>         ref_p               =  1.0
>         ;simulated annealing
>         ;Type of annealing form each temperature group (no/single/periodic)
>         ;annealing          =   no, no, no, single, no
>         ;
>         ;Number of annealing points to use for specifying annealing in
>         each group
>         ;annealing_npoints   =  0, 0, 0, 9, 0
>         ;
>         ; List of times at the annealing points for each group
>         ;annealing_time       =  0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200
>         ; Temp.at each annealing point, for each group.
>         ;annealing_temp      =  300 350 400 450 500 450 400 350 300
> 
>         *
>          distance restraints file*
> 
>          distance_restraints ]
>         ;       ai      aj      type    index   type'   low     up1    
>         up2     fac
>         ;TnT240-TnI131, 145, 151, 160, 167  (ca+-7)
>                2019    3889    1       1       1       3.91    3.91  
>          5.31    0.574679
>                2019    4056    1       2       1       4.86    4.86  
>          6.26    0.409911
>                2019    4133    1       3       1       5.69    5.69  
>          7.09    0.457947
>                2019    4207    1       4       1       6.63    6.63  
>          8.03    0.323852
>                2019    4273    1       5       1       7.14    7.14  
>          8.54    0.294559
>         ;TnT276- Tni 131,145,151,160,167,5,17,27,40
>                2434    3889    1       6       1       1.34    1.34  
>          2.74    4.884769
>                2434    4056    1       7       1       2.13    2.13  
>          3.53    0.523368
>                2434    4133    1       8       1       3.66    3.66  
>          5.06    0.409911
>                2434    4207    1       9       1       4.48    4.48  
>          5.88    0.547825
>                2434    4273    1       10      1       5.43    5.43  
>          6.83    0.285938
>                2434    2628    1       11      1       5.89    5.89  
>          7.29    0.241333
>                2434    2719    1       12      1       4.76    4.76  
>          6.16    0.366358
>                2434    2824    1       13      1       3.81    3.81  
>          5.21    0.644145
>                2434    2972    1       14      1       3.10    3.10  
>          4.50    0.431009
>         ;TnT288- Tni 131,145,151,160,167,5,17,27,40
>                2557    3889    1       15      1       1.89    1.89  
>          3.29    1.429688
>                2557    4056    1       16      1       3.25    3.25  
>          4.65    0.32931
>                2557    4133    1       17      1       4.44    4.44  
>          5.84    0.346847
>                2557    4207    1       18      1       4.80    4.80  
>          6.20    0.275198
>                2557    4273    1       19      1       5.84    5.84  
>          7.24    0.200744
>                2557    2628    1       20      1       4.79    4.79  
>          6.19    1.046736
>                2557    2719    1       21      1       5.06    5.06  
>          6.46    0.267659
>         ;       2557    2824    1       22      1
>                2557    2972    1       23      1       3.99    3.99  
>          5.39    0.412797
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>     Justin A. Lemkul
>     Ph.D. Candidate
>     ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
>     Department of Biochemistry
>     Virginia Tech
>     Blacksburg, VA
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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin

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