[gmx-users] gromacs 4.0 parallelization

[Justin A. Lemkul]

milad ekramnia wrote:
> Dear gromacs users I am working with gromacs 4.0 and my system is a protein
> under tension solvated in water under Lincs constraint .when I run my mdrun
> over n nodes by mpirun I'll get n-1 trajectory files (also the same happen
> for all other output files ) which as it appears all are identical. as far as
> I know each file shall represent a separate part of the box but when I
> analyze the trrs the results are identical ( e.g for g_gyrate task ) I want
> to now if they are exactly the same ? if yes , can I prevent the rest of them
> from being biult up ?
> 

It sounds like, instead of one single MPI process, you're getting a number of 
identical (serial) runs.  Did you --enable-mpi when you configured mdrun?

-Justin

> thanks

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Justin A. Lemkul
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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