[gmx-users] Re: loab imbalance

[lina]

> 
> On 6/04/2010 5:39 PM, lina wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Here is the result of the mdrun which was performed on 16cpus. I am not
> > clear about it, was it due to using MPI reason? or some other reasons.
> >
> > Writing final coordinates.
> >
> >   Average load imbalance: 1500.0 %
> >   Part of the total run time spent waiting due to load imbalance: 187.5 %
> >   Steps where the load balancing was limited by -rdd, -rcon and/or -dds:
> > X 0 % Y 0 %
> >
> > NOTE: 187.5 % performance was lost due to load imbalance
> >        in the domain decomposition.
> 
> You ran an inefficient but otherwise valid computation. Check out the 
> manual section on domain decomposition to learn why it was inefficient, 
> and whether you can do better.
> 
> Mark

I search the "decomposition" keyword on Gromacs manual, no match found.
Are you positive about that? Thanks any way, but can you make it more
problem-solved-oriented, so I can easily understand.

Thanks and regards,

lina