[gmx-users] mdrun_mpi executable not found

Justin Kat justin.kat at mail.mcgill.ca
Wed Jan 26 18:56:26 CET 2011


./configure --enable-mpi --program-suffix=_mpi
make mdrun
make install-mdrun
make links

Sorry for the random asterisk* symbols they must have came through from some
formatting.



On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Justin Kat <justin.kat at mail.mcgill.ca>wrote:

> Thank you, I have been to that page probably a good 100 times by now.
>
> Was the 'No.' response with regards to my primary question? Or to the one within the parentheses?
>
>
> Suppose I remove my existing installation and reinstall, I am hoping to figure out when/where exactly should I specify --program-suffix=_mpi so as to not overwrite the pre-existing serial mdrun as I have mistakenly done so with my current installation.
>
>
>
> *./configure --enable-mpi --program-suffix=_mpi
> **make mdrun
> **make install-mdrun
> **make links*
>
> Lastly, if the above set of commands are incorrect, or will not carry out what I intend (to build a separate mdrun_mpi executable apart from the existing mdrun after a normal build), I am kindly requesting for a suitable revision.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
> On 26/01/2011 8:50 AM, Justin Kat wrote:
> >* Alright. So meaning I should have instead issued:
> *>*
> *>* ./configure --enable-mpi --program-suffix=_mpi
>
>
> *>* make mdrun
> *>* make install-mdrun
> *>* make links
> *>*
> *>* to have installed an MPI-enabled executable called mdrun_mpi apart
> *>* from the existing mdrun executable? (Would I also need to append the
>
>
>
> *>* _mpi suffix when issuing the first two make and make install commands
> *>* above?
> *
> No. See http://www.gromacs.org/Downloads/Installation_Instructions
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>
>
>
> Mark
>
> >*
> *>* Thanks,
> *>* Justin
> *>*
> *>* On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu <http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users>
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>
>
> *
> - Show quoted text -
> >* <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users>>> wrote:
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> *>*
> *>*
> *>*
> *>*     Justin Kat wrote:
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> *>*     > Thank you for the reply!
>
> *>*     >
> *>*     > hmm mdrun_mpi does not appear in the list of executables in
>
> *>*     > /usr/local/gromacs/bin (and well therefore not in /usr/local/bin).
> *>*     >
>
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> *>*     > Which set of installation commands that I used should have
> *>*     compiled the
>
> *>*     > mdrun_mpi executable? And how should I go about getting the
> *>*     mdrun_mpi
>
>
> *>*     > executable at this point?
> *>*     >
> *>*
> *>*     I see it now.  When you configured with --enable-mpi, you didn't
>
> *>*     specify
> *>*     --program-suffix=_mpi, so the installation procedure over-wrote
>
>
> *>*     your existing
> *>*     (serial) mdrun with an MPI-enabled one simply called "mdrun."  The
>
> *>*     configure
> *>*     output should have warned you about this.  You could, in theory,
>
>
> *>*     simply re-name
> *>*     your existing executable "mdrun_mpi" and then re-install a serial
>
> *>*     mdrun, if you
> *>*     need it.
> *>*
> *>*     -Justin
>
>
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