[gmx-users] Slow Runs

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Fri Jan 28 21:18:39 CET 2011



Denny Frost wrote:
> all 8 nodes are running at full capacity, though
> 

What is your mdrun command line?  How did you compile it?  What can happen is 
something went wrong during installation, so you think you have an MPI-enabled 
binary, but it is simply executing 8 copies of the same job.

-Justin

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Denny Frost wrote:
> 
>         Here's what I've got:
> 
>         M E G A - F L O P S   A C C O U N T I N G
> 
>           RF=Reaction-Field  FE=Free Energy  SCFE=Soft-Core/Free Energy
>           T=Tabulated        W3=SPC/TIP3p    W4=TIP4p (single or pairs)
>           NF=No Forces
> 
>          Computing:                               M-Number        
>         M-Flops  % Flops
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>          Coul(T) + VdW(T)                   1219164.751609  
>          82903203.109    80.6
>          Outer nonbonded loop                 25980.879385    
>          259808.794     0.3
>          Calc Weights                         37138.271040    
>         1336977.757     1.3
>          Spread Q Bspline                    792283.115520    
>         1584566.231     1.5
>          Gather F Bspline                    792283.115520    
>         4753698.693     4.6
>          3D-FFT                              119163.856212    
>          953310.850     0.9
>          Solve PME                             2527.465668    
>          161757.803     0.2
>          NS-Pairs                             47774.705001    
>         1003268.805     1.0
>          Reset In Box                           371.386080      
>          1114.158     0.0
>          Shift-X                              24758.847360    
>          148553.084     0.1
>          CG-CoM                                1237.953600      
>          3713.861     0.0
>          Angles                               18569.135520    
>         3119614.767     3.0
>          Propers                              14855.308416    
>         3401865.627     3.3
>          Impropers                             3094.855920    
>          643730.031     0.6
>          Virial                                1242.417375      
>         22363.513     0.0
>          Stop-CM                               1237.953600      
>         12379.536     0.0
>          P-Coupling                           12379.423680      
>         74276.542     0.1
>          Calc-Ekin                            12379.436160    
>          334244.776     0.3
>          Lincs                                11760.476208    
>          705628.572     0.7
>          Lincs-Mat                           245113.083072    
>          980452.332     1.0
>          Constraint-V                         23520.928704    
>          188167.430     0.2
>          Constraint-Vir                       11760.452496    
>          282250.860     0.3
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>          Total                                              
>         102874947.133   100.0
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>             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     %
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>          Neighbor search    1      99195     8779.027     3300.3       3.8
>          Force                   1     991941   188562.885    70886.8  
>          81.7
>          PME mesh           1     991941    18012.830     6771.6      7.8
>          Write traj.             1            41     16.835          6.3
>                  0.0
>          Update                 1     991941     2272.379      854.3    
>           1.0
>          Constraints           1     991941    11121.146     4180.8     4.8
>          Rest                     1                    2162.628    
>          813.0      0.9
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>          Total                    1                  230927.730  
>          86813.1   100.0
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>          PME spread/gather      1    1983882      17065.384    6415.4   7.4
>          PME 3D-FFT               1    1983882      503.340       189.2
>             0.2
>          PME solve                  1     991941       427.136      
>         160.6     0.2
>         -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>         Does that mean it's only using 1 node?  That would explain the
>         speed issues.
> 
> 
>     That's what it looks like to me.
> 
> 
>     -Justin
> 
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>     Justin A. Lemkul
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>     Department of Biochemistry
>     Virginia Tech
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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
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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