[gmx-users] LINCS and number of nodes

Moeed lecielll at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 19 02:37:59 CET 2011


Hello Justin,

Thanks for you reply. My late response is because I have been trying to
resolve the problem.

 Dear experts,
>>
>> I am trying to build up a polymer in hexane system by increasing the
>> density. After PR step, my NVT and NPT trailes failed. Initially I used to
>> get LINCS and 1-4 warnings (even for NVT) which were not because of flawed
>> topology file. It turned out that simulations crashed just because of using
>> -np > 4. But still even with this -np, NPT did not work which made me to
>> swtich to berendsen from parrinelo rahman scheme. As I approched the desired
>> density again simulation crashed, so I used
>>
>> trjconv -s .tpr -f .trr -o frame2300.gro -dump 2300
>>
>> to extract one of the frames before crash I did another NVT to
>> equilibrate.
>> mpirun -np 4 mdrun_mpi -deffnm PE60-110Hex-NPT3-frame2300_md -s -o -c -g
>> -e -x -v -pd
>>
>> after around 1 ns I get the error below ( mdp file is also included). I
>> described above since I encountered the situation where root cause of
>> problem was not topology and just the computational issue ( I mean -np), I
>> am just curious if the same thing applies here. Please help me with this.
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>>
> What MPI library (and version) are you using?  Do your runs work in serial?
>
> I am using openmpi.1.4.3. Once I try mdrun in serial I get many LINCS and
1-4 warnings ending with segmentation fault at the very beginning.

Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
Warning: 1-4 interaction between 1433 and 1441 at distance 2.472 which is
larger than the 1-4 table size 2.250 nm
These are ignored for the rest of the simulation
This usually means your system is exploding,
if not, you should increase table-extension in your mdp file
or with user tables increase the table size

Step 11, time 0.022 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
rms 0.004346, max 0.036836 (between atoms 116 and 119)

parallel run does not work for -np >4


>  more details: There is only one polyethylene chain ( 60 units) in 110
>> hexane. The chain is not convoluted and has a little extended shape, which
>> make it not easy fit in the box.
>>
>>
> What do you mean it doesn't fit in the box?  If you've got a system that
> you're trying to force into some shape or size, your PE chain is probably
> just crashing into itself across periodic boundaries.  Watch the trajectory
> to see what's going on prior to the crash.
>


I am not forcing it in to the box. I am just increasing the density but
since it becomes to extended it crashes into itself as you predicted. I have
no control on this..Then I had to take another frame before crash and try a
new conformation hoping that a long simulation with this starting structure
does not crash.

Also I tried FE, but I am getting no output file dhdl. even when I include
-dhdl in the command line...

free_energy          =   yes
init_lambda          =   0
delta_lambda         =   0
sc_alpha             =   0.5
sc-power             =   1
sc_sigma             =   0.3
foreign_lambda       =   0.1
dhdl_derivatives     =   yes
couple-moltype       =   Polymer
couple-lambda0       =   vdw-q     ;vdw
couple-lambda1       =   none  ;vdw;none
couple-intramol      =   yes
nstdhdl              =   10
separate_dhdl_file   =   yes
dh_hist_size         =   0
dh_hist_spacing      =   0.1

Please give me some advice..
Thanks

>
> -Justin
>
>
>  Moeed
>> ===========================================
>>
>> step 449800, will finish Tue Mar 15 11:23:55 2011
>> step 449900, will finish Tue Mar 15 11:23:55 2011
>> [node5:09563] *** Process received signal ***
>> [node5:09563] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
>> [node5:09563] Signal code: Address not mapped (1)
>> [node5:09563] Failing at address: 0xffffffff80849dc0
>> [node5:09563] [ 0] /lib64/libpthread.so.0 [0x3a2660eb10]
>> [node5:09563] [ 1] mdrun_mpi [0x4f0155]
>> [node5:09563] [ 2] mdrun_mpi(gmx_pme_do+0x216d) [0x4f9c1d]
>> [node5:09563] [ 3] mdrun_mpi(do_force_lowlevel+0x21c8) [0x49c658]
>> [node5:09563] [ 4] mdrun_mpi(do_force+0xc59) [0x50db19]
>> [node5:09563] [ 5] mdrun_mpi(do_md+0x5623) [0x43e353]
>> [node5:09563] [ 6] mdrun_mpi(mdrunner+0xa07) [0x435e07]
>> [node5:09563] [ 7] mdrun_mpi(main+0x1269) [0x443319]
>> [node5:09563] [ 8] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x3a25e1d994]
>> [node5:09563] [ 9] mdrun_mpi [0x420449]
>> [node5:09563] *** End of error message ***
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> mpirun noticed that process rank 0 with PID 9563 on node node5.reyclus.loc
>> exited on signal 11 (Segmentation fault).
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> pbc              =  xyz                  ;energygrps          =  PE HEX
>>       ;        Run control                   integrator          =  md
>>            dt                  =  0.002               nsteps              =
>>  1000000 ;5000         nstcomm             =  100
>> ;        Output control
>> nstenergy           =  100                nstxout             =  100
>>           nstvout             =  0
>> nstfout             =  0
>> nstlog              =  1000           nstxtcout          =  1000
>>
>> ;        Neighbor searching
>> nstlist             =  10               ns_type             =  grid
>>
>> ;        Electrostatics/VdW
>> coulombtype         =  PME                    vdw-type            =  Shift
>>             rcoulomb-switch     =  0                  rvdw-switch         =
>>  0.9 ;0
>> ;        Cut-offs
>> rlist               =  1.25                 rcoulomb            =  1.25
>> ;1.1           rvdw                =  1.0
>> ;        PME parameters
>> fourierspacing      =  0.12               fourier_nx          =  0
>> fourier_ny          =  0
>> fourier_nz          =  0
>> pme_order          =  4                 ewald_rtol          =  1e-5
>> optimize_fft      =  yes
>>
>> ;        Temperature coupling   Tcoupl              =  v-rescale
>>       tc-grps             =  System  ;HEX                   tau_t
>>     =  0.1     ;0.1           ref_t               =  300     ;300          ;
>>        Pressure coupling
>> Pcoupl              =  no;berendsen             Pcoupltype          =
>>  isotropic               tau_p               =  0.5                ;0.5
>> compressibility     =  4.5e-5 4.5e-5         ref_p               =  30    30
>>
>> ;        Velocity generation               gen_vel             =  yes
>>             gen_temp            =  300.0               gen_seed            =
>>  173529
>> ;        Bonds
>> constraints             = all-bonds              constraint-algorithm =
>> lincs
>>
>>
> --
> ========================================
>
> 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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