[gmx-users] GROMACS 4.5.1 mdrun re-compile for MPI

[Adam Herbst]

Thank you all for your help!  I ran

  make distclean

and re-configured in the GROMACS source folder via

  sudo ./configure --prefix=$SOFT --with-gsl --enable-threads
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$SOFT/include" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$SOFT/lib"
  sudo make -j $NCPU
  sudo make install

where SOFT is the installation directory for FFTW3 and GSL, and NCPU is the
number of processors (24) in my machine.  I found if I didn't specify the
CFLAGS and LDFLAGS when running configure (even if they were already
environment variables with the proper paths), I got an error that the FFTW3
header file or library couldn't be found.

Now when I run mdrun, it automatically uses multiple threads and goes just
as fast as before my changes.  Thanks again,

Adam


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>wrote:

> On 24/03/2011 11:51 PM, Adam Herbst wrote:
>
>> Dear GROMACS users,
>> I successfully installed GROMACS 4.5.1 several months ago on a Mac Pro
>> with 12 CPUs, and the "mdrun" command (not "mpirun mdrun_mpi") allows
>> parallel simulations--it automatically uses multiple processors, while the
>> number of processors can be manually specified as N with the flag "mdrun -nt
>> N".  I understand that this is a feature of GROMACS 4 and later.
>>
>
> Yes, threading, enabled by default, and mutually incompatible with MPI.
>
>
>  Now I am making minor changes to the mdrun source code, and I want to
>> recompile such that the parallel version of mdrun is updated with my
>> changes.  But when I run:
>>
>>  make mdrun (or just make)
>>  make install-mdrun (or just make install)
>>
>> from the top-level source directory, the only executables that are updated
>> are the ones with the _mpi suffix, such as mdrun_mpi.  The version of mdrun
>> in src/kernel/ is updated, but this one has no -nt flag and cannot seem to
>> run on multiple processors.  And when I run
>>
>
> Subsequently you have configured with --enable-mpi, so threading is
> disabled. Now everything is probably a mess.
>
>
>
>>  mpirun -np N mdrun_mpi [options],
>>
>> the same simulation is started separately on each processor, leading to a
>> crash.  If I use
>>
>>  mpirun -np 1 -cpus-per-proc N mdrun_mpi [options],
>>
>> I get an error message that this is not supported on my computer ("An
>> attempt to set processor affinity has failed").
>>
>> I can't configure the input .tpr file for parallel because grompp doesn't
>> have the -np flag in GROMACS 4.
>>
>> How can I update the parallel-capable "mdrun" executable with my changes?
>>
>
> Run "make distclean" and then re-configure.
>
> Mark
>
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