[gmx-users] REMD problem

Liu, Liang liu4gre at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 22:19:22 CEST 2011


So if my personal computer have 2 cores, the np should be set to 2? Does it
relate to -multi?

How to choose a reasonable number for -replex? the smaller the better?

Thanks again.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

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> Liu, Liang wrote:
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>> This works. Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Currently I am running on an RNA molecule and I want to a 1 ns REMD
>> simulations with 50 temperatures,
>> would you please have a look at the following command "mpirun -np 50
>> mdrun_mpi -s md.tpr -multi 50 -replex 50". Is this right?
>> How to choose the numbers for np, multi or replex?
>>
>>
> Current Gromacs versions allow more than one processor per REMD simulation.
> Please refer to the link I provided before for specifics.  You need all of
> the replicas to run at roughly the same speed so the number of processors
> per simulation should be the same.
>
>
>  Is the simulation time still set in the mdp file with nsteps and dt? e.g.
>> nsteps = 500000 and dt = 0.002 to run a 1ns simulation?
>>
>>
> It's just like any other simulation in this regard.
>
> -Justin
>
>  Any helps will be highly appreciated.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
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>>    Liu, Liang wrote:
>>
>>        Thanks for the information. I installed the mpi version with
>>        "sudo apt-get install gromacs-openmpi" under Ubuntu.
>>
>>        Then run "mdrun_mpi -s md.tpr -replex 10 -multi 10"?  Another
>>        error appears, "The number of nodes (1) is not a multiple of the
>>        number of simulations (10)". What is this for?
>>
>>
>>    You have to run mdrun_mpi as a process under mpirun, e.g.:
>>
>>    mpirun -np 10 mdrun_mpi -s md.tpr (etc)
>>
>>    -Justin
>>
>>        On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>>        <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
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>>           Liu, Liang wrote:
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>>               Does that mean I have to use MPI? I got an error "mdrun
>>        -multi
>>               is not supported with the thread library.Please compile
>>        GROMACS
>>               with MPI support" after run "mdrun -s md.tpr -multi 10
>>        -replex 10"
>>
>>
>>           Per the error message, yes.
>>
>>           -Justin
>>
>>               On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
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>>                  Liu, Liang wrote:
>>
>>                      Hi everyone,
>>                      I tried to use Gromacs to run REMD simulation.
>>                      Firstly a set of (md#).mdp file are make and the
>>        grompp
>>               command
>>                      can generate the same amount of (md#).tpr file.
>>                      Assume # = 10,
>>                      then I tried to run REMD as mdrun -s md.tpr -np 10
>>               -replex 10.
>>
>>                      However, a fetal error shows as "Need at least two
>>               replicas for
>>                      replica exchange (option -multi)", what is this
>>        for? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>                  You have to use the -multi flag.  Otherwise all mdrun
>>        does is run
>>                  md.tpr and try to do REMD with nothing.
>>
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