[gmx-users] REMD problem

Liu, Liang liu4gre at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 01:53:56 CEST 2011


Not know. I will update the result tomorrow, as the 50000 steps take really
long time :(

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>wrote:

> On 29/09/2011 7:20 AM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Liu, Liang wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, they are updated like:
>>> ...
>>> Replica exchange at step 5700 time 11.4
>>> Repl ex  0    1 x  2    3 x  4    5 x  6    7    8    9 x 10   11 x 12
>>> 13   14   15 x 16   17 x 18   19 x 20   21 x 22   23   24   25 x 26   27
>>> 28   29 x 30   31   32   33 x 34   35   36   37 x 38   39   40   41 x 42
>>> 43 x 44   45 x 46   47   48   49
>>> Repl pr        1.0       1.0       1.0       .00       1.0       1.0
>>>   .00       1.0       1.0       1.0       1.0       .00       1.0       .00
>>>       1.0       .00       1.0       .00       .46       .00       1.0
>>> .78       1.0       .00
>>>
>>> Replica exchange at step 5750 time 11.5
>>> Repl 0 <-> 1  dE = -7.583e+00
>>> Repl ex  0 x  1    2    3    4 x  5    6 x  7    8 x  9   10 x 11   12 x
>>> 13   14 x 15   16 x 17   18 x 19   20   21   22   23   24 x 25   26   27
>>> 28 x 29   30   31   32 x 33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40 x 41   42 x
>>> 43   44   45   46   47   48   49
>>> Repl pr   1.0       .00       1.0       1.0       1.0       1.0       1.0
>>>       1.0       1.0       1.0       .48       .11       1.0       .00
>>> 1.0       .00       1.0       .00       .00       .01       1.0       1.0
>>>     .00       .01       .01
>>>
>>>           Step           Time         Lambda
>>>           5800       11.60000        0.00000
>>>
>>>   Energies (kJ/mol)
>>>          Angle    Proper Dih.  Improper Dih.          LJ-14
>>> Coulomb-14
>>>    9.69806e+02    1.32207e+03    3.34938e+01    4.93171e+02
>>> -3.91111e+03
>>>        LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip. Position
>>> Rest.
>>>    3.14374e+04   -6.42258e+02   -1.88529e+05   -2.01604e+04
>>>  0.00000e+00
>>>      Potential    Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.
>>>  Temperature
>>>   -1.78987e+05    4.57462e+04   -1.33240e+05    1.23302e+10
>>>  5.62201e+02
>>>  Pres. DC (bar) Pressure (bar)   Constr. rmsd
>>>   -2.12803e+02   -5.47109e+02    2.21484e-05
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>> Perhaps someone else can offer an explanation.  It should not be possible
>> to run multiple replicas on a single processor.  Also note that your
>> exchange probability is extremely high; you're likely not obtaining
>> meaningful sampling.
>>
>
> If the MPI configuration allows physical processors to be over-allocated,
> then GROMACS is none the wiser.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>> -Justin
>>
>>  On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Liu, Liang wrote:
>>>
>>>        Thanks. currently what I see is the program runs very slowly,
>>>        but get .log file for all the 50 replicas, does this mean all of
>>>        them are running?
>>>
>>>
>>>    Are the log files being updated, or do they all simply contain a
>>>    fatal error message that there are insufficient nodes?  I cannot
>>>    think of a reason why 50 simulations could possibly run on 2
>>> processors.
>>>
>>>    -Justin
>>>
>>>        On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>>> <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>>> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>           Liu, Liang wrote:
>>>
>>>               Well, although this makes sense, why all the 50 replicas
>>> are
>>>               running when I run "mpirun
>>>                     -np 50 mdrun_mpi -s md.tpr -multi 50 -replex 50" on
>>>        my own
>>>               computer with only 2 cores?
>>>
>>>
>>>           I can offer no explanation for this behavior, but I expect that
>>>           either not all of them are actually running, or at the very
>>> least
>>>           you will get horribly slow performance.
>>>
>>>
>>>               By the way, would you please show me where I can find the
>>>               reasonable replex number information in the literature?
>>>         I did
>>>               not find it in the link you posted and the manual either.
>>>
>>>
>>>           A few minutes of real literature searching will be far more
>>>        valuable
>>>           than some random person on the Internet giving you a value
>>>        that you
>>>           blindly use ;)
>>>
>>>           -Justin
>>>
>>>               Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>               --         Best,
>>>               Liang Liu
>>>
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