[gmx-users] Re: Re: mdrun -multi flag (Mark Abraham)

[Justin A. Lemkul]

bo.shuang wrote:
> Hi, Mark,
> 
> Thank you for help. It works. But now I have new fatal error:
> 
> Fatal error:
> The number of nodes (1) is not a multiple of the number of simulations (2)
> 
> MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 0 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
> with errorcode -1.
> 
> NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
> You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on
> exactly when Open MPI kills them.
> 
> 
> What does it mean about nodes? Thank you!
> 

Running multiple simulations requires multiple processors.  For 2 simulations, 
you need at least 2 processors (one for each simulation).  More can be used, but 
it must be a multiple of the number of simulations, as the error message indicates.

-Justin

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