[gmx-users] mpirun error

[Parisa Rahmani]

Dear gmx users

I have a problem with running parallel jobs on my Debian system(Openmpi
installed on it),
**Linux debian 3.2.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP , UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux**
I am using gmx 3.3.3, because of the *lambda dynamics* method which is
implemented in it.

AS I know ,in gmx 3.x, the number of processors supplied for the subsequent
mdrun needed to match the input file. but when i use **grompp -np 6 &
mpirun -np 6 mdrun** the following error appears :

ERROR : run input file md.tpr was made for 6 nodes,
while mdrun expected it to be for 1 nodes.

through search of mailing list i found similar problems, but non of
the solutions worked for my case.

wihtout -np option in grompp the error disappears, and then with each
of these commands

**

1)mpirun -np 6 mdrun -deffnm md

2)mpirun -np 6 mdrun -deffnm md -N 6

3)mpirun -np 6 mdrun -np 6 -deffnm md

4)mdrun -np 6 -s md -N 6


**it uses 6 processors(each one at nearly 100%), but the simulation
time is the same as for 1 processor.

I have no problem with parallel jobs on our cluster(gmx 3.3.3 &
openmpi), with following command:

**
grompp -np 6 -f ...
mpiexec mdrun ...(number of processors is specified in the bash file)
**
,
but i can't run it on my 6 core system.

Also, I have no problem with newer version of gmx (4.5.x), but i
should use this version, and Hope someone can help me.

Parisa