[gmx-users] Re: Segmentation fault, mdrun_mpi

[Justin Lemkul]

On 10/8/12 4:39 AM, Ladasky wrote:
> Justin Lemkul wrote
>> My first guess would be a buggy MPI implementation.  I can't comment on
>> hardware
>> specs, but usually the random failures seen in mdrun_mpi are a result of
>> some
>> generic MPI failure.  What MPI are you using?
>
> I am using the OpenMPI package, version 1.4.3.  It's one of three MPI
> implementations which are included in the standard repositories of Ubuntu
> Linux 11.10.  I can also obtain MPICH2 and gromacs-mpich without jumping
> through too many hoops.  It looks like LAM is also available.  However, if
> GROMACS needs a special package to interface with LAM, it's not in the
> repositories.
>

This all seems reasonable.  I asked about the MPI implementation because people 
have previously reported that using LAM (which is really outdated) causes random 
seg faults and errors.  I would not necessarily implicate OpenMPI, as I use it 
routinely.  I never use repositories (I always compile from source) as I have 
gotten buggy packages in the past, but I don't know if that's relevant here or 
not.  I'm not trying to implicate the package maintainer in any way, just noting 
that long ago (5-6 years) the Gromacs package had some issues.

-Justin

> Alternately, I could drop using the external MPI for now and just use the
> new multi-threaded GROMACS defaults.  I was trying to prepare for longer
> runs on a cluster, however.  If those runs are going to crash, I had better
> know about it now.
>
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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