[gmx-users] Issue with domain decomposition between v4.5.5 and 4.6.1

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/14/13 11:23 PM, Stephanie Teich-McGoldrick wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am running a NPT simulation of 33,534 tip4P waters, and I am using domain
> decomposition as the parallelization scheme. Previously, I had been using
> Gromacs version 4.5.5 but have recently installed and switched to Gromacs
> version 4.6.1. Using Gromacs 4.5.5 I can successfully run my water box
> using domain decomposition over many different processor numbers. However
> the same simulation returns the following error when I try Gromacs 4.6.1
>
> "The initial number of communication pulses is: X 1 Y 1 Z 1
> The initial domain decomposition cell size is: X 2.48 nm Y 2.48 nm Z 1.46 nm
>
> When dynamic load balancing gets turned on, these settings will change to:
> The maximum number of communication pulses is: X 1 Y 1 Z 1
> The minimum size for domain decomposition cells is 1.000 nm
> The requested allowed shrink of DD cells (option -dds) is: 0.80
> The allowed shrink of domain decomposition cells is: X 0.40 Y 0.40 Z 0.68
> "
> The above error occurred running over 16 nodes / 128 processors. The system
> runs for version 4.6.1 for 1,8, and 16 processors but not for 32,64, or 128
> processors.
>
> I have tried other systems (including NVT, Berendsen/PR barostats,
> anisotropic/isotropic ) at the higher number of processors using both
> version 4.5.5 and 4.6.1 and get the same result - v4.5.5 runs fine while
> v4.6.1 returns the error type listed above.
>
> Is anyone else having a similar issue? Is there something I am not
> considering? Any help would be greatly appreciated! The details I have used
> to compile each code are below. My log files indicate that I am indeed
> calling the correct executable at run time.
>

Based on what you've posted, I don't see any error.  All of the above is normal 
output.

-Justin

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