[gmx-users] MPI segmentation Fault

[Justin Lemkul]

On 1/2/13 3:20 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote:
> Dear gromac users,
>
> after examining my nvt run outcome, I see that my molecule has half of the arm stuck outside of the box (I guess my run wasn't very successful). But I thought the jumping outside of the box would be corrected by periodic boundary? Should I run my nvt for longer since the structure itself did not seem to change much in the solute? (My initial
> Xu Dong Huangnvt nstep=10000, should I increase it to resolve the problem? if that resolves the problem at all that is)
>

There is no "outside" of a periodic cell, so this is a non-problem.  Was the NVT 
run done in parallel?  If it was, it eliminates a faulty MPI installation.  If 
not, then that's an easily testable variable to determine the problem with NPT. 
  You haven't posted any .mdp files, which is another variable in determining 
the viability of any simulation.

-Justin

> Thanks for any input,
>
> Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
> Rutgers School of Engineering
> xudongh at eden.rutgers.edu
>
> On Jan 2, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Xu Dong Huang <xudongh at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear gromac users,
>>
>> after running a successful NVT, I was going to run NPT. (All ran with MPI), however when I attempt to run the NPT, I get the following segmentation error:
>>
>> Getting Loaded...
>> Reading file npt.tpr, VERSION 4.5.3 (single precision)
>> Loaded with Money
>>
>>
>> WARNING: This run will generate roughly 3890 Mb of data
>>
>> starting mdrun 'star'
>> 1000000 steps,  20000.0 ps.
>>
>> step 0[Ultranode02:26884] *** Process received signal ***
>> [Ultranode02:26884] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
>> [Ultranode02:26884] Signal code: Address not mapped (1)
>> [Ultranode02:26884] Failing at address: 0x1f5acf020
>> [Ultranode02:26884] [ 0] /lib/libpthread.so.0(+0xf8f0) [0x2b21605168f0]
>> [Ultranode02:26884] [ 1] mdrun_mpi() [0x745509]
>> [Ultranode02:26884] *** End of error message ***
>> /usr/local/SGE/default/spool/Ultranode02/job_scripts/39346: line 38: 26884 Segmentation fault      mdrun_mpi -v -deffnm npt
>>
>>
>> -----Is my system blowing up? Or there is something wrong with MPI ? (I requested 4 processors)
>>
>> Xu Dong Huang
>> Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
>> Rutgers School of Engineering
>> xudongh at eden.rutgers.edu
>>
>> --
>> gmx-users mailing list    gmx-users at gromacs.org
>> http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users
>> * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting!
>> * Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the
>> www interface or send it to gmx-users-request at gromacs.org.
>> * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists
>

-- 
========================================

Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin

========================================