[gmx-users] MPI segmentation Fault

Xu Dong Huang xudongh at eden.rutgers.edu
Wed Jan 2 21:42:16 CET 2013


@Justin, here are the details of my NVT and NPT .mdp, (All ran without position restraint) , + details of the NVT run

For NVT.mdp:
integrator               = md
tinit                    = 0.0
dt                       = 0.02  
nsteps                   = 10000
nstcomm                  = 1
comm-grps		 = 

nstxout                  = 0
nstvout                  = 0
nstfout                  = 0
nstlog                   = 1000
nstenergy                = 100
nstxtcout                = 1000
xtc_precision            = 100
xtc-grps                 = 
energygrps               = system
nstlist                  = 10
ns_type                  = grid
pbc                      = xyz
rlist                    = 1.4
coulombtype              = Shift 
rcoulomb_switch          = 0.0
rcoulomb                 = 1.2
epsilon_r                = 15
vdw_type                 = Shift 
rvdw_switch              = 0.9
rvdw                     = 1.2
DispCorr                 = No
tcoupl                   = V-rescale
tc-grps                  = system
tau_t                    = 1.0 
ref_t                    = 300 
Pcoupl                   = no 
Pcoupltype               = isotropic
tau_p                    = 1.0 
compressibility          = 3e-4
ref_p                    = 1.0

gen_vel                  = yes
gen_temp                 = 300
gen_seed                 = 473529

constraints              = none 
constraint_algorithm     = Lincs
unconstrained_start      = no
lincs_order              = 4
lincs_warnangle          = 30

For NPT.mdp 

integrator               = md
tinit                    = 0.0
dt                       = 0.02  
nsteps                   = 1000000
nstcomm                  = 1
comm-grps		 = 

nstxout                  = 0
nstvout                  = 0
nstfout                  = 0
nstlog                   = 1000
nstenergy                = 100
nstxtcout                = 1000
xtc_precision            = 100
xtc-grps                 = 
energygrps               = system
nstlist                  = 10
ns_type                  = grid
pbc                      = xyz
rlist                    = 1.4
coulombtype              = Shift 
rcoulomb_switch          = 0.0
rcoulomb                 = 1.2
epsilon_r                = 15
vdw_type                 = Shift 
rvdw_switch              = 0.9
rvdw                     = 1.2
DispCorr                 = No
tcoupl                   = V-rescale
tc-grps                  = system
tau_t                    = 1.0 
ref_t                    = 300 
Pcoupl                   = Parrinello-Rahman
Pcoupltype               = isotropic
tau_p                    = 5.0 
compressibility          = 3e-4
ref_p                    = 1.0

gen_vel                  = no
gen_temp                 = 300
gen_seed                 = 473529

constraints              = none 
constraint_algorithm     = Lincs
unconstrained_start      = no
lincs_order              = 4
lincs_warnangle          = 30

OUTPUT log FOR NVT RUN:

Writing checkpoint, step 9760 at Wed Jan  2 06:43:55 2013


           Step           Time         Lambda
          10000      200.00000        0.00000

Writing checkpoint, step 10000 at Wed Jan  2 06:56:58 2013


   Energies (kJ/mol)
           Bond        LJ (SR)   Coulomb (SR)      Potential    Kinetic En.
    1.27815e+03   -2.21982e+07    0.00000e+00   -2.21969e+07    2.99756e+06
   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pressure (bar)
   -1.91994e+07   -2.18426e+07    2.99676e+02    7.09077e+02

	<======  ###############  ==>
	<====  A V E R A G E S  ====>
	<==  ###############  ======>

	Statistics over 10001 steps using 1001 frames

   Energies (kJ/mol)
           Bond        LJ (SR)   Coulomb (SR)      Potential    Kinetic En.
    1.33393e+03   -2.22049e+07    0.00000e+00   -2.22036e+07    2.98604e+06
   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pressure (bar)
   -1.92176e+07   -2.18431e+07    2.98524e+02    7.06152e+02

   Total Virial (kJ/mol)
   -9.41186e+05    7.05498e+01    6.65566e+02
    7.05612e+01   -9.40675e+05   -3.05521e+00
    6.65543e+02   -3.06027e+00   -9.44794e+05

   Pressure (bar)
    7.05835e+02   -4.93053e-02   -2.47918e-01
   -4.93095e-02    7.05573e+02   -4.79105e-03
   -2.47909e-01   -4.78920e-03    7.07047e+02

   Total Dipole (D)
    0.00000e+00    0.00000e+00    0.00000e+00




Xu Dong Huang
Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
Rutgers School of Engineering 
xudongh at eden.rutgers.edu 

On Jan 2, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Xu Dong Huang <xudongh at eden.rutgers.edu> 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)
> 
> 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 
>> 
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