[gmx-users] " X particles communicated to PME node Y are more ... " error in lysozyme tutorial

Vishal Kumar Jaiswal vishal3990 at gmail.com
Mon May 20 15:00:07 CEST 2013


                          LAPTOP- WORKING
                          PC -NOT WORKING

Gromacs version:    VERSION 4.6.1
                                         VERSION 4.6.1
Precision:          single
                                                              same
Memory model:       32 bit
                                                          64 bit
MPI library:        thread_mpi
                                                          same
OpenMP support:     enabled
                                                     same
GPU support:        enabled
                                                      disabled
invsqrt routine:    gmx_software_invsqrt(x)
                                                   same
CPU acceleration:   SSE4.1
                                                    AVX_256
FFT library:        fftw-3.2.2
                                                           fftw-3.3.3-sse2
Large file support: enabled
                                                          same
RDTSCP usage:       disabled
                                                        enabled
Built on:           Fri Mar 15 14:30:08 IST 2013
                                     Fri May 10 13:45:48 IST 2013
Built by:           vishal at vishal-VPCCW16FG [CMAKE]
                          vishal at aditya-HCL-Desktop [CMAKE]
Build OS/arch:      Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
                                Linux 3.0.0-19-generic x86_64
Build CPU vendor:   GenuineIntel
                                                       GenuineIntel



Build CPU brand:    Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700  @ 2.53GHz
     Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
Build CPU family:   6   Model: 23   Stepping: 10
                                            6   Model: 42   Stepping: 7

Build CPU features: apic clfsh cmov cx8 cx16 lahf_lm mmx msr pdcm pse sse2
sse3 sse4.1 ssse3
                            : PC - aes apic avx clfsh cmov cx8 cx16 htt
lahf_lm mmx msr nonstop_tsc pcid pclmuldq pdcm popcnt pse rdtscp sse2 sse3
sse4.1 sse4.2 ssse3 tdt x2apic

C compiler:         /usr/bin/gcc GNU gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
4.6.1
                         PC -  /usr/bin/gcc GNU gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro
4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1

C compiler flags:   -msse4.1   -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers
-Wno-sign-compare -Wall -Wno-unused -Wunused-value   -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-all-loops -fexcess-precision=fast  -O3 -DNDEBUG
                             PC -    -mavx   -Wextra
-Wno-missing-field-initializers
-Wno-sign-compare -Wall -Wno-unused -Wunused-value   -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-all-loops -fexcess-precision=fast  -O3 -DNDEBUG


C++ compiler:       /usr/bin/c++ GNU c++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
4.6.1
                           PC - none

C++ compiler flags: -msse4.1   -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers
-Wno-sign-compare -Wall -Wno-unused -Wunused-value   -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-all-loops -fexcess-precision=fast  -O3 -DNDEBUG
                              PC -none

CUDA compiler:      nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver;Copyright (c)
2005-2012 NVIDIA Corporation;Built on Fri_Sep_21_17:24:42_PDT_2012;Cuda
compilation tools, release 5.0, V0.2.1221
                                PC (none)

CUDA driver:        5.0                             none
CUDA runtime:       5.0                          none


These are taken from gromacs log files. ( Though i have CUDA installed on
laptop i dont use it for GROMACS as the NVIDIA compte capability is 1.2)
I am able to run the tutorial on PC now using GROMACS 4.5.7

Please tell me if you want more details.


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 5/20/13 2:29 AM, Vishal Kumar Jaiswal wrote:
>
>> I am trying to complete the lysozyme in water tutorial in gromacs 4.6.1
>> and
>> i am getting this error in the energy minimization step
>> I was able to complete the entire tutorial on another computer ( my
>> personal laptop) . ( I was getting the same error while doing energy
>> minimization on another system (polymer in water) which forced me to check
>> gromacs correcctness by doing the lysozyme tutorial)
>>
>>
> How do the configurations of your laptop and the problematic machine
> differ?
>
> -Justin
>
>
>
>> The following is the verbose output to my terminal :
>>
>> Steepest Descents:
>>     Tolerance (Fmax)   =  1.00000e+03
>>     Number of steps    =        50000
>> Step=    0, Dmax= 1.0e-02 nm, Epot=         -nan Fmax= 1.50489e+13, atom=
>> 14918
>> ------------------------------**-------------------------
>> Program mdrun, VERSION 4.6.1
>> Source code file: /home/vishal/Downloads/**gromacs-4.6.1/src/mdlib/pme.c,
>> line: 827
>>
>> Fatal error:
>> 3483 particles communicated to PME node 2 are more than 2/3 times the
>> cut-off out of the domain decomposition cell of their charge group in
>> dimension x.
>> This usually means that your system is not well equilibrated.
>>
>> Following is the entry from "em.log" file
>>
>> Linking all bonded interactions to atoms
>> There are 8522 inter charge-group exclusions,
>> will use an extra communication step for exclusion forces for PME
>>
>> The initial number of communication pulses is: X 1
>> The initial domain decomposition cell size is: X 1.83 nm
>>
>> The maximum allowed distance for charge groups involved in interactions
>> is:
>>                   non-bonded interactions           1.000 nm
>>              two-body bonded interactions  (-rdd)   1.000 nm
>>            multi-body bonded interactions  (-rdd)   1.000 nm
>>
>>
>> Making 1D domain decomposition grid 4 x 1 x 1, home cell index 0 0 0
>>
>> Initiating Steepest Descents
>> Charge group distribution at step 0: 3184 3300 3308 3255
>> Grid: 5 x 11 x 11 cells
>> Started Steepest Descents on node 0 Mon May 20 11:36:21 2013
>>
>> Steepest Descents:
>>     Tolerance (Fmax)   =  1.00000e+03
>>     Number of steps    =        50000
>>
>>             Step           Time         Lambda
>>                0        0.00000        0.00000
>>
>> DD  step 0 load imb.: force  8.8%
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**-------------------------
>> Program mdrun, VERSION 4.6.1
>> Source code file: /home/vishal/Downloads/**gromacs-4.6.1/src/mdlib/pme.c,
>> line: 827
>>
>> Fatal error:
>> 3483 particles communicated to PME node 2 are more than 2/3 times the
>> cut-off out of the domain decomposition cell of their charge group in
>> dimension x.
>> This usually means that your system is not well equilibrated.
>>
>>
>> The following is the hardware information of the pc on which error is
>> showing ttaken from "em.log" file
>>
>>
>> Gromacs version:    VERSION 4.6.1
>> Precision:          single
>> Memory model:       64 bit
>> MPI library:        thread_mpi
>> OpenMP support:     enabled
>> GPU support:        disabled
>> invsqrt routine:    gmx_software_invsqrt(x)
>> CPU acceleration:   AVX_256
>> FFT library:        fftw-3.3.3-sse2
>> Large file support: enabled
>> RDTSCP usage:       enabled
>> Built on:           Fri May 10 13:45:48 IST 2013
>> Built by:           vishal at aditya-HCL-Desktop [CMAKE]
>> Build OS/arch:      Linux 3.0.0-19-generic x86_64
>> Build CPU vendor:   GenuineIntel
>> Build CPU brand:    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
>> Build CPU family:   6   Model: 42   Stepping: 7
>> Build CPU features: aes apic avx clfsh cmov cx8 cx16 htt lahf_lm mmx msr
>> nonstop_tsc pcid pclmuldq pdcm popcnt pse rdtscp sse2 sse3 sse4.1 sse4.2
>> ssse3 tdt x2apic
>> C compiler:         /usr/bin/gcc GNU gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
>> 4.6.1
>> C compiler flags:   -mavx   -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-**initializers
>> -Wno-sign-compare -Wall -Wno-unused -Wunused-value   -fomit-frame-pointer
>> -funroll-all-loops -fexcess-precision=fast  -O3 -DNDEBUG
>>
>>
> --
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>
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