[gmx-users] gromacs.org_gmx-users Digest, Vol 118, Issue 10

William Welch wwelch000 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 01:40:40 CET 2014


I'm not sure if I'm replying correctly, but I just wanted to mention that I
would love to file a report to the redmine list, but I have not been
approved to do so.  Is there another place I can report this problem?
Will


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>    1. Re: multiple GPU on multiple nodes (Szil?rd P?ll)
>    2. Re: question (Thomas Piggot)
>    3. Annealing doesn't work with Andersen thermostat? (William Welch)
>    4. Re: Annealing doesn't work with Andersen thermostat?
>       (Michael Shirts)
>    5. intel GPU acceleration? (Albert)
>    6. Re: intel GPU acceleration? (Tamas Horvath)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 20:36:30 +0100
> From: Szil?rd P?ll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] multiple GPU on multiple nodes
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> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:06 AM, cyberjhon <cyberjhon at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Szilard
> >
> > Thanks for your answer but I think that I did not make myself clear
> enough
> >
> > I am trying to use 2 GPUs, each one in a different node.
> > but it seems that gromacs only detects the one.
>
> How do you know that it only detects one?
>
> The message which says "1 GPU detected on host nid00900:" does not
> mean that only one GPU was detected. The log file is written on a
> single rank (master rank = #0) and that's where you get the detection
> output. The GPU setup is assumed to be homogenous across nodes, i.e.
> if on node nid00900 you have one GPU and you run two PP ranks on it
> (-gpu_id 00) this will mean that on another rank, e.g. nid00901, the
> same setup will apply.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Szil?rd
>
> >
> > When I submit the job, I ask for two nodes, and the two nodes are being
> > given.
> > but the gromacs gpu version only is detecting one and one GPU.
> >
> > Do you know any way to make that it detects both nodes and therefore both
> > GPUs ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > John Michael
> >
> >
> >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 19:38:03 +0000
> From: Thomas Piggot <t.piggot at soton.ac.uk>
> To: <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] question
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> I guess the force field to use is a bit down to choice, however I would
> say that there are several force fields which should not be used in this
> case. There are several force fields/parameterisations that do not
> behave well for these two types of lipids (e.g. many Berger based
> parameters). As suggested, a thorough search through the literature is
> really what you need to do (e.g. for PG
> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp900645z ; for both (and apologies
> for the self promotion) the supp info from
> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp207013v and many more papers that
> are out there). For making a choice between force fields you should
> weigh up things like accuracy, speed of simulation, lipid diffusion
> rates, inclusion of other components of your system (e.g. proteins,
> etc.) and so on.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
> On 02/03/2014 07:06 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2/3/14, 2:03 PM, nafas wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> thanks for your help.
> >> I think charmm force field imust use.but i dont know who can i found
> >> its files ?
> >>
> >
> > The full CHARMM36 force field in Gromacs format can be obtained from
> > http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/CHARMM_ff_params.html.
> >
> > -Justin
> >
> >>
> >> On Monday, February 3, 2014 9:19 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2/3/14, 12:30 PM, nafas wrote:
> >>  > Hi
> >>  > I am tring with mixture pope/popg for simulatie membrane bacteria
> >> that i use
> >> of gromos53a6 force field.
> >>  > what force field should i use?charmm force field?
> >>  >
> >>
> >> What does your scrutiny of the literature tell you?  Which force
> >> field succeeds
> >> in the most meaningful ways?
> >>
> >>
> >>  > in program  have been used pope.itp ,popg.itp, .....files .
> >>  > I want to run grompp command but give afatall error:not found NH3L
> >> atomtype.
> >>  > grompp -f minim.mdp -c ......gro -p ....top -o em.tpr
> >>  >
> >>  > I dont know what is problem?
> >>
> >>
> >> You have not constructed the force field correctly.  Without
> >> significantly more
> >> detail, there's nothing useful to suggest beyond a thorough read
> >> through Chapter
> >> 5 of the manual.
> >>
> >> -Justin
> >>
> >> --
> >> ==================================================
> >>
> >> Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
> >> Postdoctoral Fellow
> >>
> >> Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
> >> School of Pharmacy
> >> Health Sciences Facility II, Room 601
> >> University of Maryland, Baltimore
> >> 20 Penn St.
> >> Baltimore, MD 21201
> >>
> >> jalemkul at outerbanks.umaryland.edu
> >> <mailto:jalemkul at outerbanks.umaryland.edu> |
> >> (410) 706-7441
> >> http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/~jalemkul
> >>
> >>
> >> ==================================================
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> --
> Dr Thomas Piggot
> University of Southampton, UK.
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:02:27 -0700
> From: William Welch <wwelch000 at gmail.com>
> To: gromacs.org_gmx-users at maillist.sys.kth.se
> Subject: [gmx-users] Annealing doesn't work with Andersen thermostat?
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> Hi,
> I am doing some simulations on simple Lennard-Jones spheres and course
> grained hydrocarbon models. I have been using the annealing utility
> successfully until I switched from the V-rescale thermostat to the Andersen
> thermostat. When I use the Andersen thermostat, the system gets to the
> first temperature and then stays there. This does not happen if I switch to
> a different thermostat. My guess is that Andersen not available with
> annealing, at least in the version I'm using (4.6) , however I have not
> been able to find any reference to that online or in the mailing list. Here
> is one of the mdp files that produced a simulation that did not work. .
>
>  title               =  8pore
> integrator          =  md-vv
> dt                  =  0.003    ; ps !
> nsteps              =  2500000  ; total 7500 ps.
> nstcomm             =  1
> nstxout             =  2000
> nstvout             =  2000
> nstfout             =  0
> nstlog              =  100
> nstenergy           =  1
> nstlist             =  10
> ns_type             =  grid
> rlist               =  1.5
> rcoulomb            =  1.5
> rvdw                =  1.5
> ; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in two groups
> Tcoupl              =  Andersen
> tc-grps             =  LJ BL
> tau_t               =  0.1 0.1
> ref_t               =  230 230
> ; Energy monitoring
> energygrps           =  LJ BL
> energygrp-excl       =  BL BL
> freezegrps           =  BL
> freezedim            =  Y Y Y
> ; Isotropic pressure coupling is now on
> ;Pcoupl              = berendsen
> ;Pcoupltype          = isotropic
> ;tau_p               =  0.5
> ;compressibility     =  4.5e-5
> ;ref_p               =  1.0
> annealing            = single single
> annealing-npoints    = 20 20
> annealing-time       = 0 200 400 800 1200 1600 2000 2400 2800 3200 3600
> 4000 4400 4800 5200 5600 6000 6400 6800 7200  0 200 400 800 1200 1600 2000
> 2400 2800 3200 3600 4000 4400 4800 5200 5600 6000 6400 6800 7200
> annealing-temp       = 100 200 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330
> 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 100 200 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320
> 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400
> ;Generate velocites is off at 300 K.
> gen_vel             =  yes
> gen_temp            =  230.0
> ;gen_seed           =  173529
>
> Velocities are generated at 230 (which is kind of strange, but changing
> that doesn't do anything) and the system cools to 100K and then stays
> there. The output in the md.log file shows that the correct ref_t is being
> read, but the actual temperature of the system does not increase. The same
> input using the md integrator and the V-rescaling thermostat does what it's
> supposed to.
> Will
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:52:06 -0500
> From: Michael Shirts <mrshirts at gmail.com>
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Annealing doesn't work with Andersen
>         thermostat?
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> Hi, William-
>
> Interesting.  There's too many conditionals with the current patchwork
> of temperature control methods, so there is an ongoing (though too
> slow) effort to reorganize the algorithms to eliminate such errors as
> this.
>
> For a medium-term solution, I'd suggest filing a redmine issue
> (redmine.gromacs.org) on this error so that it gets fixed for the next
> round of update.
>
> In the short-term, if you are interested in introducing stochasticness
> into the annealing, I'd suggest using the sd integrator for now.
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, William Welch <wwelch000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am doing some simulations on simple Lennard-Jones spheres and course
> > grained hydrocarbon models. I have been using the annealing utility
> > successfully until I switched from the V-rescale thermostat to the
> Andersen
> > thermostat. When I use the Andersen thermostat, the system gets to the
> > first temperature and then stays there. This does not happen if I switch
> to
> > a different thermostat. My guess is that Andersen not available with
> > annealing, at least in the version I'm using (4.6) , however I have not
> > been able to find any reference to that online or in the mailing list.
> Here
> > is one of the mdp files that produced a simulation that did not work. .
> >
> >  title               =  8pore
> > integrator          =  md-vv
> > dt                  =  0.003    ; ps !
> > nsteps              =  2500000  ; total 7500 ps.
> > nstcomm             =  1
> > nstxout             =  2000
> > nstvout             =  2000
> > nstfout             =  0
> > nstlog              =  100
> > nstenergy           =  1
> > nstlist             =  10
> > ns_type             =  grid
> > rlist               =  1.5
> > rcoulomb            =  1.5
> > rvdw                =  1.5
> > ; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in two groups
> > Tcoupl              =  Andersen
> > tc-grps             =  LJ BL
> > tau_t               =  0.1 0.1
> > ref_t               =  230 230
> > ; Energy monitoring
> > energygrps           =  LJ BL
> > energygrp-excl       =  BL BL
> > freezegrps           =  BL
> > freezedim            =  Y Y Y
> > ; Isotropic pressure coupling is now on
> > ;Pcoupl              = berendsen
> > ;Pcoupltype          = isotropic
> > ;tau_p               =  0.5
> > ;compressibility     =  4.5e-5
> > ;ref_p               =  1.0
> > annealing            = single single
> > annealing-npoints    = 20 20
> > annealing-time       = 0 200 400 800 1200 1600 2000 2400 2800 3200 3600
> > 4000 4400 4800 5200 5600 6000 6400 6800 7200  0 200 400 800 1200 1600
> 2000
> > 2400 2800 3200 3600 4000 4400 4800 5200 5600 6000 6400 6800 7200
> > annealing-temp       = 100 200 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320
> 330
> > 340 350 360 370 380 390 400 100 200 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310
> 320
> > 330 340 350 360 370 380 390 400
> > ;Generate velocites is off at 300 K.
> > gen_vel             =  yes
> > gen_temp            =  230.0
> > ;gen_seed           =  173529
> >
> > Velocities are generated at 230 (which is kind of strange, but changing
> > that doesn't do anything) and the system cools to 100K and then stays
> > there. The output in the md.log file shows that the correct ref_t is
> being
> > read, but the actual temperature of the system does not increase. The
> same
> > input using the md integrator and the V-rescaling thermostat does what
> it's
> > supposed to.
> > Will
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 21:56:25 +0100
> From: Albert <mailmd2011 at gmail.com>
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> Subject: [gmx-users] intel GPU acceleration?
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> Hello?
>
> I noticed that Intel also have GPU such as: Intel(R) Xeon Phi(tm)
> coprocessor
> 3120A. I am just wondering is the latest version of Gromacs support such
> kind of GPU calculation?
>
> thank you very much.
>
> Albert
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:35:27 +0100
> From: Tamas Horvath <hotafin at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] intel GPU acceleration?
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> It's actually more like a cluster on a card than a gpu. It has x86 cores
> (albeit very simple ones). Theoretically any x86 code compiled with the
> xeon phi compiler can run on it without any further modification, though
> further optimizations are possible.
>
>
> On 3 February 2014 21:56, Albert <mailmd2011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello?
> >
> > I noticed that Intel also have GPU such as: Intel(R) Xeon Phi(tm)
> > coprocessor
> > 3120A. I am just wondering is the latest version of Gromacs support such
> > kind of GPU calculation?
> >
> > thank you very much.
> >
> > Albert
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