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

Rossen Apostolov rossen at kth.se
Fri Feb 7 08:09:17 CET 2014


Hi William,

If you want to file a bug report you can do that at redmine.gromacs.org. 
It seems that you are already registered, maybe twice:

wrww <http://redmine.gromacs.org/users/853/edit> 	Will 	Welch 
wwelch000 at gmail.com <mailto:wwelch000 at gmail.com> 	
	02/03/2014 11:33 PM 	
	
wwelch at wisc.edu <http://redmine.gromacs.org/users/164/edit> 	Will 
empty 	wwelch at wisc.edu <mailto:wwelch at wisc.edu> 	
	
	
	


Do you have problems logging it?

Rossen

On 07/02/14 01:40, William Welch wrote:
> 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
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:35 PM, <
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>> Today's Topics:
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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)
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>> Message-ID:
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>> CANnYEw6u_34+0dXZTc5e-KM3+Uc6SKvLUw6pm53iH4AxZ97LDw at mail.gmail.com>
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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
>> Message-ID: <52EFF01B.2060801 at soton.ac.uk>
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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?
>> Message-ID:
>>          <
>> CAEy4365XycLRK+phHuin7jv1V96ps2++cg4xvh+cjae4v2O4+A at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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?
>> Message-ID:
>>          <CA+zJb=gfrqK9WDBgFvw2Hy6mhba5=
>> 484nxW+d4v1Vf6ifE6PyA at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> 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?
>> Message-ID:
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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
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:35:27 +0100
>> From: Tamas Horvath <hotafin at gmail.com>
>> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
>> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] intel GPU acceleration?
>> Message-ID:
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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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