[gmx-users] Fwd: segmentation fault on gpus

Mark Abraham mark.j.abraham at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 07:57:05 CEST 2014


In the Verlet scheme, mdrun will change rlist to conserve energy and
maximize performance. Just leave it alone.

Mark
On Jun 24, 2014 10:18 PM, "ram bio" <rmbio861 at gmail.com> wrote:

> so, is it that rlist should be less than rc?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/24/14, 12:14 PM, ram bio wrote:
> > >>
> > >> hi Justin,
> > >>
> > >> Thanks, that makes sense, however I was able to use the same ligand
> > >> toplogy
> > >> files with earlier versions like gromacs 4.5.4 to simulate protein
> > ligand
> > >> complexes. I can simulate protein-ligand complexes with the current
> > >> versions also but only for the crystal structures that have ligand
> bound
> > >> to
> > >> it, not the modelled proteins with ligands bound.
> > >>
> > >
> > > So the same ligand works elsewhere, but not in a specific complex?
>  That
> > > implicates the starting structure or the quality of the protein
> > structure.
> > > Other notes below.
> > >
> > >
> > >> and also I would appreciate any comments on the mdp file as below:
> > >>
> > >> title                  = Bilayer-500
> > >> cpp                    = /lib/cpp
> > >> constraint_algorithm = lincs
> > >> constraints    = all-bonds; added
> > >> lincs_iter     = 1; added
> > >> lincs_order    = 4; added
> > >> integrator             = md;
> > >> dt                     = 0.002
> > >> tinit                  = 0;
> > >> nsteps                 = 1000000 ; 2 ns
> > >> nstcomm                = 500
> > >> nstxout                = 5000
> > >> nstvout                = 5000
> > >> nstfout                = 0
> > >> nstxtcout              = 500
> > >> xtc_precision          = 1000
> > >> nstlog                 = 500
> > >> nstenergy              = 500
> > >> nstlist                = 50
> > >
> > >
> > > This may work well in terms of GPU performance, but could be
> problematic
> > if
> > > there are very sensitive cases.
> >
> > Why would it be problematic?
> >
> > >
> > >> ns_type        = grid; added
> > >> nstcalclr      = 1
> > >> ; long range interactions
> > >> coulombtype            = PME
> > >> rlist                  = 1.4
> > >> rcoulomb               = 1.2
> > >> rvdw                   = 1.2
> >
> > Setting  rlist != rc doesn't make sense for the Verlet scheme.
> >
> > >> fourierspacing         = 0.16
> > >> pme_order              = 4
> > >> vdw-type               = Cut-off
> > >> cutoff-scheme          = Verlet
> > >> Tcoupl                 = v-rescale
> > >> tau_t                  = 0.1     0.1    0.1  0.1 0.1 0.1  0.1
> > >> 0.1
> > >> tc-grps                = Protein POP    SOL  NA  CL LIG SOD CLA
> > >> ref_t                  = 303     303    303  303 303 303   303 303
> > >
> > >
> > > This tc-grp setup is total nonsense.
> > >
> > > http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Thermostats
> > >
> > > -Justin
> > >
> > >
> > >> ; Energy monitoring
> > >> energygrps             = Protein POP SOL SOD CLA LIG NA CL
> > >> Pcoupl                 = Berendsen
> > >> pcoupltype             = semiisotropic
> > >> tau_p                  = 1.0    1.0
> > >> compressibility        = 4.5e-5 4.5e-5
> > >> ref_p                  = 1.0    1.0
> > >> DispCorr    = no ; added
> > >> ;generate velocites is on at 293K
> > >> gen_vel                = yes
> > >> gen_temp               = 303.0
> > >> gen_seed               = 478905
> > >> comm-mode       = Linear
> > >> comm-grps       = System
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Pramod
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 6/23/14, 5:53 PM, ram bio wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Dear Gromacs Users,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I have been trying to simulate protein-ligand complex using gromacs
> > >>>> versions that use verlet cutoff scheme on gpus.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> These are some of the issues that i could resolve, and any kind of
> > >>>> suggestion or help is appreciated.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 1. With gromacs 4.6.5 i could simulate crystal structure from pdb
> but
> > >>>> not
> > >>>> modelled protein with ligand always ended up in segmentation fault.
> > The
> > >>>> MD
> > >>>> run during equillibration runs for gew thousands of steps and errors
> > out
> > >>>> as
> > >>>> segmentation fault, so i have to rerun using previous cpt file, for
> a
> > >>>> run
> > >>>> of 2ns to complete i have to rerun it for 7-10 times.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> So if the the system id not minimized, why would it go into rerun?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 2. I though it could be a bug and used 4.6.3 and 5.0 release, with
> > this
> > >>>> trial i could equillibrate just modelled protein but not with the
> > >>>> protein-ligand complex. The same error occurs as i mentioned above
> > with
> > >>>> protein-ligand complex...
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I am attaching my mdp file and the minimized structure that i am
> using
> > >>>> for
> > >>>> equillibration.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> The list doesn't accept attachments.
> > >>>
> > >>> It seems clear to me that your ligand topology is not stable.  If the
> > >>> protein works, but the protein+ligand doesn't, what's changing?
>  That's
> > >>> the
> > >>> likeliest source of your problem.
> > >>>
> > >>> -Justin
> > >>>
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