[gmx-users] multi threading on rocks cluster

[michael.b]

dear all,
I have a problem with multithreading on a cluster.
Our (vanilla) rocks cluster  has several nodes each with 8 cores. I used to
be
able to start a job with "mdrun_d -nt 8" (NOT mdrun_mpi) and the directive
"-pe mpi_smp 8" in the qsub job file,  and the calculations would
automatically
be distributed over the eight cores in a single node.
Now judging from the speed of calculations, it seems as if only one core was
used, but in the log file there is a statement: "Using 8 MPI threads" ... is
there any
way to make sure that all cores are used, and is there a way to check how
many cores are really used by a given job?
thanks!
michael

ps: I used a tpr file made with grompp version 4.6.5 and the mdrun on the
cluster
is actually 4.6.3 ... mdrun does not complain, but can this be the problem?

pps: i found that when using "cutoff-scheme = Verlet" in the mdp file the
jobs
run faster than otherwise, but even then they are slower than
expected ...

ppps: i these runs i do not use PME, but cut-off for electrostatics, does
this
perhaps affect multi-threading?



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