[gmx-users] Problem with: Shell particles are not implemented with domain decomposition

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Thu Sep 18 14:26:57 CEST 2014



On 9/18/14 8:01 AM, Kester Wong wrote:
> Dear gromacs users,
>
>
> Has anyone experienced a problem with running polarisable water model SWM4-NDP
> with the following warning: Shell particles are not implemented with domain
> decomposition?
>

Out of curiosity, what is the source of your SWM4-NDP topology?

> The md.log also stated the following: Number of hardware threads detected (12)
> does not match the number reported by OpenMP (1). I don't think this is the
> cause, as this message was also found in my other "working" calculations.
>
>
> I have tried using OpenMP and also tried a variety of -ntmpi and -ntomp settings.
>

The only valid option here is -ntmpi 1 and -ntomp equal to whatever number of 
cores you're using.  Until I finish the DD implementation for shells/Drudes, 
only OpenMP is supported here.

-Justin

> The same calculation did not work in GROMACS versions 5.0 and 5.0.1, in the
> following cluster:
>
>
> Gromacs version:    VERSION 5.0.1
>
> Precision:          double
>
> Memory model:       64 bit
>
> MPI library:        MPI
>
> OpenMP support:     enabled
>
> GPU support:        disabled
>
> invsqrt routine:    gmx_software_invsqrt(x)
>
> SIMD instructions:  NONE
>
> FFT library:        fftw-3.3.3
>
> RDTSCP usage:       disabled
>
> C++11 compilation:  disabled
>
> TNG support:        enabled
>
> Tracing support:    disabled
>
> Built on:           Thu Sep 18 20:14:41 KST 2014
>
> Built by:           root at master.hpc [CMAKE]
>
> Build OS/arch:      Linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 x86_64
>
> Build CPU vendor:   GenuineIntel
>
> Build CPU brand:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3220  @ 2.40GHz
>
> Build CPU family:   6   Model: 15   Stepping: 11
>
> Build CPU features: apic clfsh cmov cx8 cx16 lahf_lm mmx msr pdcm pse sse2 sse3
> ssse3
>
> C compiler:         /usr/bin/cc GNU 4.1.2
>
> C compiler flags:      -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-sign-compare
> -Wpointer-arith -Wall -Wno-unused -Wunused-value -Wunused-parameter
> -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops   -O3 -DNDEBUG
>
> C++ compiler:       /usr/bin/c++ GNU 4.1.2
>
> C++ compiler flags:    -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wpointer-arith
> -Wall -Wno-unused-function   -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops   -O3 -DNDEBUG
>
> Boost version:      1.55.0 (internal)
>
>
> Using 24 MPI processes
> Using 1 OpenMP thread per MPI process
>
>
> However, the same input files worked in another cluster (albeit very slowly,
> ~0.3ns/day).
>
>
> Gromacs version:    VERSION 5.0
>
> Precision:          single
>
> Memory model:       64 bit
>
> MPI library:        MPI
>
> OpenMP support:     enabled
>
> GPU support:        disabled
>
> invsqrt routine:    gmx_software_invsqrt(x)
>
> SIMD instructions:  AVX_256
>
> FFT library:        fftpack (built-in)
>
> RDTSCP usage:       enabled
>
> C++11 compilation:  disabled
>
> TNG support:        enabled
>
> Tracing support:    disabled
>
> Built on:           Thu Aug 28 16:44:08 KST 2014
>
> Built by:           root at kant [CMAKE]
>
> Build OS/arch:      Linux 2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64 x86_64
>
> Build CPU vendor:   GenuineIntel
>
> Build CPU brand:    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz
>
> Build CPU family:   6   Model: 60   Stepping: 3
>
> Build CPU features: aes apic avx avx2 clfsh cmov cx8 cx16 f16c fma htt lahf_lm
> mmx msr nonstop_tsc pcid pclmuldq pdcm pdpe1gb popcnt pse rdrnd rdtscp sse2 sse3
> sse4.1 sse4.2 ssse3 tdt x2apic
>
> C compiler:         /usr/bin/gcc GNU 4.4.7
>
> C compiler flags:    -mavx   -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -Wextra
> -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-sign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wall
> -Wno-unused -Wunused-value -Wunused-parameter   -fomit-frame-pointer
> -funroll-all-loops  -Wno-array-bounds  -O3 -DNDEBUG
>
> C++ compiler:       /usr/bin/g++ GNU 4.4.7
>
> C++ compiler flags:  -mavx   -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> -Wpointer-arith -Wall -Wno-unused-function   -fomit-frame-pointer
> -funroll-all-loops  -Wno-array-bounds  -O3 -DNDEBUG
>
> Boost version:      1.55.0 (internal)
>
>
>
> Using 1 MPI process
>
> Using 16 OpenMP threads
>
>
> Regards,
> Kester
>
>
>
>

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