[gmx-users] Changing number of processors after a job restart

[Justin Lemkul]

On 1/9/15 7:46 AM, Nash, Anthony wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> I thought I would just give it a try at the risk of then being dropped back down on the queue. Turns out I end up with warnings rather than system-halting errors:
>
> -------------
>    #nodes mismatch,
>      current program: 32
>      checkpoint file: 64
>
>    #PME-nodes mismatch,
>      current program: -1
>      checkpoint file: 16
>
> Gromacs binary or parallel settings not identical to previous run.
> Continuation is exact, but is not guaranteed to be binary identical.
>
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>
> I am now weighing up the pros and cons of this simulation.
>

Any possible differences are unlikely to be more significant than the normal 
chaos of MD, I would think.  See, for instance:

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Extending_Simulations#Exact_vs_binary_identical_continuation

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Reproducibility

-Justin

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