[gmx-users] Choosing LINCS setting / rcon for parallel mdrun

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Mon Nov 16 02:14:40 CET 2015



On 11/15/15 8:09 PM, Agnivo Gosai wrote:
> Dear Users,
>
> I tried to do a NVT run on a cluster with -np = 64. My system size is 12405
> atoms ( a protein in water )
>
> I get the following error.
>
> ERROR.
>
> There is no domain decomposition for 56 nodes that is compatible with the
> given box and a minimum cell size of 0.959375 nm
> Change the number of nodes or mdrun option -rcon or -dds or your LINCS
> settings
>
> 8 nodes were assigned for PME cal by mdrun
>
> This is the part of my NVT.mdp
>
> ; Bond parameters
> continuation    = no            ; first dynamics run
> constraint_algorithm = lincs    ; holonomic constraints
> constraints     = all-bonds     ; all bonds (even heavy atom-H bonds)
> constrained
> lincs_iter      = 1             ; accuracy of LINCS
> lincs_order     = 4             ; also related to accuracy
> ; Neighborsearching
> ns_type     = grid      ; search neighboring grid cells
> nstlist     = 5         ; 10 fs
> rlist       = 1.4      ; short-range neighborlist cutoff (in nm)
> rcoulomb    = 1.4      ; short-range electrostatic cutoff (in nm)
> rvdw        = 1.4       ; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in nm)
> ; Electrostatics
> coulombtype     = PME       ; Particle Mesh Ewald for long-range
> electrostatics
> pme_order       = 4         ; cubic interpolation
> fourierspacing  = 0.12      ; grid spacing for FFT
>
> I would still like to use 64 processes for the mdrun. Any suggestions
> please.
>

Your system is too small to decompose over 64 cores.  One cannot arbitrarily 
parallelize any system over any number of cores/nodes.

-Justin

> I am thinking of playing with -rcon. But I am not sure if it will affect
> the accuracy of the simulation.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Agnivo Gosai
> Grad Student, Iowa State University.
>

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