[gmx-users] Problem in Bootstrapping of PMF

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/16/17 7:15 AM, Alex wrote:
> Hello gromacs user,
>
> I have calculated the PMF by umbrella sampling for my system, by below
> command I am trying to Bootstrap my PMF, but I do not know why bsResult.xvg
> in whcih the error bars is stored can not be produced. The rests contain
> Profile, bsProfs.xvg are easily be calculated though.
>
> I increased the time and number of used 512 CPU's, but after more than one
> week the bootstrapping stopped again just because of time limit with out
> bsResult.xvg.
>
> I have already done nicely the same calculation for some similar systems,
> even with higher number of bins and bootstraps, and this is the only one I
> have problem with in spite of the similar ingredients.
>
> ---------
> #$ -l h_rt=850000,h_vmem=3200M
> #$ -notify
> #$ -cwd
> #$ -A gromacs_parallel
> #$ -pe orte_sl16* 512
>
>         mpirun -x PATH -np 1 gmx_mpi wham -hist Histo.xvg -nBootstrap 350
> -bins 350 -bs-method b-hist -bsres bsResult.xvg -bsprof bsProfs.xvg -if
> Fpull.dat -it TPR.dat -min 1.18 -max 3.6 -ac -o Profile.xvg -zprof0 3.6 -b
> 48000 -unit kCal >bot.log 2>&1
> ----------
>
> An help is highly appreciated.
>

Does it work if you run normally, e.g. not via mpirun?  There's nothing to gain 
here by doing this.  The latest gmx wham can use OpenMP via the OMP_NUM_THREADS 
environment variable if you want to speed things up.

-Justin

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