[gmx-users] replica exchange simulations performance issues.

[Miro Astore]

correction: 99.3% is going into NxN
Ewald Elec. + LJ [F]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:55 PM Miro Astore <miro.astore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody. I've been experimenting with REMD for my system running
> on 48 cores with 4 gpus (I will need to scale up to 73 replicas
> because this is a complicated system with many DOF I'm open to being
> told this is all a silly idea).
>
> My run configuration is
> mpirun -np 4 --map-by numa gmx_mpi mdrun -cpi memb_prod1.cpt -ntomp 11
> -v -deffnm memb_prod1 -multidir 1 2 3 4 -replex 1000
>
> the best I can squeeze out of this is 9ns/day. In a non-replica
> simulation I can hit 50ns/day with a single GPU and 12 cores.
>
> Looking at my accounting, for a single replica 52% of time is being
> spent on the "Force" category with 92% of my Mflops going into NxN
> Ewald Elec. + LJ [F]
>
> I'm wondering what I could do to reduce this bottle neck if anything.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Miro A. Astore   (he/him)
> PhD Candidate | Computational Biophysics
> Office 434 A28 School of Physics
> University of Sydney



-- 
Miro A. Astore   (he/him)
PhD Candidate | Computational Biophysics
Office 434 A28 School of Physics
University of Sydney