> From: zhao0...@ntu.edu.sg
> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org
> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:05:32 +0800
> Subject: [gmx-users] Re: Re: loab imbalance
>
>
> lina wrote:
> >> On 6/04/2010 5:39 PM, lina wrote:
> >>> Hi everyone,
> >>>
> >>> Here is the result of the mdrun which was performed on 16cpus. I am
> not
> >>> clear about it, was it due to using MPI reason? or some other
> reasons.
> >>>
> >>> Writing final coordinates.
> >>>
> >>> Average load imbalance: 1500.0 %
> >>> Part of the total run time spent waiting due to load imbalance:
> 187.5 %
> >>> Steps where the load balancing was limited by -rdd, -rcon and/or
> -dds:
> >>> X 0 % Y 0 %
> >>>
> >>> NOTE: 187.5 % performance was lost due to load imbalance
> >>> in the domain decomposition.
> >> You ran an inefficient but otherwise valid computation. Check out
> the
> >> manual section on domain decomposition to learn why it was
> inefficient,
> >> and whether you can do better.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >
> > I search the "decomposition" keyword on Gromacs manual, no match
> found.
> > Are you positive about that? Thanks any way, but can you make it more
>
> The title of section 3.17 is "Domain Decomposition" and discusses the
> algorithm
> and mdrun parameters relevant to controlling performance.
>
> -Justin
>
> Sorry, the acroread is really not sensitive in searching "domain" or
> "decomposition" on version 3.3. I did the same search on version 3.2 and
> I found it. I am not so familiar with this manual. Thanks again.
>
> lina
Since you performance roughly doubles when going from 8 to 16 cores,
I think there is no significant load imbalance and there is a bug in the routine
that calculates the total load imbalance.
In my previous mail I asked which Gromacs version you are using.
Could you please tell me this?
Berk
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