Hi Mark, Thank you for your reply. Just to confirm, mdrun_mpi is still being used in Gromacs 4.5.3? The gromacs manual (Appendix A.5- Running Gromacs in parallel) suggested using "mdrun -np 8 -s topol -v -N 8" in running a single machine with multiple (8) processors and "mpirun -p goofus,doofus,fred 10 mdrun -s topol -v -N 30" to run three machines with ten processors each. You probably already know this but I am confused as to whether these commands are correct in running parallel simulations (thus the assumption that mdrun_mpi is no longer applicable in gromacs 4.5.3). So far I have not been successful in running parallel simulations (as I mentioned before the two options above would only start X identical serial processes). My bottom line is I want to run Gromacs simulation in parallel (regardless of whether it is running on one silicon with a number of processors or on different machines or nodes with a specified number of processors).
I assume that in order to get mdrun_mpi, Gromacs has to be recompiled using the --enable-mpi option because currently our gromacs executable bin does not have mdrun_mpi. Our system administrator said that all mpi-related options have been enabled in compiling gromacs and still the mdrun_mpi is not found as one of the exe files. Please help. Thanks, JT -----Original Message----- From: gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org on behalf of Mark Abraham Sent: Mon 12/13/2010 4:38 PM To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Subject: Re: [gmx-users] mpi run in Gromacs 4.5.3 On 14/12/2010 7:48 AM, Te, Jerez A., Ph.D. wrote: > > Hi, > I have been trying to run Gromacs 4.5.3 parallel simulations using > openmpi 1.4.2. From my understanding, mdrun_mpi is not used in this > version of Gromacs. > I don't understand what (you think) you mean. You can use thread-based parallelism for processors that share common silicon, or MPI-based parallelism if a network connection is involved, but not both. The latter is named mdrun_mpi by default. > Our system administrator told me that all mpi related options have > been turned on while installing Gromacs. With either commands: > mdrun -np X -deffnm topol -N X (run in an 8-cpu node) > This won't run in parallel at all. mdrun ignores -np and -N > or > mpirun -np X mdrun -deffnm topol -N X (submitted in a number of nodes > depending on availability) > This will get you the symptoms below, but -N is still ignored. > I get X identical simulations instead of a parallel run. If X=4, I get > 4 identical simulations (the same simulation ran 4 times) instead of 1 > parallel simulation in 4 processors. The performance difference > between a single-processor run and the X=4 run are also similar (no > marked difference in the time it takes to finish the simulation). > Has anyone encountered this problem? > You're using a serial mdrun. Use a parallel mdrun. Mark
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