Hi,

Is affinity setting (pinning) on? What compiler are you using? There
are some known issues with Intel OpenMP getting in the way of the
internal affinity setting. To verify whether this is causing a
problem, try turning of pinning (-pin off).

Cheers,
--
Szilárd


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 5:29 PM, gigo <g...@poczta.ibb.waw.pl> wrote:
> Dear GMXers,
> With Gromacs 4.6.2 I was running REMD with 144 replicas. Replicas were
> separate MPI jobs of course (OpenMPI 1.6.4). Each replica I run on 4 cores
> with OpenMP. There is Torque installed on the cluster build of 12-cores
> nodes, so I used the following script:
>
> #!/bin/tcsh -f
> #PBS -S /bin/tcsh
> #PBS -N test
> #PBS -l nodes=48:ppn=12
> #PBS -l walltime=300:00:00
> #PBS -l mem=288Gb
> #PBS -r n
> cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
> mpiexec -np 144 --loadbalance mdrun_mpi -v -cpt 20 -multi 144 -ntomp 4
> -replex 2000
>
> It was working just great with 4.6.2. It does not work with 4.6.3. The new
> version was compiled with the same options in the same environment. Mpiexec
> spreads the replicas evenly over the cluster. Each replica forks 4 threads,
> but only one of them uses any cpu. Logs end at the citations. Some empty
> energy and trajectory files are created, nothing is written to them.
> Please let me know if you have any immediate suggestion on how to make it
> work (maybe based on some differences between versions), or if I should fill
> the bug report with all the technical details.
> Best Regards,
>
> Grzegorz Wieczorek
>
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