Hi Justin and Hannes,
Thank you for the replay. I apologize for the insufficient information. Actually, I calculated them with couple-moltype = solute and init-lambda-state = 1. The other parameters except for fep-lambdas, the number of core(8) and hardware were same. When I look at "REAL CCLE AND TIME ACCOUNTING" in log file, there is large difference in "PME redist. X/F". What makes it much longer? I would appreciate any comments or concerns. Input1(fep-lambdas = 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0) **************************************************************************************** Computing: Nodes Th. Count Wall t (s) G-Cycles % ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Domain decomp. 8 1 250000 100.985 2100.559 0.2 DD comm. load 8 1 501 0.004 0.082 0.0 Neighbor search 8 1 250001 351.227 7305.783 0.8 Comm. coord. 8 1 2500001 74.248 1544.405 0.2 Force 8 1 2500001 8671.720 180378.288 20.8 Wait + Comm. F 8 1 2500001 49.926 1038.492 0.1 PME mesh 8 1 2500001 31496.259 655145.855 75.6 Write traj. 8 1 547 0.275 5.710 0.0 Update 8 1 2500001 284.487 5917.540 0.7 Constraints 8 1 5000002 396.070 8238.552 1.0 Comm. energies 8 1 250001 7.876 163.837 0.0 Rest 8 250.084 5201.928 0.6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8 41683.159 867041.031 100.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PME redist. X/F 8 1 7500003 26513.015 551490.632 63.6 PME spread/gather 8 1 10000004 3879.936 80705.579 9.3 PME 3D-FFT 8 1 10000004 702.656 14615.765 1.7 PME 3D-FFT Comm. 8 1 20000008 264.536 5502.543 0.6 PME solve 8 1 5000002 127.236 2646.610 0.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core t (s) Wall t (s) (%) Time: 332678.400 41683.159 798.1 11h34:43 (ns/day) (hour/ns) Performance: 10.364 2.316 Finished mdrun on node 0 Thu Apr 2 06:31:45 2015 ********************************************************************************* Input2(fep-lambdas = 0.0 0.1 0.2) ********************************************************************************* Computing: Nodes Th. Count Wall t (s) G-Cycles % ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Domain decomp. 8 1 250000 85.779 1784.259 0.5 DD comm. load 8 1 501 0.003 0.072 0.0 Neighbor search 8 1 250001 312.515 6500.517 1.7 Comm. coord. 8 1 2500001 69.584 1447.387 0.4 Force 8 1 2500001 4219.963 87778.089 23.5 Wait + Comm. F 8 1 2500001 46.401 965.178 0.3 PME mesh 8 1 2500001 12342.326 256728.717 68.8 Write traj. 8 1 520 0.150 3.117 0.0 Update 8 1 2500001 262.237 5454.706 1.5 Constraints 8 1 5000002 368.111 7656.961 2.1 Comm. energies 8 1 250001 6.524 135.712 0.0 Rest 8 227.039 4722.575 1.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 8 17940.633 373177.290 100.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PME redist. X/F 8 1 7500003 7982.056 166032.158 44.5 PME spread/gather 8 1 10000004 3327.975 69224.129 18.5 PME 3D-FFT 8 1 10000004 645.036 13417.186 3.6 PME 3D-FFT Comm. 8 1 20000008 259.876 5405.587 1.4 PME solve 8 1 5000002 118.906 2473.318 0.7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core t (s) Wall t (s) (%) Time: 143196.260 17940.633 798.2 4h59:00 (ns/day) (hour/ns) Performance: 24.079 0.997 Finished mdrun on node 0 Fri Apr 3 19:11:15 2015 ********************************************************************************* Best regards, Nao -----Original Message----- From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se [mailto:gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se] On Behalf Of Hannes Loeffler Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 10:48 PM To: gromacs.org_gmx-users@maillist.sys.kth.se Cc: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] difference of calculation time between the numbers of fep-lambdas values On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:05:05 -0400 Justin Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu<mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>> wrote: > > > On 4/27/15 9:02 AM, Hannes Loeffler wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 07:43:51 -0400 > > Justin Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu<mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>> wrote: > > > >> Note that without couple-moltype, you're going to be decoupling the > >> whole system, which is (1) not what you want for calculating > >> solvation free energy and (2) extremely slow. There is an inherent > >> slowdown when running the free energy code, but it should not be so > >> large. > > > > Really? I just looked into the code yesterday and I think that if > > you do not set couple-moltype, none of the coupling code is ever > > triggered. I have only played a bit with relative free energies > > (Gromacs 4.6) where I think you don't need any of the couple- > > parameters at all. > > > > Maybe I got that backwards. For relative free energies, this is true > (we're doing these now); topological differences are all that are > needed. For an absolute solvation free energy, one needs > couple-moltype unless the B-state (dummy) is explicitly defined in > the topology, AFAIK. If there is no couple-moltype, and no B-state > defined in the topology, I'm not sure what the code would even be > doing, actually. I think it runs a normal MD simulation for each lambda. A quick test with a A-state only topology and no couple- parameters gives only gradients with zero value. In fact, the output file says There are 0 atoms and 0 charges for free energy perturbation Cheers, Hannes. -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists * For (un)subscribe requests visit https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org<mailto:gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org>. -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists * For (un)subscribe requests visit https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org.