Re: [gmx-users] AVX2 SIMD intrinsics speed boost

2013-07-12 Thread Erik Lindahl
Hi, We will have AVX2 acceleration ready for general usage before the end of July (together with some other goodies), and it will be markedly faster, but until it's ready and tested to give correct results we can't say anything about the final performance. However, in general AVX2 will have

Re: [gmx-users] Problems with REMD in Gromacs 4.6.3

2013-07-12 Thread Mark Abraham
What does --loadbalance do? What do the .log files say about OMP_NUM_THREADS, thread affinities, pinning, etc? Mark On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:46 AM, 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

Re: [gmx-users] RE: Is non-linear data output/storage possible?

2013-07-12 Thread Mark Abraham
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Neha nshafi...@wesleyan.edu wrote: The .cpt file stores information related to output frequency. The existing .cpt file designates output every X steps, while the new .tpr file specifies output every Y steps, and X != Y, so mdrun complains. I'm assuming

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling settings

2013-07-12 Thread Shima Arasteh
Allright. As I said earlier, my system is a lipid bilayer. A channel is inserted in it and I want to run US on this system. An ion is considered in center of the each window, the reaction coordinate is set to z,  so the group which is pulled is an ion, and my ref group would be COM of the

[gmx-users] Re: Umbrella Sampling settings

2013-07-12 Thread Thomas Schlesier
But you need each of these lines for both cases (SMD and US). Probably one could skip two lines and use the default values, but it's better to set them manually. See below for comments (comments are under the related entry): Thanks for your reply. But when I don't understand why these extra

[gmx-users] Gromacs installation problem

2013-07-12 Thread Douglas Houston
Hi, I am having trouble installing Gromacs 4.6.3. In bash I am using the following sequence of commands: cd gromacs-4.6.3 mkdir build cd build CC=/usr/people/douglas/programs/gcc-4.7.3/installation/bin/gcc ~/programs/cmake-2.8.7/bin/cmake .. -DGMX_BUILD_OWN_FFTW=ON make sudo make install

[gmx-users] convert gromacs formats and xyz

2013-07-12 Thread maggin
Hi, Is anybody known how to convert gromacs formats and xyz? If VMD or catdcd can do it ? Thank you very much! maggin -- View this message in context: http://gromacs.5086.x6.nabble.com/convert-gromacs-formats-and-xyz-tp5009793.html Sent from the GROMACS Users Forum mailing list archive

Re: [gmx-users] convert gromacs formats and xyz

2013-07-12 Thread Mark Abraham
Yes, Google knows quite a lot about this question! Please search before asking. Mark On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:43 AM, maggin maggin.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is anybody known how to convert gromacs formats and xyz? If VMD or catdcd can do it ? Thank you very much! maggin -- View

Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs installation problem

2013-07-12 Thread Mark Abraham
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Douglas Houston douglasr.hous...@ed.ac.uk wrote: Hi, I am having trouble installing Gromacs 4.6.3. In bash I am using the following sequence of commands: cd gromacs-4.6.3 mkdir build cd build CC=/usr/people/douglas/programs/gcc-4.7.3/installation/bin/gcc

[gmx-users] gpu cluster explanation

2013-07-12 Thread Francesco
Hi all, I'm working with a 200K atoms system (protein + explicit water) and after a while using a cpu cluster I had to switch to a gpu cluster. I read both Acceleration and parallelization and Gromacs-gpu documentation pages (http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Acceleration_and_parallelization

[gmx-users] DCD can not open file 'md_0_1.xtc' for reading

2013-07-12 Thread maggin
at linux --- ubantu: use: catdcd -o md_0_1.xyz md_0_1.xtc error: CatDCD 4.0 dcdplugin) unrecognized DCD header: dcdplugin) [0]: 1995 [1]: 1059782656 dcdplugin) [0]: 0x07cb [1]: 0x3f2b dcdplugin) read_dcdheader: corruption or unrecognized file structure Error: could not open

[gmx-users] Re: DCD can not open file 'md_0_1.xtc' for reading

2013-07-12 Thread maggin
at redhat INUXAMD64 use: catdcd -o md_0_1.xyz md_0_1.xtc error: CatDCD 4.0 dcdplugin) unrecognized DCD header: dcdplugin) [0]: 1995 [1]: 1059782656 dcdplugin) [0]: 0x07cb [1]: 0x3f2b dcdplugin) read_dcdheader: corruption or unrecognized file structure Error: could not open

[gmx-users] Re: DCD can not open file 'md_0_1.xtc' for reading

2013-07-12 Thread maggin
I use pdb to do test : catdcd -o 1dx0.gro 1dx0.pdb error: CatDCD 4.0 dcdplugin) unrecognized DCD header: dcdplugin) [0]: 1380273473 [1]: 538987346 dcdplugin) [0]: 0x52454d41 [1]: 0x20204b52 dcdplugin) read_dcdheader: corruption or unrecognized file structure Error: could not open

Re: [gmx-users] Re: DCD can not open file 'md_0_1.xtc' for reading

2013-07-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/12/13 9:34 AM, maggin wrote: I use pdb to do test : catdcd -o 1dx0.gro 1dx0.pdb error: CatDCD 4.0 dcdplugin) unrecognized DCD header: dcdplugin) [0]: 1380273473 [1]: 538987346 dcdplugin) [0]: 0x52454d41 [1]: 0x20204b52 dcdplugin) read_dcdheader: corruption or unrecognized

Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs installation problem

2013-07-12 Thread Douglas Houston
Thanks a lot Mark, that worked (after I did setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/people/douglas/programs/gromacs-4.6.3/install/lib). Quoting Mark Abraham mark.j.abra...@gmail.com on Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:22:01 +0100: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Douglas Houston

Re: [gmx-users] Problems with REMD in Gromacs 4.6.3

2013-07-12 Thread gigo
Hi! On 2013-07-12 11:15, Mark Abraham wrote: What does --loadbalance do? It balances the total number of processes across all allocated nodes. The thing is that mpiexec does not know that I want each replica to fork to 4 OpenMP threads. Thus, without this option and without affinities (in

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling settings

2013-07-12 Thread Shima Arasteh
Allright. As I said earlier, my system is a lipid bilayer. A channel is inserted in it and I want to run US on this system. An ion is considered in center of the each window, the reaction coordinate is set to z,  so the group which is pulled is an ion, and my ref group would be COM of the

Re: [gmx-users] gpu cluster explanation

2013-07-12 Thread Richard Broadbent
On 12/07/13 13:26, Francesco wrote: Hi all, I'm working with a 200K atoms system (protein + explicit water) and after a while using a cpu cluster I had to switch to a gpu cluster. I read both Acceleration and parallelization and Gromacs-gpu documentation pages

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling settings

2013-07-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/12/13 11:32 AM, Shima Arasteh wrote: Allright. As I said earlier, my system is a lipid bilayer. A channel is inserted in it and I want to run US on this system. An ion is considered in center of the each window, the reaction coordinate is set to z, so the group which is pulled is an

Re: [gmx-users] remd

2013-07-12 Thread gigo
Hi! On 2013-07-12 07:58, Shine A wrote: Hi Sir, Is it possible to run an REMD simulation having 16 replicas in a cluster(group of cpu) having 8 nodes. Here each node have 8 processors. It is possible. If you have Gromacs (version = 4.6) compiled with MPI and you specify the

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling settings

2013-07-12 Thread Shima Arasteh
Yes, I got Thomas response and I am so grateful in this about. :-) Also many many thanks for your response Justin. Although I don't know the definition of pull-vec yet and I need to study in this about, Would you  please let me know if the grompp knows what I wrote as the COM of protein or

[gmx-users] Re: Umbrella Sampling settings

2013-07-12 Thread Thomas Schlesier
In GROMACS groups are called via the *.ndx file (default: index.ndx) Be aware that 'pull_dim' determines in which diretions (x,y,z) the umbrella potential acts. So use N N Y , if you want that the ion can move freely (onsidering the pull) in the xy-plane and Y Y Y if you want to also restrit

Re: [gmx-users] Problems with REMD in Gromacs 4.6.3

2013-07-12 Thread Mark Abraham
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:27 PM, gigo g...@ibb.waw.pl wrote: Hi! On 2013-07-12 11:15, Mark Abraham wrote: What does --loadbalance do? It balances the total number of processes across all allocated nodes. OK, but using it means you are hostage to its assumptions about balance. The thing

[gmx-users] request for a/v material for promotional video

2013-07-12 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, To support an upcoming promotional video being prepared by the CRESTA project (http://cresta-project.eu) which provides some of the funding support for GROMACS development, it would be nice to have some real-life examples of work being done with GROMACS as the visual element while a

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Umbrella Sampling settings

2013-07-12 Thread Shima Arasteh
Thanks for your replies. :-) So, if I want to the ion move in only z-direction, I need to set the 'pull_dim' Y Y N? Correct? But in tutorial Justin writes : pull_dim = N N Y: we are pulling only in the z-dimension. Thus, x and y are set to no (N) and z is set to yes (Y). So what should I do?!

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Umbrella Sampling settings

2013-07-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/12/13 2:28 PM, Shima Arasteh wrote: Thanks for your replies. :-) So, if I want to the ion move in only z-direction, I need to set the 'pull_dim' Y Y N? Correct? But in tutorial Justin writes : pull_dim = N N Y: we are pulling only in the z-dimension. Thus, x and y are set to no (N)

[gmx-users] qm-mm calculation

2013-07-12 Thread Nilesh Dhumal
Hello, I am trying to run the qm-mm gas phase calculations for my system. I am using following in md.mdp file. title = cpeptide MD cpp = /usr/bin/cpp integrator = md dt = 0.001; ps ! nsteps = 500 ; total 5 ps.

[gmx-users] Maxwell-Stefan diffusion coefficient

2013-07-12 Thread Rasoul Nasiri
Hello all, Is it possible one can calculate molecular diffusion of multi-component systems in the gas phase by GROMACS? This quantity is very important in evaporation of fluids when liquid and vapour phases are in quasi-equilibrium state. Any help would be highly appreciated? Best Rasoul --

[gmx-users] editconf: Invalid command line argument: –f

2013-07-12 Thread Jonathan Saboury
I am following Tutorial 1 from https://extras.csc.fi/chem/courses/gmx2007/tutorial1/index.html I try the command editconf –f conf.gro –bt dodecahedron –d 0.5 –o box.gro but I get the error: Program editconf, VERSION 4.5.5 Source code file: /build/buildd/gromacs-4.5.5/src/gmxlib/statutil.c, line:

Re: [gmx-users] Problems with REMD in Gromacs 4.6.3

2013-07-12 Thread gigo
On 2013-07-12 20:00, Mark Abraham wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:27 PM, gigo g...@ibb.waw.pl wrote: Hi! On 2013-07-12 11:15, Mark Abraham wrote: What does --loadbalance do? It balances the total number of processes across all allocated nodes. OK, but using it means you are hostage to

[gmx-users] About Solvation dynamics

2013-07-12 Thread Hari Pandey
Hi GROMACS users, Could you please somebody tell me how do I solvate A Reverse Micell by fixed (200) molecule of water keeping in fixed annular region around it. That is how do I solvate spherical micell by water so that the width of spherical region around it is fixed? lots of thanks for help 

[gmx-users] How do I make an AOT reverse micell, which package I should use

2013-07-12 Thread Hari Pandey
Hi all GROMACS users, I need to make a pdb file of AOT reverse micell . Please some body tell me how do I build it and which package would best for this work. Now I am using PACKMOL but it seems just a geometrical mathematical manipulation. I want to arrange charge, LJ parameter, hydrogen bond