Re: [gmx-users] GPU-gromacs

2013-10-25 Thread Carsten Kutzner
On Oct 25, 2013, at 4:07 PM, aixintiankong wrote: > Dear prof., > i want install gromacs on a multi-core workstation with a GPU(tesla c2075), > should i install the openmpi or mpich2? If you want to run Gromacs on just one workstation with a single GPU, you do not need to install an MPI library

[gmx-users] GPU-gromacs

2013-10-25 Thread aixintiankong
Dear prof., i want install gromacs on a multi-core workstation with a GPU(tesla c2075), should i install the openmpi or mpich2? -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Ma

Re: [gmx-users] GPU version of Gromacs

2013-08-19 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 8/19/13 5:38 AM, grita wrote: Hey guys, Is it possible to make a SD simulation with using the pull code in the GPU version of Gromacs? Have you tried it? -Justin -- == Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Pharmaceut

[gmx-users] GPU version of Gromacs

2013-08-19 Thread grita
Hey guys, Is it possible to make a SD simulation with using the pull code in the GPU version of Gromacs? Best, grita -- View this message in context: http://gromacs.5086.x6.nabble.com/GPU-version-of-Gromacs-tp5010581.html Sent from the GROMACS Users Forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -

Re: [gmx-users] GPU metadynamics

2013-08-15 Thread Albert
On 08/15/2013 11:21 AM, Jacopo Sgrignani wrote: Dear Albert to run parallel jobs on multiple GPUs you should use something like this: mpirun -np (number of parallel sessions on CPU) mdrun_mpi .. -gpu_id so you will have 4 calculations for GPU. Jacopo thanks a lot for

Re: [gmx-users] GPU metadynamics

2013-08-15 Thread Jacopo Sgrignani
Dear Albert to run parallel jobs on multiple GPUs you should use something like this: mpirun -np (number of parallel sessions on CPU) mdrun_mpi .. -gpu_id so you will have 4 calculations for GPU. Jacopo Inviato da iPad Il giorno 15/ago/2013, alle ore 10:56, Albert ha sc

[gmx-users] GPU metadynamics

2013-08-15 Thread Albert
Hello: I've got two GTX690 GPU in a workstation, and I compiled gromacs-4.6.3 with plumed and MPI support. I am trying to run some metadynamics with mdrun with command: mdrun_mpi -s md.tpr -v -g md.log -o md.trr -x md.xtc -plumed plumed2.dat -e md.edr but mdrun can only use 1 GPU as indi

Re: [gmx-users] GPU + surface

2013-08-09 Thread Lucio Montero
Hello. ¿Have you removed periodicity?. Because you may only be seeing traversal of water molecules among copies of the periodic system. Lucio Montero Ph. D. student Instituto de Biotecnologia, UNAM Mexico El 08/08/13 07:39, Ondrej Kroutil escribió: Dear GMX users. I have done simulation of

RE: [gmx-users] GPU + surface

2013-08-08 Thread Berk Hess
Aug 2013 14:39:59 +0200 > From: okrou...@gmail.com > To: gmx-users@gromacs.org > Subject: [gmx-users] GPU + surface > > Dear GMX users. > I have done simulation of ions and water near quartz surface > (ClayFF) using GPU (GTX580) and Gromacs (4.6.1, single precision, 64 > b

[gmx-users] GPU + surface

2013-08-08 Thread Ondrej Kroutil
Dear GMX users. I have done simulation of ions and water near quartz surface (ClayFF) using GPU (GTX580) and Gromacs (4.6.1, single precision, 64 bit, SSE4.1, fftw-3.3.3) and have observed strange behavior of water and ions. Its NVT simulation with freezed surface atoms (see .mdp below) and negat

Re: Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-08-01 Thread Szilárd Páll
erties to the MB should I consider for such system ? >> >> James >> >> >> 2013/5/28 lloyd riggs >> >>> Dear Dr. Pali, >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Stephan Watkins >>> >>> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013 um

Re: [gmx-users] gpu cluster explanation

2013-07-23 Thread Francesco
Hi Richard, Thank you for the help and sorry for the delay in my reply. I tried some test run changing some parameters (e.g. removing PME) and I was able to reach 20ns/day, so I think that 9-11 ns/day it's the max that I can obtain for my setting. thank your again for your help. cheers, Fra On

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 (http://www.gromacs.org/Documentat

[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 and

[gmx-users] GPU cannot be detected

2013-07-04 Thread Albert
Hello: I've installed Gromacs-4.6.2 in GPU cluster with following configurations: CC=icc FC=ifort F77=ifort CXX=icpc CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/export/intel/cmkl/include/fftw:/export/mpi/mvapich2-1.8-rhes6 cmake .. -DGMX_MPI=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/albert/install/gromacs -DGMX_GPU=ON -DBUIL

Re: Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-06-27 Thread James Starlight
kins >> >> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013 um 19:50 Uhr >> *Von:* "Szilárd Páll" >> >> *An:* "Discussion list for GROMACS users" >> *Betreff:* Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation >> Dear all, >> >> As far as I un

Re: [gmx-users] GPU / CPU load imblance

2013-06-25 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 6/25/13 6:33 PM, Dwey wrote: Hi gmx-users, I used 8-cores AMD CPU with a GTX680 GPU [ with 1536 CUDA Cores] to run an example of Umbrella Sampling provided by Justin. I am happy that GPU acceleration indeed helps me reduce significant time ( from 34 hours to 7 hours) of computation

[gmx-users] GPU / CPU load imblance

2013-06-25 Thread Dwey
Hi gmx-users, I used 8-cores AMD CPU with a GTX680 GPU [ with 1536 CUDA Cores] to run an example of Umbrella Sampling provided by Justin. I am happy that GPU acceleration indeed helps me reduce significant time ( from 34 hours to 7 hours) of computation in this example. However, I found th

Re: [gmx-users] GPU ECC question

2013-06-09 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Albert wrote: > Hello: > > Recently I found a strange question about Gromacs-4.6.2 on GPU workstaion. > In my GTX690 machine, when I run md production I found that the ECC is on. > However, in my another GTX590 machine, I found the ECC was off: > > 4 GPUs detected:

[gmx-users] GPU ECC question

2013-06-08 Thread Albert
Hello: Recently I found a strange question about Gromacs-4.6.2 on GPU workstaion. In my GTX690 machine, when I run md production I found that the ECC is on. However, in my another GTX590 machine, I found the ECC was off: 4 GPUs detected: #0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590, compute cap.: 2.0, ECC:

Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU problem

2013-06-04 Thread lloyd riggs
  Thanks, thats exact what I was looking for.   Stephan Gesendet: Dienstag, 04. Juni 2013 um 22:28 Uhr Von: "Justin Lemkul" An: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" Betreff: Re: [gmx-users] GPU problem On 6/4/13 3:52 PM, lloyd riggs wrote: > Dear All or anyone,

Re: [gmx-users] GPU problem

2013-06-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 6/4/13 3:52 PM, lloyd riggs wrote: Dear All or anyone, A stupid question. Is there an script anyone knows of to convert a 53a6ff from .top redirects to the gromacs/top directory to something like a ligand .itp? This is usefull at the moment. Example: [bond] 6 7 2gb_5 to [b

RE:[gmx-users] GPU problem

2013-06-04 Thread lloyd riggs
  Dear All or anyone,   A stupid question.  Is there an script anyone knows of to convert a 53a6ff from .top redirects to the gromacs/top directory to something like a ligand .itp?  This is usefull at the moment.  Example:   [bond]     6 7 2    gb_5   to   [bonds] ; ai  aj  fu   

Re: [gmx-users] GPU problem

2013-06-04 Thread Szilárd Páll
"-nt" is mostly a backward compatibility option and sets the total number of threads (per rank). Instead, you should set both "-ntmpi" (or -np with MPI) and "-ntomp". However, note that unless a single mdrun uses *all* cores/hardware threads on a node, it won't pin the threads to cores. Failing to

Re: [gmx-users] GPU problem

2013-06-04 Thread Albert
On 06/04/2013 11:22 AM, Chandan Choudhury wrote: Hi Albert, I think using -nt flag (-nt=16) with mdrun would solve your problem. Chandan thank you so much. it works well now. ALBERT -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Ple

Re: [gmx-users] GPU problem

2013-06-04 Thread Chandan Choudhury
Hi Albert, I think using -nt flag (-nt=16) with mdrun would solve your problem. Chandan -- Chandan kumar Choudhury NCL, Pune INDIA On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Albert wrote: > Dear: > > I've got four GPU in one workstation. I am trying to run two GPU job with > command: > > mdrun -s md

[gmx-users] GPU problem

2013-06-04 Thread Albert
Dear: I've got four GPU in one workstation. I am trying to run two GPU job with command: mdrun -s md.tpr -gpu_id 01 mdrun -s md.tpr -gpu_id 23 there are 32 CPU in this workstation. I found that each job trying to use the whole CPU, and there are 64 sub job when these two GPU mdrun submitte

Re: Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-28 Thread James Starlight
the MB should I consider for such system ? James 2013/5/28 lloyd riggs > Dear Dr. Pali, > > Thank you, > > Stephan Watkins > > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013 um 19:50 Uhr > *Von:* "Szilárd Páll" > > *An:* "Discussion list for GROMACS users"

Aw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-28 Thread lloyd riggs
Dear Dr. Pali,   Thank you,   Stephan Watkins   Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013 um 19:50 Uhr Von: "Szilárd Páll" An: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" Betreff: Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation Dear all, As far as I understand, the OP is interested in h

Re: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-28 Thread Szilárd Páll
mx.ch>> > Reply-To: Discussion users > mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org>> > Date: Saturday, 25 May 2013 12:02 > To: Discussion users mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org>> > Subject: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation > > More RAM the better, and the best I have s

Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-28 Thread Szilárd Páll
for 1 ns sim, but tried simple large 800 amino, 25,000 solvent > eq (NVT or NPT) runs and they clock at around 1 hour real for say 50 ps > eq's > > Stephan > > Gesendet: Samstag, 25. Mai 2013 um 07:54 Uhr > Von: "James Starlight" > An: "Discussion

Re: Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-27 Thread James Starlight
r > *Von:* "James Starlight" > > *An:* "Discussion list for GROMACS users" > *Betreff:* Re: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation > Richard, > > thanks for suggestion! > > Assuming that I'm using 2 high end GeForce's what performance b

Aw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-25 Thread lloyd riggs
o the exact same performance the other person had.   Stephan Gesendet: Samstag, 25. Mai 2013 um 15:19 Uhr Von: "James Starlight" An: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation Richard, thanks for suggestion! Assuming that I

Aw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-25 Thread lloyd riggs
arlight" An: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation Richard, thanks for suggestion! Assuming that I'm using 2 high end GeForce's what performance be better 1) in case of one i7 (4 or 6 nodes ) ? 2) in case of 8 core

Re: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-25 Thread James Starlight
; Reply-To: Discussion users gmx-users@gromacs.org>> > Date: Saturday, 25 May 2013 12:02 > To: Discussion users mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org>> > Subject: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation > > More RAM the better, and the best I have seen is 4 GPU work statio

Re: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-25 Thread Broadbent, Richard
E5 or core i7 would be a good choice. Richard From: lloyd riggs mailto:lloyd.ri...@gmx.ch>> Reply-To: Discussion users mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org>> Date: Saturday, 25 May 2013 12:02 To: Discussion users mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org>> Subject: Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based works

Aw: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-25 Thread lloyd riggs
r real for say 50 ps eq's   Stephan   Gesendet: Samstag, 25. Mai 2013 um 07:54 Uhr Von: "James Starlight" An: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" Betreff: Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation Dear Dr. Watkins! Thank you for the suggestions! In the local shops I

Re: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-25 Thread James Starlight
hr > *Von:* "James Starlight" > *An:* "Discussion list for GROMACS users" > *Betreff:* [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation > Dear Gromacs Users! > > > I'd like to build new workstation for performing simulation on GPU with > Gromacs 4.6 native cuda sup

Aw: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-24 Thread lloyd riggs
an Watkins   Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Mai 2013 um 13:17 Uhr Von: "James Starlight" An: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" Betreff: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation Dear Gromacs Users! I'd like to build new workstation for performing simulation on GPU with Gromacs 4.6

Aw: [gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-24 Thread lloyd riggs
wise their supposedly supposed to have all the same CUDA like libraries by the end of the summer (Portlandgroup , openCL), but I heard the same for 2 years now.   Sincerely,   Stephan Watkins   Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Mai 2013 um 13:17 Uhr Von: "James Starlight" An: "Discussion

[gmx-users] GPU-based workstation

2013-05-24 Thread James Starlight
Dear Gromacs Users! I'd like to build new workstation for performing simulation on GPU with Gromacs 4.6 native cuda support. Recently I've used such setup with Core i5 cpu and nvidia 670 GTX video and obtain good performance ( ~ 20 ns\day for typical 60.000 atom system with SD integrator) Now

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-05-02 Thread Albert
the problem is still there... :-( On 04/29/2013 06:06 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Albert wrote: >On 04/29/2013 03:47 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote: >> >>In that case, while it isn't very likely, the issue could be caused by >>some implementation detail which aims

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-29 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Albert wrote: > On 04/29/2013 03:47 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote: >> >> In that case, while it isn't very likely, the issue could be caused by >> some implementation detail which aims to avoid performance loss caused >> by an issue in the NVIDIA drivers. >> >> Try runnin

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-29 Thread Albert
On 04/29/2013 03:47 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote: In that case, while it isn't very likely, the issue could be caused by some implementation detail which aims to avoid performance loss caused by an issue in the NVIDIA drivers. Try running with the GMX_CUDA_STREAMSYNC environment variable set. Btw, we

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-29 Thread Szilárd Páll
In that case, while it isn't very likely, the issue could be caused by some implementation detail which aims to avoid performance loss caused by an issue in the NVIDIA drivers. Try running with the GMX_CUDA_STREAMSYNC environment variable set. Btw, were there any other processes using the GPU whi

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-29 Thread Albert
On 04/29/2013 03:31 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote: The segv indicates that mdrun crashed and not that the machine was restarted. The GPU detection output (both on stderr and log) should show whether ECC is "on" (and so does the nvidia-smi tool). Cheers, -- Szilárd yes it was on: Reading file heavy.

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-29 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Albert wrote: > On 04/28/2013 05:45 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: >> >> >> Frequent failures suggest instability in the simulated system. Check your >> .log file or stderr for informative Gromacs diagnostic information. >> >> -Justin > > > > my log file didn't have any

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-29 Thread Albert
On 04/28/2013 05:45 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: Frequent failures suggest instability in the simulated system. Check your .log file or stderr for informative Gromacs diagnostic information. -Justin my log file didn't have any errors, the end of topped log file something like: DD step 225

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-29 Thread Albert
Hello: yes, I tried the CPU only version, it goes well and didn't stop. I am not sure whether I have ECC on or not. There are 4 Tesla K20 and one GTX650 in the workstation, after compilation, I simple submit the jobs with command: mdrun -s md.tpr -gpu_id 0234 I submit the same system in a

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-29 Thread Szilárd Páll
Have you tried running on CPUs only just to see if the issue persists? Unless the issue does not occur with the same binary on the same hardware running on CPUs only, I doubt it's a problem in the code. Do you have ECC on? -- Szilárd On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Albert wrote: > Dear: > >

Re: [gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-28 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/28/13 11:27 AM, Albert wrote: Dear: I am running MD jobs in a workstation with 4 K20 GPU and I found that the job always failed with following messages from time to time: [tesla:03432] *** Process received signal *** [tesla:03432] Signal: Segmentation fault (11) [tesla:03432] Signal

[gmx-users] GPU job often stopped

2013-04-28 Thread Albert
Dear: I am running MD jobs in a workstation with 4 K20 GPU and I found that the job always failed with following messages from time to time: [tesla:03432] *** Process received signal *** [tesla:03432] Signal: Segmentation fault (11) [tesla:03432] Signal code: Address not mapped (1) [tesla:0

Re: [gmx-users] GPU efficiency question

2013-04-27 Thread Mark Abraham
Probably the part of the calculation done on the GPU is not rate limiting. There's no point having four chefs to make one dish... Look at the beginning and end of your .log files for diagnostic information. If this is a single node, you should be using threadMPI, not real MPI. Generally four CPU c

[gmx-users] GPU efficiency question

2013-04-26 Thread Albert
Dear: I've got two GTX690 in a a workstation and I found that when I run the md production with following two command: mpirun -np 4 md_run_mpi or mpirun -np 2 md_run_mpi the efficiency are the same. I notice that gromacs can detect 4 GPU (probably because GTX690 have two core..): 4

Re: [gmx-users] GPU performance

2013-04-10 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Benjamin Bobay wrote: > Szilárd - > > First, many thanks for the reply. > > Second, I am glad that I am not crazy. > > Ok so based on your suggestions, I think I know what the problem is/was. > There was a sander process running on 1 of the CPUs. Clearly GROMACS

Re: [gmx-users] GPU performance

2013-04-09 Thread Mark Abraham
On Apr 10, 2013 3:34 AM, "Benjamin Bobay" wrote: > > Szilárd - > > First, many thanks for the reply. > > Second, I am glad that I am not crazy. > > Ok so based on your suggestions, I think I know what the problem is/was. > There was a sander process running on 1 of the CPUs. Clearly GROMACS was >

Re: [gmx-users] GPU performance

2013-04-09 Thread Benjamin Bobay
Szilárd - First, many thanks for the reply. Second, I am glad that I am not crazy. Ok so based on your suggestions, I think I know what the problem is/was. There was a sander process running on 1 of the CPUs. Clearly GROMACS was trying to use 4 with "Using 4 OpenMP thread". I just did not catch

Re: [gmx-users] GPU performance

2013-04-09 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi Ben, That performance is not reasonable at all - neither for CPU only run on your quad-core Sandy Bridge, nor for the CPU+GPU run. For the latter you should be getting more like 50 ns/day or so. What's strange about your run is that the CPU-GPU load balancing is picking a *very* long cut-off w

[gmx-users] GPU performance

2013-04-09 Thread Benjamin Bobay
Good afternoon - I recently installed gromacs-4.6 on CentOS6.3 and the installation went just fine. I have a Tesla C2075 GPU. I then downloaded the benchmark directories and ran a bench mark on the GPU/ dhfr-solv-PME.bench This is what I got: Using 1 MPI thread Using 4 OpenMP threads 1 GPU de

Re: [gmx-users] GPU version of GROMACS 4.6 in MacOS cluster

2013-03-08 Thread George Patargias
Hi Szilard Thanks for this tip; it was extremely useful. The problem was indeed the incompatibility between the installed NVIDIA driver and the CUDA 5.0 runtime library. Installation of an older driver solved the problem. The programs devideQuery etc can now detect the GPU. GROMACS can also detec

Re: [gmx-users] GPU version of GROMACS 4.6 in MacOS cluster

2013-03-01 Thread Albert
The easiest way for solution is to kill MacOS ans switch to Linux. ;-) Albert On 03/01/2013 06:03 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote: Hi George, As I said before, that just means that most probably the GPU driver is not compatible with the CUDA runtime (libcudart) that you installed with the CUDA toolki

Re: [gmx-users] GPU version of GROMACS 4.6 in MacOS cluster

2013-03-01 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi George, As I said before, that just means that most probably the GPU driver is not compatible with the CUDA runtime (libcudart) that you installed with the CUDA toolkit. I've no clue about the Mac OS installers and releases, you'll have to do the research on that. Let us know if you have furthe

Re: [gmx-users] GPU version of GROMACS 4.6 in MacOS cluster

2013-03-01 Thread George Patargias
Hi Szilαrd Thanks for your reply. I have run the deviceQuery utility and what I got back is /deviceQuery Starting... CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking) cudaGetDeviceCount returned 38 -> no CUDA-capable device is detected Should I understand from this that the CUDA

Re: [gmx-users] GPU version of GROMACS 4.6 in MacOS cluster

2013-03-01 Thread Szilárd Páll
HI, That looks like the driver does not work or is incompatible with the runtime. Please get the SDK, compile a simple program, e.g. deviceQuery and see if that works (I suspect that it won't). Regarding your machines, just FYI, the Quadro 4000 is a pretty slow card (somewhat slower than a GTX 46

[gmx-users] GPU version of GROMACS 4.6 in MacOS cluster

2013-02-28 Thread George Patargias
Hello We are trying to install the GPU version of GROMACS 4.6 on our own MacOS cluster. So for the cluster nodes that have the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 cards: - We have downloaded and install the MAC OS X CUDA 5.0 Production Release from here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads placing the l

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-18 Thread Albert
On 12/17/2012 08:06 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: It seems to me that the system is simply crashing like any other that becomes unstable. Does the simulation run at all on plain CPU? -Justin Thank you very much Justin, it's really helpful. I've checked that the structure after minization and f

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 12/17/12 2:03 PM, Albert wrote: well, that's one of the log files. I've tried both VERSION 4.6-dev-20121004-5d6c49d VERSION 4.6-beta1 VERSION 4.6-beta2 and the latest 5.0 by git. the problems are the same.:-( It seems to me that the system is simply crashing like any other that beco

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Albert
well, that's one of the log files. I've tried both VERSION 4.6-dev-20121004-5d6c49d VERSION 4.6-beta1 VERSION 4.6-beta2 and the latest 5.0 by git. the problems are the same.:-( On 12/17/2012 07:56 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Albert wrote: >hello: > > I r

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Albert wrote: > > > hello: > > > > I reduced the GPU to two, and it said: > > > > Back Off! I just backed up nvt.log to ./#nvt.log.1# > > Reading file nvt.tpr, VERSION 4.6-dev-20121004-5d6c49d (single precisi

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Abraham
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Albert wrote: > hello: > > I reduced the GPU to two, and it said: > > Back Off! I just backed up nvt.log to ./#nvt.log.1# > Reading file nvt.tpr, VERSION 4.6-dev-20121004-5d6c49d (single precision) > This is a development version from October 1. Please use the m

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi Albert, Thanks for the testing. Last questions. - What version are you using? Is it beta2 release or latest git? if it's the former, getting the latest git might help if... - (do) you happen to be using GMX_GPU_ACCELERATION=None (you shouldn't!)? A bug triggered only with this setting has bee

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Albert
On 12/17/2012 06:08 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote: Hi, How about GPU emulation or CPU-only runs? Also, please try setting the number of therads to 1 (-ntomp 1). -- Szilárd hello: I am running in GPU emulation mode with the GMX_EMULATE_GPU=1 env. var set (and to match closer the GPU setup with -nt

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi, How about GPU emulation or CPU-only runs? Also, please try setting the number of therads to 1 (-ntomp 1). -- Szilárd On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Albert wrote: > hello: > > I reduced the GPU to two, and it said: > > Back Off! I just backed up nvt.log to ./#nvt.log.1# > Reading file

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Albert
hello: I reduced the GPU to two, and it said: Back Off! I just backed up nvt.log to ./#nvt.log.1# Reading file nvt.tpr, VERSION 4.6-dev-20121004-5d6c49d (single precision) NOTE: GPU(s) found, but the current simulation can not use GPUs To use a GPU, set the mdp option: cutoff-scheme = Ve

Re: [gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi, That unfortunately tell exactly about the reason why mdrun is stuck. Can you reproduce the issue on another machines or with different launch configurations? At which step does it get stuck (-stepout 1 can help)? Please try the following: - try running on a single GPU; - try running on CPUs o

[gmx-users] GPU running problem with GMX-4.6 beta2

2012-12-17 Thread Albert
hello: I am running GMX-4.6 beta2 GPU work in a 24 CPU core workstation with two GTX590, it stacked there without any output i.e the .xtc file size is always 0 after hours of running. Here is the md.log file I found: Using CUDA 8x8x8 non-bonded kernels Potential shift: LJ r^-12: 0.112 r^-6

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-12-11 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Mirco Wahab < mirco.wa...@chemie.tu-freiberg.de> wrote: > Am 11.12.2012 16:04, schrieb Szilárd Páll: > > It looks like some gcc 4.7-s don't work with CUDA, although I've been >> using >> various Ubuntu/Linaro versions, most recently 4.7.2 and had no >> issues what

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-12-11 Thread Mirco Wahab
Am 11.12.2012 16:04, schrieb Szilárd Páll: It looks like some gcc 4.7-s don't work with CUDA, although I've been using various Ubuntu/Linaro versions, most recently 4.7.2 and had no issues whatsoever. Some people seem to have bumped into the same problem (see http://goo.gl/1onBz or http://goo.gl/

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-12-11 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi Thomas, It looks like some gcc 4.7-s don't work with CUDA, although I've been using various Ubuntu/Linaro versions, most recently 4.7.2 and had no issues whatsoever. Some people seem to have bumped into the same problem (see http://goo.gl/1onBz or http://goo.gl/JEnuk) and the suggested fix is t

Re: [gmx-users] GPU compatibility

2012-12-10 Thread Mark Abraham
Correct, C1060 does not have the CUDA 2.0 compute capability required for GROMACS 4.6. We will not have the ability to support GPU cards of lower capability in the future. Unfortunately, your only GROMACS options are probably to use the OpenMM functionality in 4.5.x (which is still present in 4.6,

[gmx-users] GPU compatibility

2012-12-09 Thread Cara Kreck
Hi, We've got a GPU cluster in our group and have really been looking forward to running gromacs on it with full functionality. Unfortunately, it looks like our NVIDIA Tesla C1060 cards aren't supported by the 4.6 beta. I was just wondering if there was any chance that they would be support

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-12-09 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
> > gcc 4.7.2 is not supported by any CUDA version. > > > > I suggest that you just fix it by editing the include/host_config.h and > changing the version check macro (line 82 AFAIK). I've never had real > problems with using new and officially not supported gcc-s, the version > check is more of a

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-26 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Thomas Evangelidis wrote: > Hi Szilárd, > > I was able to run code compiled with icc 13 on Fedora 17, but as I don't > > have Intel Compiler v13 on this machine I can't check it now. > > > > Please check if it works for you with gcc 4.7.2 (which is the default) > a

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-25 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
Hi Szilárd, I was able to run code compiled with icc 13 on Fedora 17, but as I don't > have Intel Compiler v13 on this machine I can't check it now. > > Please check if it works for you with gcc 4.7.2 (which is the default) and > let me know if you succeed. The performance difference between icc a

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-21 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Thomas Evangelidis wrote: > >> Hi Szilárd, >> >> I compiled with the Intel compilers, not gcc. In case I am missing >> something, these are the versions I have: >> > > Indeed, I see it now in the log file. Let

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-19 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Thomas Evangelidis wrote: > Hi Szilárd, > > I compiled with the Intel compilers, not gcc. In case I am missing > something, these are the versions I have: > Indeed, I see it now in the log file. Let me try with icc 13 and will get back to you. > > glibc.i686

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-19 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
Hi Szilárd, I compiled with the Intel compilers, not gcc. In case I am missing something, these are the versions I have: glibc.i6862.15-57.fc17 @updates glibc.x86_64 2.15-57.fc17 @updates glibc-common.x86_64 2.15-57.fc17 @upda

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-19 Thread Szilárd Páll
Thomas & Albert, We are unable to reproduce the issue on FC 17 with glibc 2.15-58 and gcc 4.7.2. Please try to update your packages (you should have updates available for glibc), try recompiling with the latest 4.6 code and report back whether you succeed. Cheers, -- Szilárd On Fri, Nov 16, 2

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-16 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi Albert, Apologies for hijacking your thread. Do you happen to have Fedora 17 as well? -- Szilárd On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Albert wrote: > hello: > > I am running Gromacs 4.6 GPU on a workstation with two GTX 660 Ti (2 x > 1344 CUDA cores), and I got the following warnings: > > tha

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-16 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi Thomas, The output you get means that you don't have any of the macros we try to use although your man pages seem to be referring to them. Hence, I'm really clueless why is this happening. Could you please file a bug report on redmine.gromacs.org and add both the initial output as well as my pa

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-15 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/15/12 9:53 AM, Thomas Evangelidis wrote: Hi Szilárd, This is the warning message I get this time: WARNING: Oversubscribing the available -66 logical CPU cores with 1 thread-MPI threads. This will cause considerable performance loss! I have also attached the md.log file. At

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-14 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi Thomas, Could you please try applying the attached patch (git apply hardware_detect.patch in the 4.6 source root) and let me know what the output is? This should show which sysconf macro is used and what its return value is as well as indicate if none of the macros are in fact defined by your

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-10 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
On 10 November 2012 03:21, Szilárd Páll wrote: > Hi, > > You must have an odd sysconf version! Could you please check what is the > sysconf system variable's name in the sysconf man page (man sysconf) where > it says something like: > > _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN > The number of proces

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-09 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi, You must have an odd sysconf version! Could you please check what is the sysconf system variable's name in the sysconf man page (man sysconf) where it says something like: _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN The number of processors currently online. The first line should be one of the fol

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-09 Thread Szilárd Páll
Hi, On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Thomas Evangelidis wrote: > Hi, > > I get these two warnings when I run the dhfr/GPU/dhfr-solv-PME.bench > benchmark with the following command line: > > mdrun_intel_cuda5 -v -s topol.tpr -testverlet > > "WARNING: Oversubscribing the available 0 logical CPU co

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-05 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
Hi, I get these two warnings when I run the dhfr/GPU/dhfr-solv-PME.bench benchmark with the following command line: mdrun_intel_cuda5 -v -s topol.tpr -testverlet "WARNING: Oversubscribing the available 0 logical CPU cores with 1 thread-MPI threads." 0 logical CPU cores? Isn't this bizarre? My C

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-05 Thread Szilárd Páll
The first warning indicates that you are starting more threads than the hardware supports which would explain the poor performance. Could share a log file of the suspiciously slow run as well as the command line you used to start mdrun? Cheers, -- Szilárd On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Albert

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-04 Thread Albert
well, IC. the performance is rather poor than GTX590. 32ns/day vs 4 ns/day probably that's also something related to the warnings? THX On 11/04/2012 01:59 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/4/12 4:55 AM, Albert wrote: hello: I am running Gromacs 4.6 GPU on a workstation with two GTX 660

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-04 Thread Thomas Evangelidis
I 'm also get the first warning ("oversubscribing the available...") and see no obvious performance gain. Do you know how to avoid that? thanks, Thomas On 4 November 2012 14:59, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 11/4/12 4:55 AM, Albert wrote: > >> hello: >> >> I am running Gromacs 4.6 GPU on a

Re: [gmx-users] GPU warnings

2012-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/12 4:55 AM, Albert wrote: hello: I am running Gromacs 4.6 GPU on a workstation with two GTX 660 Ti (2 x 1344 CUDA cores), and I got the following warnings: thank you very much. ---messages--- WARNING: On node 0: oversubscribi

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