Re: [gmx-users] Limitation on the maximum number of OpenMPI threads

2014-09-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, Generally speaking, in the absence of accelerators, OpenMP as used in GROMACS 4.6/5.0 is only useful as you get down to around a few hundred atoms per core (details vary, but since you often can't get fewer than 512 cores of BG/Q the point is often moot there), and only at fairly low OpenMP th

[gmx-users] Limitation on the maximum number of OpenMPI threads

2014-09-08 Thread Abhi Acharya
Hello, I was trying to run a simulation on Gromacs-4.6.3 which has been compiled without thread MPI on a BlueGene/Q system. The configurations per node are as follows: PowerPC A2, 64-bit, 1.6 GHz, 16 cores SMP, 4 threads per core For running on 8 nodes I tried: srun mdrun_mpi -ntomp 64 But, th