On 18/11/2010 12:07 AM, Fabio Affinito wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to run a simulation with 4.5.3 (double precision) on bluegene.
Double precision comes with a big performance penalty, particularly on
BlueGene. Don't use it unless you know you need it.
I get this error:
NOTE: Turning on dynamic load balancing
vol 0.35! imb F 54% pme/F 2.06 step 100, remaining runtime: 3 s
vol 0.33! imb F 48% pme/F 2.09 step 200, remaining runtime: 2 s
vol 0.35! imb F 28% pme/F 2.42 step 300, remaining runtime: 1 s
vol 0.34! imb F 26% pme/F 2.46 step 400, remaining runtime: 0 s
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Program mdrun_mpi_bg_d, VERSION 4.5.3
Source code file: domdec.c, line: 3581
Fatal error:
Step 490: The X-size (0.799998) times the triclinic skew factor (1.000000) is
smaller than the smallest allowed cell size (0.800000) for domain decomposition
grid cell 4 2 2
For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
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"Everything's formed from particles" (Van der Graaf Generator)
Error on node 188, will try to stop all the nodes
Halting parallel program mdrun_mpi_bg_d on CPU 188 out of 256
I guess that your system is too small for 256 processors, or that if
it's large enough, that it's
www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up
The nature of the interactions in your system sets a minimum domain
decomposition cell size, of which GROMACS reports the calculation in the
.log file before the simulation proper starts. Each processor must have
at least one of those cells, so your system needs to be large enough
that you can have 256 such cells. Basically, the engineering in GROMACS
parallelism is not able to run small systems on large numbers of
processors - which would be inefficient to use anyway. If your BlueGene
can't offer fewer processors, then you need to change the simulation
system or the machine.
Mark
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