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Hi,<br><br>Another thing:<br>if you are running NPT with each replica single processor,<br>you need to upgrade to 4.0.4 (currently only on ftp.gromacs.org),<br>since 4.0 - 4.0.3 have a bug with checkpointing single processor NPT runs<br>(parallel is fine).<br><br>Berk<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: massimiliano.bonomi@gmail.com<br>To: gmx-users@gromacs.org<br>Subject: Re: [gmx-users] replica restart from checkpoints<br>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:47:23 +0100<br><br>Thanks for your reply...<div><br><div><blockquote><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="EC_hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Which version are you using?<br>In 4.0.3 I made things slightly better by allowing checkpoints<br>to have different step numbers, as long as they fall within<br>the same exchange attempt steps.<br></div></span></blockquote><br><div>I'm using 4.0.3. Same problem with the former versions 4.0.x.</div><br><blockquote><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="EC_hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">This could still cause problems when the steps in the checkpoints<br>differ very much. But if you use -maxh all simulations should finish<br>closely within each other.</div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>Actually I'm using -maxh!</div><div><br><blockquote><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="EC_hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><br>(you can always go back to using tpbconv)<br><br></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately I have no trr files, but just xtc with only solute...</div><br><blockquote><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="EC_hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Synchronizing the checkpoint writing is a bit complicated<br>and will probably only be done in 4.1.<br><br></div></span></blockquote><div>Is it not possible to define the writing stride in terms of MD steps?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Massimiliano</div><br><blockquote><span class="EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="EC_hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Berk<br><br>&gt; From:<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:massimiliano.bonomi@gmail.com">massimiliano.bonomi@gmail.com</a><br>&gt; To:<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org">gmx-users@gromacs.org</a><br>&gt; Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:14:15 +0100<br>&gt; Subject: [gmx-users] replica restart from checkpoints<br>&gt;<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&gt; Dear Gromacs Users,<br>&gt;<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&gt; I'm experiencing some problems when restarting a replica exchange run<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&gt; from previous checkpoint files.<br>&gt; It often happens to me that the number of MD steps done in the<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&gt; previous run is not the<br>&gt; same for all the replica. If this is the case, the program stops.<br>&gt; This may happen since checkpoints are written with a stride expressed<br>&gt; in REAL time (every 15 minutes) and replica on different processors<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&gt; may have run<br>&gt; for different number of steps in the same amount of time.<br>&gt;<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&gt; Is it possible to specify the checkpoint writing stride in number of<span class="EC_Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>&gt; steps instead of real time?<br>&gt;<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