After how many steps do you get the error?<div><br></div><div>Do you get the error also with -dlb yes and the environment variable GMX_DLB_FLOP set to 1 or 2?</div><div><br></div><div>Roland</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:54 PM, TJ Mustard <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mustardt@onid.orst.edu">mustardt@onid.orst.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">




  
    
    
  

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    <p style="margin:0px">Found that if I set the setting of &quot;-dlb no&quot; when running the mdrun it would not fail. How could dynamic load balancing do this?</p>

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       On September 28, 2010 at 3:21 AM TJ Mustard &lt;<a href="mailto:mustardt@onid.orst.edu" target="_blank">mustardt@onid.orst.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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        <p style="margin:0px">Hey all,</p>

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        <p style="margin:0px">Here is another error that I keep getting. I am trying to &quot;speed up&quot; my md runs with -heavyh and longer time steps. I don&#39;t get LINCS errors but I do get this...</p>

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        <p style="margin:0px">Back Off! I just backed up prlog.log to ./#prlog.log.1#<br>
         Getting Loaded...<br>
         Reading file monomer_pr.tpr, VERSION 4.5.1 (single precision)<br>
         Starting 2 threads<br>
         Loaded with Money<br>
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         Making 1D domain decomposition 2 x 1 x 1<br>
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         Back Off! I just backed up pr.edr to ./#pr.edr.1#<br>
         starting mdrun &#39;Protein in water&#39;<br>
         25000 steps,    100.0 ps.<br>
         step 900, will finish Mon Sep 27 18:19:07 2010imb F 18%<br>
         NOTE: Turning on dynamic load balancing<br>
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         step 1600, will finish Mon Sep 27 18:18:42 2010vol 0.92  imb F  1%<br>
         A list of missing interactions:<br>
                 LJC Pairs NB of    278 missing      1<br>
                   exclusions of   6966 missing      1<br>
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         -------------------------------------------------------<br>
         Program g4.5.1-mdrun, VERSION 4.5.1<br>
         Source code file: domdec_top.c, line: 173<br>
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         Software inconsistency error:<br>
         Some interactions seem to be assigned multiple times<br>
         For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS<br>
         website at <a href="http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors" target="_blank">http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors</a><br>
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        <p style="margin:0px">Some settings:</p>

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        <p style="margin:0px">define                   = -DPOSRES</p>

        <p style="margin:0px">dt                       = 0.004<br>
         nsteps                   = 25000</p>

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        <p style="margin:0px">; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW<br>
         ; Method for doing electrostatics<br>
         coulombtype              = PME  ; = Cutoff<br>
         rcoulomb-switch          = 0    ; = 0<br>
         rcoulomb                 = 0.9  ; = 1<br>
         ; Relative dielectric constant for the medium and the reaction field<br>
         epsilon_r                = 1    ; = 1<br>
         epsilon_rf               = 1    ; = 1<br>
         ; Method for doing Van der Waals<br>
         vdw-type                 = Cut-off      ; = Cut-off<br>
         ; cut-off lengths      <br>
         rvdw-switch              = 0    ; = 0<br>
         rvdw                     = 1    ; = 1<br>
         ; Apply long range dispersion corrections for Energy and Pressure<br>
         DispCorr                 = No   ; = No<br>
         ; Extension of the potential lookup tables beyond the cut-off<br>
         table-extension          = 1    ; = 1<br>
         ; Seperate tables between energy group pairs<br>
         energygrp_table          =      ; =<br>
         ; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid<br>
         fourierspacing           = 0.12 ; = 0.12<br>
         ; FFT grid size, when a value is 0 fourierspacing will be used<br>
         fourier_nx               = 0    ; = 0<br>
         fourier_ny               = 0    ; = 0<br>
         fourier_nz               = 0    ; = 0<br>
         ; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters<br>
         pme_order                = 6    ; = 4<br>
         ewald_rtol               = 1e-05        ; = 1e-05<br>
         ewald_geometry           = 3d   ; = 3d<br>
         epsilon_surface          = 0    ; = 0<br>
         optimize_fft             = yes  ; = no</p>

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        <p style="margin:0px">; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS<br>
         ; Temperature coupling <br>
         tcoupl                   = v-rescale    ; = No<br>
         nsttcouple               = -1   ; = -1<br>
         nh-chain-length          = 10   ; = 10<br>
         ; Groups to couple separately<br>
         tc-grps                  = RNA SOL      ; =<br>
         ; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K)<br>
         tau-t                    = 0.1 0.1      ; =<br>
         ref-t                    = 300 300      ; =<br>
         ; Pressure coupling    <br>
         Pcoupl                   = Parrinello-Rahman    ; = No<br>
         Pcoupltype               = Isotropic<br>
         nstpcouple               = -1   ; = -1<br>
         ; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar)<br>
         tau-p                    = 1    ; = 1<br>
         compressibility          = 4.5e-5       ; =<br>
         ref-p                    = 1.0  ; =<br>
         ; Scaling of reference coordinates, No, All or COM<br>
         refcoord_scaling         = No   ; = No<br>
         ; Random seed for Andersen thermostat<br>
         andersen_seed            = 815131       ; = 815131</p>

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        <p style="margin:0px">gen-vel                  = yes  ; = no<br>
         gen-temp                 = 300  ; = 300<br>
         gen-seed                 = 173529       ; = 173529</p>

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        <p style="margin:0px">constraints              = all-bonds</p>

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        <p style="margin:0px">Any help would be appreciated. It also seems to be intermittent as I have 21 identical runs (with different lambda values) and some work and some don&#39;t. It also changes every time I run them.</p>


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         Thank you,<br>

        <p style="font-family:monospace;white-space:nowrap;margin:5px 0px 5px 0px">TJ Mustard<br>
         Email: <a href="mailto:mustardt@onid.orst.edu" target="_blank">mustardt@onid.orst.edu</a></p>
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    <p style="font-family:monospace;white-space:nowrap;margin:5px 0px 5px 0px">TJ Mustard<br>
    Email: <a href="mailto:mustardt@onid.orst.edu" target="_blank">mustardt@onid.orst.edu</a></p>
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