I have been using the HPCE on our campus for MD simulations using GROMACS. However, when I use the following script, after the job starts to run on the cluster, gets stuck at Step 0 in the log file.
#!/bin/bash
#PBS -e errorfile.err
#PBS -o logfile.log
#PBS -l walltime=24:00:00
#PBS -l select=4:ncpus=6
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
module load intel2020 gromacs2020.1
gmx mdrun -s npt.tpr -deffnm npt -v
The same would run smoothly if I submit the job with high number of processors like 40 or 80. However, there is generally a long queue for such high usage. What could be the reason for the job to not proceed beyond step 0 even after hours for lower number of processors?
Example output files when I had terminated the system after 12min. The .err file:
GROMACS: gmx mdrun, version 2020.1
Executable: /lfs/sware/gromacs2020.1/bin/gmx
Data prefix: /lfs/sware/gromacs2020.1
Working dir: /lfs/usrhome/phd/ch18d408/poly/long/350/1/try
Command line:
gmx mdrun -s npt.tpr -deffnm npt -v
Reading file npt.tpr, VERSION 2020.1 (single precision)
Changing nstlist from 10 to 100, rlist from 1 to 1
Using 6 MPI threads
Non-default thread affinity set, disabling internal thread affinity
Using 6 OpenMP threads per tMPI thread
starting mdrun 'polymer'
500000 steps, 1000.0 ps.
step 0
Received the TERM signal, stopping within 100 steps
And the .log file:
GROMACS: gmx mdrun, version 2020.1
Executable: /lfs/sware/gromacs2020.1/bin/gmx
Data prefix: /lfs/sware/gromacs2020.1
Working dir: /lfs/usrhome/phd/ch18d408/poly/long/350/1/try
Process ID: 15343
Command line:
gmx mdrun -s npt.tpr -deffnm npt -v
GROMACS version: 2020.1
Verified release checksum is 5cde61b9d46b24153ba84f499c996612640b965eff9a218f8f5e561f94ff4e43
Precision: single
Memory model: 64 bit
MPI library: thread_mpi
OpenMP support: enabled (GMX_OPENMP_MAX_THREADS = 64)
GPU support: CUDA
SIMD instructions: AVX_512
FFT library: Intel MKL
RDTSCP usage: enabled
TNG support: enabled
Hwloc support: disabled
Tracing support: disabled
C compiler: /lfs/sware/intel2019/compilers_and_libraries_2019.0.117/linux/mpi/intel64/bin/mpiicc Intel 19.0.0.20180804
C compiler flags: -xCORE-AVX512 -qopt-zmm-usage=high -mkl=sequential -std=gnu99 -ip -funroll-all-loops -alias-const -ansi-alias -no-prec-div -fimf-domain-exclusion=14 -qoverride-limits
C++ compiler: /lfs/sware/intel2019/compilers_and_libraries_2019.0.117/linux/mpi/intel64/bin/mpiicpc Intel 19.0.0.20180804
C++ compiler flags: -xCORE-AVX512 -qopt-zmm-usage=high -mkl=sequential -ip -funroll-all-loops -alias-const -ansi-alias -no-prec-div -fimf-domain-exclusion=14 -qoverride-limits -qopenmp
CUDA compiler: /lfs/sware/cuda-10.1/bin/nvcc nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver;Copyright (c) 2005-2019 NVIDIA Corporation;Built on Sun_Jul_28_19:07:16_PDT_2019;Cuda compilation tools, release 10.1, V10.1.243
CUDA compiler flags:-std=c++14;-gencode;arch=compute_30,code=sm_30;-gencode;arch=compute_35,code=sm_35;-gencode;arch=compute_37,code=sm_37;-gencode;arch=compute_50,code=sm_50;-gencode;arch=compute_52,code=sm_52;-gencode;arch=compute_60,code=sm_60;-gencode;arch=compute_61,code=sm_61;-gencode;arch=compute_70,code=sm_70;-gencode;arch=compute_35,code=compute_35;-gencode;arch=compute_50,code=compute_50;-gencode;arch=compute_52,code=compute_52;-gencode;arch=compute_60,code=compute_60;-gencode;arch=compute_61,code=compute_61;-gencode;arch=compute_70,code=compute_70;-gencode;arch=compute_75,code=compute_75;-use_fast_math;;-xCORE-AVX512 -qopt-zmm-usage=high -mkl=sequential -ip -funroll-all-loops -alias-const -ansi-alias -no-prec-div -fimf-domain-exclusion=14 -qoverride-limits -qopenmp
CUDA driver: 0.0
CUDA runtime: N/A
Running on 1 node with total 40 cores, 40 logical cores (GPU detection deactivated)
Hardware detected:
CPU info:
Vendor: Intel
Brand: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50GHz
Family: 6 Model: 85 Stepping: 7
Features: aes apic avx avx2 avx512f avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl clfsh cmov cx8 cx16 f16c fma hle htt intel lahf mmx msr nonstop_tsc pcid pclmuldq pdcm pdpe1gb popcnt pse rdrnd rdtscp rtm sse2 sse3 sse4.1 sse4.2 ssse3 tdt x2apic
Number of AVX-512 FMA units: 2
Hardware topology: Only logical processor count
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parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
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GROMACS 4.5: a high-throughput and highly parallel open source molecular
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molecular simulation
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Berendsen
GROMACS: Fast, Flexible and Free
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GROMACS: A message-passing parallel molecular dynamics implementation
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The number of OpenMP threads was set by environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS to 6
Input Parameters:
integrator = md
tinit = 0
dt = 0.002
nsteps = 500000
init-step = 0
simulation-part = 1
comm-mode = Linear
nstcomm = 100
bd-fric = 0
ld-seed = -464515634
emtol = 10
emstep = 0.01
niter = 20
fcstep = 0
nstcgsteep = 1000
nbfgscorr = 10
rtpi = 0.05
nstxout = 0
nstvout = 0
nstfout = 0
nstlog = 500
nstcalcenergy = 100
nstenergy = 500
nstxout-compressed = 500
compressed-x-precision = 1000
cutoff-scheme = Verlet
nstlist = 10
pbc = xyz
periodic-molecules = false
verlet-buffer-tolerance = 0.005
rlist = 1
coulombtype = PME
coulomb-modifier = Potential-shift
rcoulomb-switch = 0
rcoulomb = 1
epsilon-r = 1
epsilon-rf = inf
vdw-type = Cut-off
vdw-modifier = Potential-shift
rvdw-switch = 0
rvdw = 1
DispCorr = EnerPres
table-extension = 1
fourierspacing = 0.16
fourier-nx = 128
fourier-ny = 128
fourier-nz = 128
pme-order = 4
ewald-rtol = 1e-05
ewald-rtol-lj = 0.001
lj-pme-comb-rule = Geometric
ewald-geometry = 0
epsilon-surface = 0
tcoupl = V-rescale
nsttcouple = 10
nh-chain-length = 0
print-nose-hoover-chain-variables = false
pcoupl = Berendsen
pcoupltype = Isotropic
nstpcouple = 10
tau-p = 2
compressibility (3x3):
compressibility[ 0]={ 4.50000e-05, 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00}
compressibility[ 1]={ 0.00000e+00, 4.50000e-05, 0.00000e+00}
compressibility[ 2]={ 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00, 4.50000e-05}
ref-p (3x3):
ref-p[ 0]={ 3.50000e+02, 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00}
ref-p[ 1]={ 0.00000e+00, 3.50000e+02, 0.00000e+00}
ref-p[ 2]={ 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00, 3.50000e+02}
refcoord-scaling = COM
posres-com (3):
posres-com[0]=-4.31721e-03
posres-com[1]= 2.26425e-01
posres-com[2]= 9.22131e-01
posres-comB (3):
posres-comB[0]=-4.31721e-03
posres-comB[1]= 2.26425e-01
posres-comB[2]= 9.22131e-01
QMMM = false
QMconstraints = 0
QMMMscheme = 0
MMChargeScaleFactor = 1
qm-opts:
ngQM = 0
constraint-algorithm = Lincs
continuation = false
Shake-SOR = false
shake-tol = 0.0001
lincs-order = 4
lincs-iter = 1
lincs-warnangle = 30
nwall = 0
wall-type = 9-3
wall-r-linpot = -1
wall-atomtype[0] = -1
wall-atomtype[1] = -1
wall-density[0] = 0
wall-density[1] = 0
wall-ewald-zfac = 3
pull = false
awh = false
rotation = false
interactiveMD = false
disre = No
disre-weighting = Conservative
disre-mixed = false
dr-fc = 1000
dr-tau = 0
nstdisreout = 100
orire-fc = 0
orire-tau = 0
nstorireout = 100
free-energy = no
cos-acceleration = 0
deform (3x3):
deform[ 0]={ 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00}
deform[ 1]={ 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00}
deform[ 2]={ 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00, 0.00000e+00}
simulated-tempering = false
swapcoords = no
userint1 = 0
userint2 = 0
userint3 = 0
userint4 = 0
userreal1 = 0
userreal2 = 0
userreal3 = 0
userreal4 = 0
applied-forces:
electric-field:
x:
E0 = 0
omega = 0
t0 = 0
sigma = 0
y:
E0 = 0
omega = 0
t0 = 0
sigma = 0
z:
E0 = 0
omega = 0
t0 = 0
sigma = 0
density-guided-simulation:
active = false
group = protein
similarity-measure = inner-product
atom-spreading-weight = unity
force-constant = 1e+09
gaussian-transform-spreading-width = 0.2
gaussian-transform-spreading-range-in-multiples-of-width = 4
reference-density-filename = reference.mrc
nst = 1
normalize-densities = true
adaptive-force-scaling = false
adaptive-force-scaling-time-constant = 4
grpopts:
nrdf: 31229
ref-t: 298
tau-t: 0.5
annealing: No
annealing-npoints: 0
acc: 0 0 0
nfreeze: N N N
energygrp-flags[ 0]: 0
Changing nstlist from 10 to 100, rlist from 1 to 1
Initializing Domain Decomposition on 6 ranks
Dynamic load balancing: locked
Minimum cell size due to atom displacement: 0.703 nm
Initial maximum distances in bonded interactions:
two-body bonded interactions: 0.403 nm, LJ-14, atoms 30848 30853
multi-body bonded interactions: 0.403 nm, Ryckaert-Bell., atoms 30853 30848
Minimum cell size due to bonded interactions: 0.443 nm
Maximum distance for 5 constraints, at 120 deg. angles, all-trans: 0.764 nm
Estimated maximum distance required for P-LINCS: 0.764 nm
This distance will limit the DD cell size, you can override this with -rcon
Scaling the initial minimum size with 1/0.8 (option -dds) = 1.25
Using 0 separate PME ranks, as there are too few total
ranks for efficient splitting
Optimizing the DD grid for 6 cells with a minimum initial size of 0.956 nm
The maximum allowed number of cells is: X 20 Y 20 Z 20
Domain decomposition grid 6 x 1 x 1, separate PME ranks 0
PME domain decomposition: 6 x 1 x 1
Domain decomposition rank 0, coordinates 0 0 0
The initial number of communication pulses is: X 1
The initial domain decomposition cell size is: X 3.33 nm
The maximum allowed distance for atoms involved in interactions is:
non-bonded interactions 1.000 nm
(the following are initial values, they could change due to box deformation)
two-body bonded interactions (-rdd) 1.000 nm
multi-body bonded interactions (-rdd) 1.000 nm
virtual site constructions (-rcon) 3.333 nm
atoms separated by up to 5 constraints (-rcon) 3.333 nm
When dynamic load balancing gets turned on, these settings will change to:
The maximum number of communication pulses is: X 1
The minimum size for domain decomposition cells is 1.000 nm
The requested allowed shrink of DD cells (option -dds) is: 0.80
The allowed shrink of domain decomposition cells is: X 0.30
The maximum allowed distance for atoms involved in interactions is:
non-bonded interactions 1.000 nm
two-body bonded interactions (-rdd) 1.000 nm
multi-body bonded interactions (-rdd) 1.000 nm
virtual site constructions (-rcon) 1.000 nm
atoms separated by up to 5 constraints (-rcon) 1.000 nm
Using 6 MPI threads
Non-default thread affinity set, disabling internal thread affinity
Using 6 OpenMP threads per tMPI thread
System total charge: -0.000
Will do PME sum in reciprocal space for electrostatic interactions.
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A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
J. Chem. Phys. 103 (1995) pp. 8577-8592
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Using a Gaussian width (1/beta) of 0.320163 nm for Ewald
Potential shift: LJ r^-12: -1.000e+00 r^-6: -1.000e+00, Ewald -1.000e-05
Initialized non-bonded Coulomb Ewald tables, spacing: 9.33e-04 size: 1073
Generated table with 1000 data points for 1-4 COUL.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1000 data points for 1-4 LJ6.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1000 data points for 1-4 LJ12.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Using SIMD 4x8 nonbonded short-range kernels
Using a 4x8 pair-list setup:
updated every 100 steps, buffer 0.000 nm, rlist 1.000 nm
At tolerance 0.005 kJ/mol/ps per atom, equivalent classical 1x1 list would be:
updated every 100 steps, buffer 0.000 nm, rlist 1.000 nm
Using Lorentz-Berthelot Lennard-Jones combination rule
Long Range LJ corr.: <C6> 5.0152e-04
Removing pbc first time
Initializing Parallel LINear Constraint Solver
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P-LINCS: A Parallel Linear Constraint Solver for molecular simulation
J. Chem. Theory Comput. 4 (2008) pp. 116-122
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The number of constraints is 6385
There are constraints between atoms in different decomposition domains,
will communicate selected coordinates each lincs iteration
Linking all bonded interactions to atoms
There are 18465 inter update-group virtual sites,
will an extra communication step for selected coordinates and forces
Intra-simulation communication will occur every 10 steps.
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G. Bussi, D. Donadio and M. Parrinello
Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling
J. Chem. Phys. 126 (2007) pp. 014101
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There are: 12539 Atoms
There are: 18465 VSites
Atom distribution over 6 domains: av 5167 stddev 199 min 4989 max 5507
Constraining the starting coordinates (step 0)
Constraining the coordinates at t0-dt (step 0)
Center of mass motion removal mode is Linear
We have the following groups for center of mass motion removal:
0: rest
RMS relative constraint deviation after constraining: 2.31e-05
Initial temperature: 300.037 K
Started mdrun on rank 0 Fri Oct 2 15:05:27 2020
Step Time
0 0.00000
Energies (kJ/mol)
Angle Ryckaert-Bell. Improper Dih. LJ-14 Coulomb-14
4.45652e+02 -4.13382e+02 2.39002e+00 5.76587e+02 3.22453e+02
LJ (SR) Disper. corr. Coulomb (SR) Coul. recip. Position Rest.
You can also download the .err and .log files here. The job would just get killed after the time allocated if I do not terminate.
