Hi,
Parallel installations can be difficult to complete, especially on your own
machine when you try to "fix" it and/or try out other mpi's. TIP5P is an
explicit solvent model that uses "extra points" on water, i.e. point charges
on all three atom centers and two additional charges to help model some of
water's behavior a little bit better. The most common model is TIP3P
generally, and TIP4P is less common, though still used. TIP5P is, in my
experience, used only for specific applications regarding some more complex
behavior of water. One thing I'd remind you to do is to download and apply
all bugfixes from the amber website, as some of your issues may be handled
in those.
I'm going to assume this is your own machine since it's running Ubuntu which
is far more common on a desktop platform than an HPC one. As user-friendly
as the distro is, it has its caveats. You will want to install the
following applications through aptitude (sudo apt-get install): csh, flex,
bison/byacc (and obviously gfortran if you don't have it already).
Furthermore, /bin/sh in Ubuntu systems points to /bin/dash rather than
/bin/bash like most other distros, so you'll want to redirect that link
(sudo rm /bin/sh; sudo ln /bin/bash /bin/sh).
Regarding MPI and parallelization: you should use one. Pick one and stick
with it. The last thing you want to do is wind up with a hodgepodge of
different MPIs lying around your system in which its pieces are
incompatible. If you're installing the MPIs either through aptitude or
building it from source using ./configure; make; sudo make install, it's
going to put it in your global path (unless you tell it not to), so each MPI
installation is going to overwrite the last (though maybe not
completely...) If you stick with one, you will not run into this problem.
I personally use MPICH2 on my machine (Ubuntu, 4-core) and it has worked
with all ambers/ambertools, though I've also gotten it to work with other
MPIs (OpenMPI, mvapich) just as easily.
Furthermore, make sure that you don't have /usr/bin mpi executables (and
/usr/lib and /usr/include libraries and header files) in addition to files
in /usr/local/(bin, lib, include) that you're really trying to use. If
you're still having problems installing amber10 in parallel, try again (be
sure to "make clean" before you try a new installation though, as you need
to start from scratch when applying different options). You can search the
mail reflector (or google) for your error messages to see if they've been
discussed before (they likely have). If they haven't you can post a new
message with your error and you should get a response.
(Also, when you're running the parallel tests, don't forget to set the
DO_PARALLEL environment variable: export DO_PARALLEL="mpirun -np 4 ", or
however many processors you want to devote to the test cases).
Good luck!
Jason
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:31 AM, peker milas <pekermilas.gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> you have no idea how i m grateful for this quick reply, so thank you
> again. What i understand from your email, this is an important
> problem because i would like to use this program with all of its
> features. Now, it looks like being more explicit about the situation
> is needed. First of all this machine has 2 intel nehalem cpu s (8
> physical cores and 16 logical cores) on it, with 8Gb ram. It also has
> ubuntu 9.10 (kermic i believe) as its operating system. Its compiler
> set is gcc 4.4.1. I installed AmberTools1.2 using gcc. There was some
> bugs in configuration script and in fortran.cpp file which i fixed.
> And then, probably more than 10 times i tried to install Amber10
> parallel. While i was installing i believe i used all relevant
> paralellizations (mpich,openmpi, even lam which was the default
> parallelization method, so that comes with amber ). Every single trial
> failed when i run tests. What i meant is the program started doing
> either the first or the second test but it could never finish. This
> was frustrating enough and i decided to install it first serially.
> When i did that i got those errors. What i m trying to say here i
> really lost in this installation process and i will definitely need
> help for both types of installation. Again if somebody wants to help
> it will be appreciated deeply...
>
> thank you so much...
> peker
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > All but one of these differences seem benign. The tip5p test, however,
> is
> > slightly disconcerting since it doesn't appear that any output was
> created
> > by the test run comparable to that blip that's printed in
> > TEST_FAILURES.dif. If you plan on using that solvent model, I'd check
> out
> > that test case a little more carefully.
> >
> > Good luck!
> > Jason
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:37 PM, peker milas <pekermilas.gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Amber users,
> >>
> >> I recently installed AmberTools 1.2 and Amber 10 to a pc. Just for now
> >> it is serial but i m planning to make it parallel in a very near
> >> future. At the same time i had some test failures. I will attach my
> >> test failures file to this email. My question is about those failures.
> >> If anybody can explain me whether they are crucial or not also whether
> >> i should fix them i will be very happy.
> >>
> >> Thank you so much
> >> peker
> >>
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