Re: [AMBER] System blows up after several nanoseconds using Amber 12

From: Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:13:14 -0500

On Nov 10, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Sasha Perkins <slperks49.gmail.com> wrote:

> Jason,
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply. I agree with you that the cut off is very
> large. The only reason I'm using that cut off is because in the literature,
> that is the typical cut off for my type of system and so I tried that
> first.
>
> The latest bugfix for Amber12 we have is 26.

Amber 12 does not have that many bug fixes. What is the output of

./patch_amber.py --patch-level

?
>
> I am using the Penn State Lion-GA cluster with only one GPU for now
> using pmemd.cuda_SPFP.MPI. The Lion-GA cluster GPUs I believe are Nvidia
> Tesla M2090. Should I be using a different command if I'm only running in
> one GPU? Or simply use more GPUs?

Use pmemd.cuda_SPFP for only a single GPU.

As Adrian said, though, try the CPU version of Amber12 first to isolate the problem to GPUs.

Good luck,
Jason

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Jason M. Swails
Quantum Theory Project,
University of Florida
Ph.D. Candidate
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