Re: [AMBER] Slow performance of Amber12 on cluster

From: bharat gupta <bharat.85.monu.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 14:03:14 +0900

Hello Amber Users,

I have already asked this question previously , but nobody has responded.
So, I am posting the question again. I am running my simulations on a
cluster with six 16 processors nodes and I am running a total of 96
processes with -npernode 16. My system contains 76441 atoms including
protein+ligand+water. For completing 5 ns simulation, it took around more
than 1 day.

Sample command which I use for running:

$]mpirun -np 96 -machinefile machinefile sander.MPI ...

This is the information for one of the nodes:

===== Processor composition =====
Processor name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2650 v2
Packages(sockets) : 2
Cores : 16
Processors(CPUs) : 16
Cores per package : 8
Threads per core : 1

Memory info:
[sandia.node06 ~]$ free -m
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 64454 2777 61676 95 154 265



Here's the output from the run file:

| Final Performance Info:
| -----------------------------------------------------
| Average timings for all steps:
| Elapsed(s) = 118385.53 Per Step(ms) = 47.35
| ns/day = 3.65 seconds/ns = 23677.11
| -----------------------------------------------------

| Job began at 10:31:31.193 on 06/27/2016
| Setup done at 10:31:32.150 on 06/27/2016
| Run done at 19:24:37.680 on 06/28/2016
| wallclock() was called******** times


I feel that the simulation is running at a very slow speed. What could be
the reason for this or is this normal or my settings for the parallel run
might be wrong??

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

*Best Regards*
BM
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