On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Smith, Louis <
Louis_Smith.urmc.rochester.edu> wrote:
> Hello people of Amber,
>
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows whether it's possible to get the MC
> barostat to print less. I've found that it records every attempt in the
> outfile, rather than summarizing the attempts every ntpr steps, which is
> less than ideal* when running relatively long trajectories using pmemd.cuda
> where less frequent updating was specified.
>
>
> Is there any way to reduce the volume of these messages in line with what
> ntpr specifies?
>
>
> Does writing them from a GPU run as frequently as once every 100 steps
> (the default value for mcbarint) negatively effect performance?
>
The GPU doesn't do this calculation, the CPU does (it's a simple set of
multiplications). The effect on performance will be (less than)
negligible. In fact, the GPU code already downloads all forces (and
uploads them for failed volume change attempts), which will be MUCH slower
than writing a line of text in the output file.
FWIW, newer versions of pmemd.cuda don't print this information anymore
(what version are you using?).
HTH,
Jason
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Jason M. Swails
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