Thank you for the initial help with this! In the meantime, I confirmed that
the problem also occurs with the non-MPI version of pmemd (from Amber 16).
My initial assumption was wrong. The problem isn't long idle times, but
rather that pmemd consistently runs at approximately 6% CPU utilization
even though it has the whole CPU to itself.
The storage file system is NFS with locking turned off, and access to that
file system is generally fast; Amber is the only application that exhibits
this behavior, and only since we rebuilt the cluster using RedHat 8.
Have you seen this before, and/or any idea what may cause it?
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On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:34 AM David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2021, Kevin Keane wrote:
> >
> >Meanwhile, is there a way to profile pmemd.MPI to see where it actually
> may
> >be stalled?
>
> There are detailed parallel timings at the bottom of the mdout file, and in
> a log file (default name is "logfile", but you can change that with the
> "-l"
> command-line flag.)
>
> I'm not sure if these will provide much insight or not. Probably, you
> would
> need to compare the timings on a machine where the problem shows up and one
> where it doesn't.
>
> ....good luck....dac
>
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