Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-07 Thread Luca Bellucci
Ok. I agree with you, FEP performance is an important issue to resolve but I know that there are also other priorities. However, I would thank you for your interest and and your suggestions. Luca > I would suggest that you take Chris' advice and post all of this as a > feature request on redmi

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-07 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
I would suggest that you take Chris' advice and post all of this as a feature request on redmine.gromacs.org so that it can be put on a to-do list. Enhancing the performance of the free energy code is probably going to be a low-priority, long-term goal (in the absence of any proven bug), but

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-06 Thread Luca Bellucci
I posted my test files in: https://www.dropbox.com/link/17.-sUcJyMeEL?k=0f3b6fa098389405e7e15c886dcc83c1 This is a run for a dialanine peptide in a water box. The cell side cubic box was 40 A. The directory is organized as : TEST\ topol.top Run-00/confout.gro; Equilibrated stru

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
David Mobley wrote: Hi, This doesn't sound like normal behavior. In fact, this is not what I typically observe. While there may be a small performance difference, it is probably at the level of a few percent. Certainly not a factor of more than 10. I see about a 50% reduction in speed when

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-06 Thread David Mobley
Hi, This doesn't sound like normal behavior. In fact, this is not what I typically observe. While there may be a small performance difference, it is probably at the level of a few percent. Certainly not a factor of more than 10. You may want to provide an mdp file and topology, etc. so someone ca

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-06 Thread Luca Bellucci
I followed your suggestions and i tried to perform a MD run wit GROMACS and NAMD for dialanine peptide in a water box. The cell side cubic box was 40 A. GROMACS: With the free energy module there is a drop in gromacs performance of about 10/20 fold. Standard MD: Time: 6.693 6

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-04 Thread Luca Bellucci
Yes i am testing the possibility to perform an Hamiltonian-REMD Energy barriers can be overcome increasing the temperature system or scaling potential energy with a lambda value, these methods are "equivalent". Both have advantages and disavantages, at this stage it is not the right place to de

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-04 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Chris Neale wrote: >> Dear Chris and Justin / Thank you for your precious suggestions />>/ This is a test that i perform in a single machine with 8 cores />>/ and gromacs 4.5.4. />>/ />>/ I am trying to enhance the sampling of a protein using the decoupling scheme />>/ of the free ener

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-04 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Luca Bellucci wrote: Dear Chris and Justin Thank you for your precious suggestions This is a test that i perform in a single machine with 8 cores and gromacs 4.5.4. I am trying to enhance the sampling of a protein using the decoupling scheme of the free energy module of gromacs. However

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-04 Thread Luca Bellucci
Dear Chris and Justin Thank you for your precious suggestions This is a test that i perform in a single machine with 8 cores and gromacs 4.5.4. I am trying to enhance the sampling of a protein using the decoupling scheme of the free energy module of gromacs. However when i decouple only the

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-04 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Luca Bellucci wrote: Hi Chris, thank for the suggestions, in the previous mail there is a mistake because couple-moltype = SOL (for solvent) and not "Protein_chaim_P". Now the problem of the load balance seems reasonable, because the water box is large ~9.0 nm. Now your outcome makes a lo

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-04 Thread Luca Bellucci
Hi Chris, thank for the suggestions, in the previous mail there is a mistake because couple-moltype = SOL (for solvent) and not "Protein_chaim_P". Now the problem of the load balance seems reasonable, because the water box is large ~9.0 nm. However the problem exist and the performance loss is v