running namd in parallel

From: Revthi Sanker (revthi.sanker1990_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2013 - 23:39:02 CDT

Dear all,
I wish to run namd in parallel. I am using an ibverbs version. It is unable
to scale up. Kindly suggest me what has to be done to parallelize namd. The
script that I am currently using is this:

#!/bin/bash
#@ output = test.out
#@ error = test.err
#@ job_type = MPICH
#@ class = Medium128
#@ node = 8
#@tasks_per_node = 16
#@ environment = COPY_ALL
#@ queue
Jobid=`echo $LOADL_STEP_ID | cut -f 6 -d .`
tmpdir=$HOME/scratch/job$Jobid
mkdir -p $tmpdir; cd $tmpdir
cat $LOADL_HOSTFILE >xx
cp -R $LOADL_STEP_INITDIR/* $tmpdir
cat $LOADL_HOSTFILE | uniq >xx
/sware/namd/NAMD_2.9_Linux-x86_64-ibverbs/charmrun mpiexec.hydra -np 128 -f
$LOADL_HOSTFILE +ppn 16 /sware/namd/NAMD_2.9_Linux-x86_64-ibverbs/namd2
equ_cyca.namd > equi.log
mv ../job$Jobid $LOADL_STEP_INITDIR

Initially it does run in all 8 nodes and 16 processors but later on some
nodes have only 2 or 3 processors working (at the maximum) while most
others show no job running. I am totally new to namd. Kindly consider this
request and help me out in this regard.

Thank you so much for your help in advance.

Revathi.S
M.S. Research Scholar
Indian Institute Of Technology, Madras
India
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