Re: Colvar cannot be ran on supercomputer newton

From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2013 - 09:08:25 CDT

An old version of NAMD (2.6) is installed on the cluster, so you (or your
sys-admins) have to install a newer version.

On 6 August 2013 15:35, Tian Li <litian543_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear NAMD users,
>
> I want to use SMD to explore the pathway of a channel, using colvar to
> restrain the atom in the xy plane, I ran my configuration file on my
> computer using NAMD 2.8 multicore 32, it seems working fine. However, when
> I use supercomputer newton, the error shows up. The NAMD in the
> supercomputer is 2.6-mpi, the .log file shows as following:
>
> Charm++> Running on MPI version: 2.1 multi-thread support:
> MPI_THREAD_SINGLE (max supported: MPI_THREAD_SINGLE)
> Charm warning> Randomization of stack pointer is turned on in Kernel, run
> 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space' as root to disable it.
> Thread migration may not work!
> Charm++> cpu topology info is being gathered.
> Charm++> 2 unique compute nodes detected.
> Info: NAMD 2.6 for Linux-amd64-MPI
> Info:
> Info: Please visit http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/
> Info: and send feedback or bug reports to namd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Info:
> Info: Please cite Phillips et al., J. Comp. Chem. 26:1781-1802 (2005)
> Info: in all publications reporting results obtained with NAMD.
> Info:
> Info: Based on Charm++/Converse 60102 for mpi-linux-x86_64
> Info: Built Mon Jul 19 16:55:57 EDT 2010 by gragghia on admin.local
> Info: 1 NAMD 2.6 Linux-amd64-MPI 36 chi14 tli10
> Info: Running on 36 processors.
> Info: 3320 kB of memory in use.
> Info: Memory usage based on sbrk
> Info: Configuration file is 71smd01.conf
> TCL: Suspending until startup complete.
> ERROR: The following variables were set in the
> ERROR: configuration file but are NOT VALID
> ERROR: colvarsConfig
> ERROR: colvars
> FATAL ERROR: ERROR(S) IN THE CONFIGURATION FILE
> [0] Stack Traceback:
> [0] _Z8NAMD_diePKc+0x65 [0x4a6c85]
> [1] _ZN13SimParameters22initialize_config_dataEP10ConfigListRPc+0x75
> [0x71fbcd]
> [2] _ZN9NamdState14configListInitEP10ConfigList+0x342 [0x6a2e28]
> [3] _ZN9ScriptTcl7Tcl_runEPvP10Tcl_InterpiPPc+0x1bf [0x6fda1b]
> [4] TclInvokeStringCommand+0x69 [0x2abac496f589]
> [5] TclEvalObjvInternal+0x2f3 [0x2abac4970c73]
> [6] Tcl_EvalEx+0x38b [0x2abac497116b]
> [7] Tcl_FSEvalFile+0x217 [0x2abac49b4167]
> [8] Tcl_EvalFile+0x2f [0x2abac49b424f]
> [9] _ZN9ScriptTcl3runEPc+0x13 [0x6fa049]
> [10] main+0x240 [0x4aa2b8]
> [11] __libc_start_main+0xf4 [0x2abac67a2994]
> [12] _ZNSt8ios_base4InitD1Ev+0x39 [0x4a62c9]
>
> p.s. I also tried the new installed 2.9, the NAMD doesn't even run.
>
> If anyone had such experience before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tian
>
>

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