From: Norman Geist (norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2017 - 03:47:53 CDT
I exclude a hardware problem since especially this initialization problem it
happens on all of 6 GPU nodes and on another cluster we have access to,
containing 10 GPU nodes. I should also mention that we have a 4fs timestep
using the hydrogen mass repartitioning method trough the parmed utily
modifying the amber parm7 file. But this is no explanation for the
initialization error, maybe for the stability issues, but still it working
fine with 2.10 and 2.11.
Thanks so far
;)
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im
> Auftrag von Nicholas M Glykos
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. August 2017 10:05
> An: Norman Geist <norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de>
> Cc: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu; glykos_at_mbg.duth.gr
> Betreff: Re: AW: namd-l: NAMD-2.12 CUDA2 and PMECUDA problems
>
>
>
> > Yes, it is the nightly build. It's weird that I get such a backtrace
> > during the CUDA initialization already and nobody seems to have
> > encountered the same. I also get similar errors for GBIS with 2.11,
> > where CUDA acceleration has been changed for implicit solvent.
> >
> > If I disable useCUDA2 some of the systems run for a while, but most of
> > them crash later with e.g. segfault or by instability. Sometimes also
> > lot's of margin warnings occur inbetween. There's must still be a bug
> > somewhere in the new CUDA kernels.
>
> Yes, it is weird. Being a pessimist, I usually connect weirdness with
> hardware issues but you could be right that this is indeed a software
> problem. For the record I have used the new cuda kernels on machines with
> Xeon E5-2660v3 plus 2 x K40 without stability problems. Ditto for
> workstations with i7-6800 + GT1070. Good luck with it, I'm out of my depth
> here.
>
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> and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus,
> Dragana, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece, Tel/Fax (office) +302551030620,
> Ext.77620, Tel (lab) +302551030615, http://utopia.duth.gr/glykos/
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