Re: problems running GPU-accelerated namd

From: Victor Kwan (vkwan8_at_uwo.ca)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2018 - 09:14:02 CST

Hello,

What is the output of 'nvidia-smi' ?

Best,

Victor
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 3:03 AM 李耀 <liyao17_at_mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> Dear NAMD users,
>
> I'm running namd2 on GPU server with NAMD_Git-2017-12-25_Linux-x86_64-multicore-CUDA and this is the command:
> ./namd2 +devices 5 ~/4ntw/string_eq_5ns/f1t10/win_f1/win5_f1.conf > ~/4ntw/string_eq_5ns/f1t10/win_f1/win5_f1.log
>
> It came out the following error:
> Charm++ fatal error:
> FATAL ERROR: Pe 0 unable to bind to CUDA device 5 on omnisky because only 1 devices are present
>
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> Then I declare 8 CPUs:
> ./namd2 +p 8 +devices 5 ~/4ntw/string_eq_5ns/f1t10/win_f1/win5_f1.conf > ~/4ntw/string_eq_5ns/f1t10/win_f1/win5_f1.log
>
> The coming message is:
> Charm++ fatal error:
> FATAL ERROR: Pe 4 unable to bind to CUDA device 5 on omnisky because only 1 devices are present
>
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> I have a few questions:
> 1) Do I need to declare the number of CPU to use(+p num) in this version of NAMD?
> 2) How to make all the calculation(configuration and energy calculation) run with GPU but not with GPU and CPU?
> 3) How to explain those errors? There seems no problem about the GPU devices.
>
> Thank you for reading my mail.
>
> Best,
> Yao Li
>

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