MOLECULAR DYNAMICS PERFORMANCE GUIDE - Digital Research Alliance of CANADA

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  • Dataset: 6n4o
  • Software: NAMD2.cuda (namd-multicore/2.14-iccifortcuda-2020.1.114-avx2)
  • Resource: 1 tasks, 12 cores, nodes, 1 GPUs, with NVLink
  • CPU: EPYC 7413 (Milan), 2.65 GHz
  • GPU: NVIDIA-A100-SXM4-40GB, 12 cores/GPU
  • Simulation speed: 8.66913 ns/day
  • Efficiency: 100.0 %
  • Site: Narval
  • Date: Jan. 29, 2022, 2:28 a.m.
  • Submission script:

    #!/bin/bash
    #SBATCH -c8 --gpus=1
    #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2000 --time=1:0:0
    # Usage: sbatch $0 number_of_steps
    INPFILE=namd.in

    STEPS=$1
    TMPFILE=tf_${SLURM_JOBID}
    RUN_IN=run_${SLURM_JOBID}.in
    cp ${INPFILE} ${RUN_IN}
    echo numsteps $1 >> run_${SLURM_JOBID}.in
    module load StdEnv/2020 intel/2020.1.217 cuda/11.0 namd-multicore/2.14

    echo ${SLURM_NODELIST} running on ${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK} cores
    cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | uniq

    namd2 +p${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK} +idlepoll ${RUN_IN} > ${TMPFILE}

  • Notes:

  • Simulation input file:

    # Amber/(t,s,x)leap generated parm and crd file
    parmfile prmtop.parm7
    ambercoor inpcrd.rst7
    # Input
    bincoordinates equilibration.coor
    binvelocities equilibration.vel
    extendedsystem equilibration.xsc
    # Output
    restartfreq 10000
    dcdfreq 10000
    outputEnergies 10000
    outputPressure 10000
    outputname equilibration
    # Number of steps
    # numsteps 10000
    # AMBER Force Field settings
    amber on
    rigidBonds all
    useSettle on
    rigidTolerance 1.0e-8
    cutoff 9.0
    pairlistdist 11.0
    switching off
    exclude scaled1-4
    readexclusions yes
    1-4scaling 0.83333333
    scnb 2.0
    zeromomentum on
    ljcorrection on
    # Integrator Parameters
    timestep 1.0
    nonbondedFreq 1
    fullElectFrequency 1
    stepspercycle 10
    wrapAll on
    # Temperature control
    langevin on
    langevinTemp 300
    langevinDamping 1.0
    # Pressure control
    useGroupPressure yes
    LangevinPiston on
    LangevinPistonTarget 1.0
    LangevinPistonPeriod 200
    LangevinPistonDecay 100
    LangevinPistonTemp 300
    # PME settings
    PME on
    PMEGridSizeX 144
    PMEGridSizeY 144
    PMEGridSizeZ 144