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Athena (explicit, uniform grid MHD code)

Athena scaling on GPC with OpenMPI and MVAPICH2 on GigE, and OpenMPI on InfiniBand

Athena is a straightforward C code which doesn't use a lot of libraries so it is pretty straightforward to build and compile on new machines.

It encapsulates its compiler flags, etc in an Makeoptions.in file which is then processed by configure. I've used the following additions to Makeoptions.in on TCS and GPC:

<source lang="sh"> ifeq ($(MACHINE),scinettcs)

 CC = mpcc_r
 LDR = mpcc_r
 OPT = -O5 -q64 -qarch=pwr6 -qtune=pwr6 -qcache=auto -qlargepage -qstrict
 MPIINC =
 MPILIB =
 CFLAGS = $(OPT)
 LIB = -ldl -lm

else ifeq ($(MACHINE),scinetgpc)

 CC = mpicc
 LDR = mpicc
 OPT = -O3
 MPIINC =
 MPILIB =
 CFLAGS = $(OPT)
 LIB = -lm

else ... endif endif </source> It performs quite well on the GPC, scaling extremely well even on a strong scaling test out to about 256 cores (32 nodes) on Gigabit ethernet, and performing beautifully on InfiniBand out to 512 cores (64 nodes).

-- ljdursi 19:20, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

FLASH3 (Adaptive Mesh reactive hydrodynamics; explict hydro/MHD)

Weak scaling test of the 2d sod problem on both the GPC and TCS. The results are actually somewhat faster on the GPC; in both cases (weak) scaling is very good out at least to 256 cores

FLASH encapsulates its machine-dependant information in the FLASH3/sites directory. For the GPC, you'll have to

module load intel
module load openmpi
module load hdf5/183-v16-openmpi

and with that, the following file (sites/scinetgpc/Makefile.h) works for me: <source lang="sh">

1. 1. Must do module load hdf5/183-v16-openmpi

HDF5_PATH = ${SCINET_HDF5_BASE} ZLIB_PATH = /usr/local

1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Compiler and linker commands
4. We use the f90 compiler as the linker, so some C libraries may explicitly
5. need to be added into the link line.
6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

1. 1. modules will put the right mpi in our path

FCOMP = mpif77 CCOMP = mpicc CPPCOMP = mpiCC LINK = mpif77

1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Compilation flags
4. Three sets of compilation/linking flags are defined: one for optimized
5. code, one for testing, and one for debugging. The default is to use the
6. _OPT version. Specifying -debug to setup will pick the _DEBUG version,
7. these should enable bounds checking. Specifying -test is used for
8. flash_test, and is set for quick code generation, and (sometimes)
9. profiling. The Makefile generated by setup will assign the generic token
10. (ex. FFLAGS) to the proper set of flags (ex. FFLAGS_OPT).
11. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

FFLAGS_OPT = -c -r8 -i4 -O3 -xSSE4.2 FFLAGS_DEBUG = -c -g -r8 -i4 -O0 FFLAGS_TEST = -c -r8 -i4

1. if we are using HDF5, we need to specify the path to the include files

CFLAGS_HDF5 = -I${HDF5_PATH}/include

CFLAGS_OPT = -c -O3 -xSSE4.2 CFLAGS_TEST = -c -O2 CFLAGS_DEBUG = -c -g

MDEFS =

.SUFFIXES: .o .c .f .F .h .fh .F90 .f90

1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Linker flags
4. There is a seperate version of the linker flags for each of the _OPT,
5. _DEBUG, and _TEST cases.
6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

LFLAGS_OPT = -o LFLAGS_TEST = -o LFLAGS_DEBUG = -g -o

MACHOBJ =

MV = mv -f AR = ar -r RM = rm -f CD = cd RL = ranlib ECHO = echo </source>

-- ljdursi 22:11, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Structural Biology

Molecular simulation of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and other biologically relevant molecules.

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation

GROMACS

Download and general information: http://www.gromacs.org

Search the mailing list archives: http://oldwww.gromacs.org/swish-e/search/search2.php

Peculiarities of running single node GROMACS jobs on SCINET

This is VERY IMPORTANT !!! Please read the [relevant user tips section] for information that is essential for your single node (up to 8 core) MPI GROMACS jobs.

-- cneale 14 September 2009

Compiling and Running GROMACS on Scinet (general information)

Chris Neale has compiled gromacs on GPC, with assistance from Scott Northrup, and on the power6 cluster with assistance from Ching-Hsing Yu. Users are welcome to utilize these binary executables, but only at their own peril since compiling and testing your own executable is safer and more stable.

Gromacs executables:

GPC: /scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5/exec/bin

TCS: /scratch/cneale/exe/gromacs-4.0.4_aix/exec/bin

Below you will find, in order, scripts for the different compilations that you can follow to make your own binaries.

NOTE: the steps are not listed in order! You must compile fftw before compiling gromacs, and if you are going to use mvapich2-1.4rc1 then you must compile it also before compiling parallel gromacs.

1. Compiling serial single precision gromacs on GPC
2. Compiling openmpi parallel gromacs on GPC
3. Compiling serial gromacs on the power6 (submitted to the queue):
4. Compiling parallel gromacs on the power6 (submitted to the queue):
5. fftw single precision compilation
6. Change to get mvapich2-1.4rc1 to compile gromacs
7. Compiling mvapich2-1.4rc1
8. Compiling gromacs on GPC using mvapich2-1.4rc1
9. Submitting an IB GPC job using openmpi
10. Submitting an IB GPC job using mvapich2-1.4rc1

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Compiling serial single precision gromacs on GPC

<source lang="sh"> cd /scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5 mkdir exec module purge module load intel export FFTW_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/intel/fftw-3.1.2/exec export GROMACS_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5/exec export CPPFLAGS=-I$FFTW_LOCATION/include export LDFLAGS=-L$FFTW_LOCATION/lib ./configure --prefix=$GROMACS_LOCATION --without-motif-includes --without-motif-libraries --without-x --without-xml >output.configure 2>&1 make >output.make 2>&1 make install >output.make_install 2>&1 make distclean </source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Compiling openmpi parallel gromacs on GPC:

<source lang="sh"> cd /scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5 mkdir exec module purge module load openmpi intel export FFTW_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/intel/fftw-3.1.2/exec export GROMACS_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5/exec export CPPFLAGS="-I$FFTW_LOCATION/include -I/scinet/gpc/mpi/openmpi/1.3.2-intel-v11.0-ofed/include -I/scinet/gpc/mpi/openmpi/1.3.2-intel-v11.0-ofed/lib" export LDFLAGS=-L$FFTW_LOCATION/lib /gpc/mpi/openmpi/1.3.2-intel-v11.0-ofed/lib/openmpi -I/scinet/gpc/x1/intel/Compiler/11.0/081/lib/intel64 -I/scinet/gpc/x1/intel/Compiler/11.0/081/mkl/lib/em64t/" ./configure --prefix=$GROMACS_LOCATION --without-motif-includes --without-motif-libraries --without-x --without-xml --enable-mpi --program-suffix="_openmpi" >output.configure.mpi 2>&1 make >output.make.mpi 2>&1 make install-mdrun >output.make_install.mpi 2>&1 make distclean </source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Compiling serial gromacs on the power6 (submitted to the queue)

Note that the -O5 flag for the power6 compilation makes it take about 20 hours to compile. You can drop that if you want, but it does give you a few more percent performance.

<source lang="sh">

1. ======================================================================
2. Specifies the name of the shell to use for the job
3. @ shell = /usr/bin/ksh
4. @ job_type = serial
5. @ class = verylong
   1. # @ node = 1
   2. # @ tasks_per_node = 1
6. @ output = $(jobid).out
7. @ error = $(jobid).err
8. @ wall_clock_limit = 40:00:00
9. =====================================
   1. this is necessary in order to avoid core dumps for batch files
   2. which can cause the system to be overloaded
10. ulimits
11. @ core_limit = 0
12. =====================================
    1. necessary to force use of infiniband network for MPI traffic
       1. TURN IT OFF # @ network.MPI = csss,not_shared,US,HIGH
13. =====================================
14. @ environment=COPY_ALL
15. @ queue

export PATH=/usr/lpp/ppe.hpct/bin:/usr/vacpp/bin:.:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/java14/jre/bin:/usr/java14/bin:/usr/lpp/LoadL/full/bin:/usr/local/bin export F77=xlf_r export CC=xlc_r export CXX=xlc++_r export FFLAGS="-O5 -qarch=pwr6 -qtune=pwr6" export CFLAGS="-O5 -qarch=pwr6 -qtune=pwr6" export CXXFLAGS="-O5 -qarch=pwr6 -qtune=pwr6" export FFTW_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/fftw-3.1.2_aix/exec export GROMACS_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/gromacs-4.0.4_aix/exec export CPPFLAGS=-I$FFTW_LOCATION/include export LDFLAGS=-L$FFTW_LOCATION/lib cd /scratch/cneale/exe/gromacs-4.0.4_aix mkdir exec ./configure --prefix=$GROMACS_LOCATION --without-motif-includes --without-motif-libraries --without-x --without-xml >output.configure 2>&1 make >output.make 2>&1 make install >output.make_install 2>&1 make distclean </source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Compiling parallel gromacs on the power6 (submitted to the queue)

<source lang="sh">

1. ===============================================================================
2. Specifies the name of the shell to use for the job
3. @ shell = /usr/bin/ksh
   1. 1. 1. 1. @ job_type = serial
4. @ job_type = parallel
5. @ class = verylong
6. @ node = 1
7. @ tasks_per_node = 1
8. @ output = $(jobid).out
9. @ error = $(jobid).err
10. @ wall_clock_limit = 40:00:00
11. =====================================
    1. this is necessary in order to avoid core dumps for batch files
    2. which can cause the system to be overloaded
12. ulimits
13. @ core_limit = 0
14. =====================================
    1. necessary to force use of infiniband network for MPI traffic
       1. TURN IT OFF # @ network.MPI = csss,not_shared,US,HIGH
15. =====================================
16. @ environment=COPY_ALL
17. @ queue

export F77=xlf_r export CC=xlc_r export CXX=xlc++_r export FFLAGS="-O5 -qarch=pwr6 -qtune=pwr6" export CFLAGS="-O5 -qarch=pwr6 -qtune=pwr6" export CXXFLAGS="-O5 -qarch=pwr6 -qtune=pwr6" export FFTW_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/fftw-3.1.2_aix/exec export GROMACS_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/gromacs-4.0.4_aix/exec export CPPFLAGS=-I$FFTW_LOCATION/include export LDFLAGS=-L$FFTW_LOCATION/lib cd /scratch/cneale/exe/gromacs-4.0.4_aix echo "cn-r0-10" > ~/.rhosts echo localhost > ~/host.list for((i=2;i<=16;i++)); do

 echo localhost >> ~/host.list

done export MP_HOSTFILE=~/host.list ./configure --prefix=$GROMACS_LOCATION --without-motif-includes --without-motif-libraries --without-x --without-xml --enable-mpi --disable-nice --program-suffix="_mpi" CC=mpcc_r F77=mpxlf_r > output.configure_mpi 2>&1 make mdrun > output.make_mpi 2>&1 make install-mdrun > output.make_install_mpi 2>&1 make distclean </source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

fftw single precision compilation

FFTW is required by GROMACS. This compilation must be completed before compiling GROMACS.

<source lang="sh"> mkdir exec export FFTW_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/intel/fftw-3.1.2/exec module purge module load openmpi intel ./configure --enable-float --enable-threads --prefix=${FFTW_LOCATION} make make install make distclean </source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Change to get mvapich2-1.4rc1 to compile gromacs

This change is required to the mvapich2-1.4rc1 source code in order to compile GROMACS with it.

<source lang="sh"> src/mpid/ch3/channels/mrail/src/gen2/ibv_channel_manager.c line 503 unsigned long debug = 0; to static unsigned long debug = 0; </source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Compiling mvapich2-1.4rc1

<source lang="sh"> cd /scratch/cneale/exe/mvapich2-1.4rc1 mkdir exec module purge module load intel ./configure --prefix=/scratch/cneale/exe/mvapich2-1.4rc1/exec CC=icc CXX=icpc F90=ifort F77=ifort >output.configure 2>&1 make >output.make 2>&1 make install >output.make_install 2>&1 make distclean </source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Compiling gromacs on GPC using mvapich2-1.4rc1

<source lang="sh">

1. !/bin/bash

cd /scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5 mkdir exec PATH=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/xcat/bin:/opt/xcat/sbin:/root/bin:/opt/torque/bin:/opt/xcat/bin:/opt/xcat/sbin:/usr/lpp/mmfs/bin:/scratch/cneale/exe/mvapich2-1.4rc1/exec/bin/:/scinet/gpc/x1/intel/Compiler/11.0/081/bin/intel64 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/scratch/cneale/exe/mvapich2-1.4rc1/exec/lib/:/scinet/gpc/x1/intel/Compiler/11.0/081/lib/intel64:/scinet/gpc/x1/intel/Compiler/11.0/081/mkl/lib/em64t/ export FFTW_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/intel/fftw-3.1.2/exec export GROMACS_LOCATION=/scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5/exec export CPPFLAGS="-I$FFTW_LOCATION/include -I/scratch/cneale/exe/mvapich2-1.4rc1/exec/include -I/scratch/cneale/exe/mvapich2-1.4rc1/exec/lib" export LDFLAGS=-L$FFTW_LOCATION/lib ./configure --prefix=$GROMACS_LOCATION --without-motif-includes --without-motif-libraries --without-x --without-xml --enable-mpi --program-suffix="_mvapich2" >output.configure.mpi.mvapich2 2>&1 make >output.make.mpi.mvapich2 2>&1 make install-mdrun >output.make_install.mpi.mvapich2 2>&1 make distclean </source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Submitting an IB GPC job using openmpi

<source lang="sh">

1. !/bin/bash
2. PBS -l nodes=10:ib:ppn=8,walltime=40:00:00,os=centos53computeA
3. PBS -N 1

if [ "$PBS_ENVIRONMENT" != "PBS_INTERACTIVE" ]; then

 if [ -n "$PBS_O_WORKDIR" ]; then
   cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
 fi

fi /scinet/gpc/mpi/openmpi/1.3.2-intel-v11.0-ofed/bin/mpirun -np $(wc -l $PBS_NODEFILE | gawk '{print $1}') -machinefile $PBS_NODEFILE /scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5/exec/bin/mdrun_openmpi -deffnm pagp -nosum -dlb yes -npme 24 -cpt 120

1. 1. To submit type: qsub this.sh

</source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Submitting an IB GPC job using mvapich2-1.4rc1

Note that mvapich2-1.4rc1 is not configured to fall back to ethernet so this will not work on the non-IB nodes, even for 8 cores.

<source lang="sh">

1. !/bin/bash
2. PBS -l nodes=4:ib:ppn=8,walltime=30:00:00,os=centos53computeA
3. PBS -N 1

if [ "$PBS_ENVIRONMENT" != "PBS_INTERACTIVE" ]; then

 if [ -n "$PBS_O_WORKDIR" ]; then
   cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
 fi

fi module purge module load mvapich2 intel /scratch/cneale/exe/mvapich2-1.4rc1/bin/mpirun_rsh -np $(wc -l $PBS_NODEFILE | gawk '{print $1}') -hostfile $PBS_NODEFILE /scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5/exec/bin/mdrun_mvapich2 -deffnm pagp -nosum -dlb yes -npme 12 -cpt 120

1. 1. To submit type: qsub this.sh

</source>

-- cneale 18 August 2009

Submitting a non-IB GPC job using openmpi

<source lang="sh">

1. !/bin/bash
2. PBS -l nodes=1:compute-eth:ppn=8,walltime=40:00:00,os=centos53computeA
3. PBS -N 1

if [ "$PBS_ENVIRONMENT" != "PBS_INTERACTIVE" ]; then

 if [ -n "$PBS_O_WORKDIR" ]; then
   cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
 fi

fi /scinet/gpc/mpi/openmpi/1.3.2-intel-v11.0-ofed/bin/mpirun --mca btl self,tcp -np $(wc -l $PBS_NODEFILE | gawk '{print $1}') -machinefile $PBS_NODEFILE /scratch/cneale/exe/intel/gromacs-4.0.5/exec/bin/mdrun_openmpi -deffnm pagp -nosum -dlb yes -npme 24 -cpt 120

1. 1. To submit type: qsub this.sh

</source>

This is VERY IMPORTANT !!! Please read the [relevant user tips section] for information that is essential for your single node (up to 8 core) MPI GROMACS jobs.

-- cneale 14 September 2009

Things still left to do for GROMACS

Intel has it's own fast fourier transform library, which we expect to yield improved performance over fftw. We have not yet attempted such a compilation.

-- cneale 18 August 2009

GROMACS benchmarks on Scinet

This is a rudimentary list of scaling information.

I have a 50K atom system running performance on GPC right now. On 56 cores connected with IB I am getting 55 ns/day. I set up 50 such simulations, each with 2 proteins in a bilayer and I'm getting a total of 5.5 us per day. I am using gromacs 4.0.5 and a 5 fs timestep by fixing the bond lengths and all angles involving hydrogen.

I can get about 12 ns/day on 8 cores of the non-IB part of GPC -- also excellent.

As for larger systems, My speedup over saw.sharcnet.ca for a 1e6 atom system is only 1.2x running on 128 cores in single precision. Although saw.sharcnet.ca is composed of xeons, they are running at 2.83 GHz (https://www.sharcnet.ca/my/systems/show/41), which is a faster clock speed than the Scinet 2.5 GHz for Intel's next-generation X86-CPU architecture. While GROMACS is generally not excellent for scaling up to or beyond 128 cores (even for large systems), our benchmarking of this system on saw.sharcnet.ca indicated that it was running at about 65% efficiency. Benchmarking was also done on Scinet for this system, but was not recorded as we were mostly tinkering with the -npme option to mdrun in an attempt to optimize it. My recollection, though, is that the scaling was similar on scinet.

-- cneale 19 August 2009

Strong scaling for GROMACS on GPC

Requested, and on our list to complete, but not yet available in a complete chart form.

-- cneale 19 August 2009

Scientific studies being carried out using GROMACS on GPC

Requested, but not yet available

-- cneale 19 August 2009

NAMD

NAMD is one of the better scaling MD packages out there. With sufficiently large systems, it is able to scale to hundreds or thousands of cores on Scinet. Below are details for compiling and running NAMD on Scinet.

More information regarding performance and different compile options coming soon...

Compiling NAMD for GPC

Ensure the proper compiler/mpi modules are loaded. <source lang="sh"> module load intel module load openmpi/1.3.3-intel-v11.0-ofed </source>

Compile Charm++ and NAMD <source lang="sh">

1. Unpack source files and get required support libraries

tar -xzf NAMD_2.7b1_Source.tar.gz cd NAMD_2.7b1_Source tar -xf charm-6.1.tar wget http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/libraries/fftw-linux-x86_64.tar.gz wget http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/libraries/tcl-linux-x86_64.tar.gz tar -xzf fftw-linux-x86_64.tar.gz; mv linux-x86_64 fftw tar -xzf tcl-linux-x86_64.tar.gz; mv linux-x86_64 tcl

1. Compile Charm++

cd charm-6.1 ./build charm++ mpi-linux-x86_64 icc --basedir /scinet/gpc/mpi/openmpi/1.3.3-intel-v11.0-ofed/ --no-shared -O -DCMK_OPTIMIZE=1 cd ..

1. Compile NAMD.
2. Edit arch/Linux-x86_64-icc.arch and add "-lmpi" to the end of the CXXOPTS and COPTS line.
3. Make a builds directory if you want different versions of NAMD compiled at the same time.

mkdir builds ./config builds/Linux-x86_64-icc --charm-arch mpi-linux-x86_64-icc cd builds/Linux-x86_64-icc/ make -j4 namd2 # Adjust value of j as desired to specify number of simultaneous make targets. </source> --Cmadill 16:18, 27 August 2009 (UTC)