AMBER Archive (2000)

Subject: Re: Amber6 on SGI with IRIX6.5

From: Nelson Brito (ntbrito_at_fc.up.pt)
Date: Sat Oct 07 2000 - 06:38:58 CDT

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Grzegorz Jezierski wrote:

> Dear Amber users,
>
> I'm trying to run an MD simulation on an SGI (R10000, no MPI
> libraries installed, only MPICH), using a parallel version of sander
> (ver. 6). The problem is that binaries do not run on more than one
> processor. Recently, the system has been upgraded to IRIX 6.5
> and I suppose there is a conflict with the Machine file. Before the
> upgrade I had no problem with multiprocessor tasks.

MPICH is an implementation of MPI so you have MPI libraries. On sgi you need
a service called array to run parallel program with MPI, see if you have array
running with "chkconfig | grep array".

regards,
nelson

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