AW: cuda_check_local_progress polled 1000000 times

From: Norman Geist (norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2012 - 00:29:17 CDT

Hi Francesco,

there are two possibilitys in my mind why this error occurs.

1. You are using a beta and the issue is fixed with the final 2.9 <-- more likely
2. You GPU is broken. <-- more unlikely

Regards

Norman Geist.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im
> Auftrag von Francesco Pietra
> Gesendet: Montag, 4. Juni 2012 19:21
> An: NAMD
> Betreff: Re: namd-l: cuda_check_local_progress polled 1000000 times
>
> Hello:
> Now, with amber parm7 regular files, the system (protein in a water
> box at 0.M NaCl concentration, and a few calcium++ ions), was
> minimized with namd 2.9b.3 multicore, then heated gradually to 285K
> with namd-cuda 2.9 (20,000 steps). Equilibration at such temp,, 1atm,
> crashed with same error "namd-l: cuda_check_local_progress polled
> 1000000 times" at step 18400, out of planned 500,000. Setting of the
> conf file was the same as for successful MD/amber parm 7 with
> namd-cuda 2.8 in the past.
>
> francesco pietra
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Francesco Pietra
> <chiendarret_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello:
> > With namd-cuda 2.9 on a shared-mem machine with two GTX-580 (Debian
> > amd64) minimization (ts 0.1fs, wrap all) on a new system of a protein
> > in a water box, crashed at step 2,296 out of planned 10,000. Changing
> > to 2.9b3 multicore, the minimization worked well, ending at grad 1.5.
> > I did not notice if this known issue at the time of beta tests had
> > been fixed.
> >
> > Thanks
> > francesco pietra
> >
> >

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