Hi,
If you simulate a single polymer, the I homogeneous particle distribution is only one problem. Espresso also tries to make the verlet cutoff as small as possible. That is good in melts, where the computation time scales like cutoff^3, but for polymers, bigger cut offs are probably better. You can play with setmd max_num_cells to limit the number of cells and by that increasing the cell size.
Having said that, I can only support what Peter said: simulating a 4000 beads chain will not produce anything statistically significant. You need some wrapping clever MC to generate configurations, then you can use MD to study eg short time dynamics, but not more.
In this case, you will pretty much for sure be better off running many single core instances. But even then, you should tune max num cells.
Axel Axel Arnold Martha-Schmidtmann-Str. 7 70374 Stuttgart, Germany Phone: +49 173 870 6659 Am 24.04.2015 um 16:07 schrieb Peter Košovan < address@hidden>: Hi Dušan,
What cellsystem do you use? What is the range and type of interactions? How many steps in the all-atom simulation were your several nanoseconds? Note that if you run a single polymer chain (I suppose implicit solvent with Langevin dynamics), then the matter is distributed very unevenly in your box. So Espresso cannot fully benefit from its domain decomposition cellsystem (default), which divides the box evenly among all your CPUs. Some of your CPUs work hard, while others are bored. If your box is much bigger than the chain and the chain is very long, maybe just a single CPU works hard. It might be a good idea to try nsquare cellsystem. In contrast, in an atomistic simulation there is a rather homogeneous distribution of matter and the cellsystem gives each CPU its fair share of the load.
Greetings, peter Btw: simulating 4k long polymer with Langevin dynamics is hopeless. The dynamics of such a long chain is far too slow to obtain meaningful statistics in a reasonable time (human lifetime). The characteristic time scale increases roughly as N^{5/3}. If you need such long chains, you should use MC.
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