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GROMACS

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GROMACS is a molecular dynamics simulation package originally developed in the University of Groningen.

How to use GROMACS on int.eu.grid

Create a JDL file for your job, e.g. gromacs.jdl. If you are not familiar with JDL see first our page about submitting jobs to the Grid. In this example we are submitting a MPI job requesting 4 processors:

 JobType             = "Parallel";
 SubJobType          = "OpenMPI";
 NodeNumber          = 4;
 VirtualOrganisation = "icompchem";
 Executable          = "mdrun";
 Arguments           ="-v -s full -e full-o full -c after_full -g flog -N 4";
 StdOutput           = "std.out"; 
 StdError            = "std.err";
 InputSandbox        = {"speptide.top","after_pr.gro","full.mdp","gromacs_hooks.sh"};
 OutputSandbox       = {"std.out","std.err"};
 Environment         = {"I2G_MPI_PRE_RUN_HOOK=./gromacs_hooks.sh","I2G_MPI_POST_RUN_HOOK=./gromacs_hooks.sh"};


Now we create the shell script, gromacs_hooks.sh, containing the pre- and post- run actions of the simulation with GROMACS.

 #!/bin/sh
 
 export OUTPUT_ARCHIVE=output.tar.gz
 export OUTPUT_HOST=se.i2g.cesga.es
 export OUTPUT_SE=lfn:/grid/icompchem/test
 export OUTPUT_VO=icompchem
 
 pre_run_hook() 
 {
   echo "pre_run_hook called"
 
   # Here comes the pre-mpirun actions of gromacs
   export PATH=$PATH:/$VO_ICOMPCHEM_SW_DIR/gromacs-3.3/bin
   grompp -v -f full -o full -c after_pr -p speptide -np 4
 
   return 0
 }
 
 post_run_hook() 
 {
   echo "post_run_hook called"
 
   if [ "x$MPI_START_SHARED_FS" == "x0" ] ; then
     echo "Gather output from remote hosts"
     mpi_start_foreach_host copy_from_remote_node
   fi
   
   echo "Pack the data and bring it to an Storage Element"
   tar -cvzf $OUTPUT_ARCHIVE *
   
   echo "Upload the data"
   lcg-cr --vo $OUTPUT_VO -d $OUTPUT_HOST -l $OUTPUT_SE/$OUTPUT_ARCHIVE file://$PWD/$OUTPUT_ARCHIVE
   
   return 0
 }

Finally submit it to our testbed by typing:

 i2g-job-submit gromacs.jdl

If you are interested in using GROMACS or similar Computational Chemistry software on the Grid contact the support to applications team.

External links

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