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NAME

       mdrun_mpi - Perform a simulation, do a normal mode analysis or an energy minimization

SYNOPSIS

          mdrun_mpi [-s [<.tpr>]] [-cpi [<.cpt>]] [-table [<.xvg>]]
                    [-tablep [<.xvg>]] [-tableb [<.xvg> [...]]]
                    [-rerun [<.xtc/.trr/...>]] [-ei [<.edi>]]
                    [-multidir [<dir> [...]]] [-awh [<.xvg>]]
                    [-membed [<.dat>]] [-mp [<.top>]] [-mn [<.ndx>]]
                    [-o [<.trr/.cpt/...>]] [-x [<.xtc/.tng>]] [-cpo [<.cpt>]]
                    [-c [<.gro/.g96/...>]] [-e [<.edr>]] [-g [<.log>]]
                    [-dhdl [<.xvg>]] [-field [<.xvg>]] [-tpi [<.xvg>]]
                    [-tpid [<.xvg>]] [-eo [<.xvg>]] [-px [<.xvg>]]
                    [-pf [<.xvg>]] [-ro [<.xvg>]] [-ra [<.log>]] [-rs [<.log>]]
                    [-rt [<.log>]] [-mtx [<.mtx>]] [-if [<.xvg>]]
                    [-swap [<.xvg>]] [-deffnm <string>] [-xvg <enum>]
                    [-dd <vector>] [-ddorder <enum>] [-npme <int>] [-nt <int>]
                    [-ntmpi <int>] [-ntomp <int>] [-ntomp_pme <int>]
                    [-pin <enum>] [-pinoffset <int>] [-pinstride <int>]
                    [-gpu_id <string>] [-gputasks <string>] [-[no]ddcheck]
                    [-rdd <real>] [-rcon <real>] [-dlb <enum>] [-dds <real>]
                    [-nb <enum>] [-nstlist <int>] [-[no]tunepme] [-pme <enum>]
                    [-pmefft <enum>] [-bonded <enum>] [-update <enum>] [-[no]v]
                    [-pforce <real>] [-[no]reprod] [-cpt <real>] [-[no]cpnum]
                    [-[no]append] [-nsteps <int>] [-maxh <real>]
                    [-replex <int>] [-nex <int>] [-reseed <int>]

DESCRIPTION

       mdrun_mpi  is  the  main  computational  chemistry  engine  within  GROMACS. Obviously, it
       performs Molecular Dynamics simulations, but it  can  also  perform  Stochastic  Dynamics,
       Energy  Minimization, test particle insertion or (re)calculation of energies.  Normal mode
       analysis is another option. In this  case  mdrun  builds  a  Hessian  matrix  from  single
       conformation.   For  usual  Normal  Modes-like  calculations, make sure that the structure
       provided is properly energy-minimized.  The generated matrix can be  diagonalized  by  gmx
       nmeig.

       This  version  of  the  program  will  only  run  while using the MPICH parallel computing
       library.  See mpirun(1).  Use the normal gmx(1) program for  conventional  single-threaded
       operations.

       The mdrun program reads the run input file (-s) and distributes the topology over ranks if
       needed.  mdrun produces at least four output files.  A single log file  (-g)  is  written.
       The  trajectory  file  (-o),  contains coordinates, velocities and optionally forces.  The
       structure file (-c) contains the coordinates and velocities of the last step.  The  energy
       file  (-e)  contains  energies,  the temperature, pressure, etc, a lot of these things are
       also printed in the log file.  Optionally coordinates  can  be  written  to  a  compressed
       trajectory file (-x).

       The option -dhdl is only used when free energy calculation is turned on.

       Running  mdrun  efficiently  in  parallel  is  a  complex topic, many aspects of which are
       covered in the online User Guide. You should look there for practical advice on using many
       of the options available in mdrun.

       ED  (essential dynamics) sampling and/or additional flooding potentials are switched on by
       using the -ei flag followed by an .edi file. The  .edi  file  can  be  produced  with  the
       make_edi  tool  or  by  using  options  in  the essdyn menu of the WHAT IF program.  mdrun
       produces a .xvg output file that contains projections of positions, velocities and  forces
       onto selected eigenvectors.

       When  user-defined  potential  functions  have  been  selected in the .mdp file the -table
       option is used to pass mdrun a formatted table with potential functions. The file is  read
       from either the current directory or from the GMXLIB directory.  A number of pre-formatted
       tables are presented in the GMXLIB dir, for  6-8,  6-9,  6-10,  6-11,  6-12  Lennard-Jones
       potentials  with normal Coulomb.  When pair interactions are present, a separate table for
       pair interaction functions is read using the -tablep option.

       When tabulated bonded functions are present in the  topology,  interaction  functions  are
       read  using  the  -tableb  option.   For each different tabulated interaction type used, a
       table file name must be given. For the topology to work, a file name given here must match
       a  character  sequence  before the file extension. That sequence is: an underscore, then a
       'b' for bonds, an 'a' for angles or a 'd' for dihedrals, and finally  the  matching  table
       number  index used in the topology. Note that, these options are deprecated, and in future
       will be available via grompp.

       The options -px and -pf are used for writing pull COM coordinates and forces when  pulling
       is selected in the .mdp file.

       The  option  -membed  does what used to be g_membed, i.e. embed a protein into a membrane.
       This module requires a number of settings that are provided in a data  file  that  is  the
       argument of this option.  For more details in membrane embedding, see the documentation in
       the user guide. The options -mn and -mp are used to provide the index and  topology  files
       used for the embedding.

       The  option  -pforce  is  useful  when  you  suspect a simulation crashes due to too large
       forces. With this option coordinates and forces of  atoms  with  a  force  larger  than  a
       certain  value  will  be printed to stderr. It will also terminate the run when non-finite
       forces are present.

       Checkpoints containing the complete state of the system are written at  regular  intervals
       (option  -cpt) to the file -cpo, unless option -cpt is set to -1.  The previous checkpoint
       is backed up to state_prev.cpt to make sure that a recent state of the  system  is  always
       available, even when the simulation is terminated while writing a checkpoint.  With -cpnum
       all checkpoint files are kept and appended with the step  number.   A  simulation  can  be
       continued by reading the full state from file with option -cpi. This option is intelligent
       in the way that if no checkpoint file is found, GROMACS just  assumes  a  normal  run  and
       starts  from  the  first step of the .tpr file. By default the output will be appending to
       the existing output files. The checkpoint file contains checksums  of  all  output  files,
       such  that  you  will  never  loose  data  when some output files are modified, corrupt or
       removed.  There are three scenarios with -cpi:

       * no files with matching names are present: new output files are written

       * all files are present with names and checksums matching those stored in  the  checkpoint
       file: files are appended

       * otherwise no files are modified and a fatal error is generated

       With  -noappend new output files are opened and the simulation part number is added to all
       output file names.  Note that in all cases the checkpoint file itself is not  renamed  and
       will be overwritten, unless its name does not match the -cpo option.

       With  checkpointing  the  output  is  appended  to previously written output files, unless
       -noappend is used or none of the  previous  output  files  are  present  (except  for  the
       checkpoint  file).   The integrity of the files to be appended is verified using checksums
       which are stored in the checkpoint file. This ensures that output can not be mixed  up  or
       corrupted  due to file appending. When only some of the previous output files are present,
       a fatal error is generated and no old output files are modified and no  new  output  files
       are  opened.   The  result  with  appending  will  be  the same as from a single run.  The
       contents will be binary identical, unless you use a different number of ranks  or  dynamic
       load balancing or the FFT library uses optimizations through timing.

       With option -maxh a simulation is terminated and a checkpoint file is written at the first
       neighbor search step  where  the  run  time  exceeds  -maxh*0.99  hours.  This  option  is
       particularly  useful  in  combination with setting nsteps to -1 either in the mdp or using
       the similarly named command line option (although the latter is deprecated).  This results
       in  an  infinite run, terminated only when the time limit set by -maxh is reached (if any)
       or upon receiving a signal.

       Interactive molecular dynamics (IMD) can be activated by using at least one of  the  three
       IMD  switches:  The  -imdterm  switch  allows  one  to  terminate  the simulation from the
       molecular viewer (e.g. VMD). With  -imdwait,  mdrun  pauses  whenever  no  IMD  client  is
       connected.  Pulling  from  the  IMD  remote  can be turned on by -imdpull.  The port mdrun
       listens to can be altered by -imdport.The file pointed to by -if contains atom indices and
       forces if IMD pulling is used.

OPTIONS

       Options to specify input files:

       -s [<.tpr>] (topol.tpr)
              Portable xdr run input file

       -cpi [<.cpt>] (state.cpt) (Optional)
              Checkpoint file

       -table [<.xvg>] (table.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -tablep [<.xvg>] (tablep.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -tableb [<.xvg> [...]] (table.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -rerun [<.xtc/.trr/...>] (rerun.xtc) (Optional)
              Trajectory: xtc trr cpt gro g96 pdb tng

       -ei [<.edi>] (sam.edi) (Optional)
              ED sampling input

       -multidir [<dir> [...]] (rundir) (Optional)
              Run directory

       -awh [<.xvg>] (awhinit.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -membed [<.dat>] (membed.dat) (Optional)
              Generic data file

       -mp [<.top>] (membed.top) (Optional)
              Topology file

       -mn [<.ndx>] (membed.ndx) (Optional)
              Index file

       Options to specify output files:

       -o [<.trr/.cpt/...>] (traj.trr)
              Full precision trajectory: trr cpt tng

       -x [<.xtc/.tng>] (traj_comp.xtc) (Optional)
              Compressed trajectory (tng format or portable xdr format)

       -cpo [<.cpt>] (state.cpt) (Optional)
              Checkpoint file

       -c [<.gro/.g96/...>] (confout.gro)
              Structure file: gro g96 pdb brk ent esp

       -e [<.edr>] (ener.edr)
              Energy file

       -g [<.log>] (md.log)
              Log file

       -dhdl [<.xvg>] (dhdl.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -field [<.xvg>] (field.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -tpi [<.xvg>] (tpi.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -tpid [<.xvg>] (tpidist.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -eo [<.xvg>] (edsam.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -px [<.xvg>] (pullx.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -pf [<.xvg>] (pullf.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -ro [<.xvg>] (rotation.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -ra [<.log>] (rotangles.log) (Optional)
              Log file

       -rs [<.log>] (rotslabs.log) (Optional)
              Log file

       -rt [<.log>] (rottorque.log) (Optional)
              Log file

       -mtx [<.mtx>] (nm.mtx) (Optional)
              Hessian matrix

       -if [<.xvg>] (imdforces.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       -swap [<.xvg>] (swapions.xvg) (Optional)
              xvgr/xmgr file

       Other options:

       -deffnm <string>
              Set the default filename for all file options

       -xvg <enum> (xmgrace)
              xvg plot formatting: xmgrace, xmgr, none

       -dd <vector> (0 0 0)
              Domain decomposition grid, 0 is optimize

       -ddorder <enum> (interleave)
              DD rank order: interleave, pp_pme, cartesian

       -npme <int> (-1)
              Number of separate ranks to be used for PME, -1 is guess

       -nt <int> (0)
              Total number of threads to start (0 is guess)

       -ntmpi <int> (0)
              Number of thread-MPI ranks to start (0 is guess)

       -ntomp <int> (0)
              Number of OpenMP threads per MPI rank to start (0 is guess)

       -ntomp_pme <int> (0)
              Number of OpenMP threads per MPI rank to start (0 is -ntomp)

       -pin <enum> (auto)
              Whether mdrun should try to set thread affinities: auto, on, off

       -pinoffset <int> (0)
              The lowest logical core number to which mdrun should pin the first thread

       -pinstride <int> (0)
              Pinning  distance  in  logical  cores  for threads, use 0 to minimize the number of
              threads per physical core

       -gpu_id <string>
              List of unique GPU device IDs available to use

       -gputasks <string>
              List of GPU device IDs, mapping each PP task on each node to a device

       -[no]ddcheck (yes)
              Check for all bonded interactions with DD

       -rdd <real> (0)
              The maximum distance for bonded interactions with DD  (nm),  0  is  determine  from
              initial coordinates

       -rcon <real> (0)
              Maximum distance for P-LINCS (nm), 0 is estimate

       -dlb <enum> (auto)
              Dynamic load balancing (with DD): auto, no, yes

       -dds <real> (0.8)
              Fraction in (0,1) by whose reciprocal the initial DD cell size will be increased in
              order to provide a margin in which dynamic load balancing can act while  preserving
              the minimum cell size.

       -nb <enum> (auto)
              Calculate non-bonded interactions on: auto, cpu, gpu

       -nstlist <int> (0)
              Set nstlist when using a Verlet buffer tolerance (0 is guess)

       -[no]tunepme (yes)
              Optimize PME load between PP/PME ranks or GPU/CPU

       -pme <enum> (auto)
              Perform PME calculations on: auto, cpu, gpu

       -pmefft <enum> (auto)
              Perform PME FFT calculations on: auto, cpu, gpu

       -bonded <enum> (auto)
              Perform bonded calculations on: auto, cpu, gpu

       -update <enum> (auto)
              Perform update and constraints on: auto, cpu, gpu

       -[no]v (no)
              Be loud and noisy

       -pforce <real> (-1)
              Print all forces larger than this (kJ/mol nm)

       -[no]reprod (no)
              Try to avoid optimizations that affect binary reproducibility

       -cpt <real> (15)
              Checkpoint interval (minutes)

       -[no]cpnum (no)
              Keep and number checkpoint files

       -[no]append (yes)
              Append  to  previous output files when continuing from checkpoint instead of adding
              the simulation part number to all file names

       -nsteps <int> (-2)
              Run this number of steps (-1 means infinite, -2 means use mdp  option,  smaller  is
              invalid)

       -maxh <real> (-1)
              Terminate after 0.99 times this time (hours)

       -replex <int> (0)
              Attempt replica exchange periodically with this period (steps)

       -nex <int> (0)
              Number  of  random  exchanges  to  carry  out  each  exchange  interval (N^3 is one
              suggestion).  -nex zero or not specified gives neighbor replica exchange.

       -reseed <int> (-1)
              Seed for replica exchange, -1 is generate a seed

SEE ALSO

       gmx(1)

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