grimme-lab / CENSO

CENSO - Commandline ENergetic SOrting of Conformer Rotamer Ensembles
https://xtb-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CENSO_docs/censo.html
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Optimisation throttling #37

Open andre-cloud opened 2 years ago

andre-cloud commented 2 years ago

Hello, we were using censo for a while, but only in the last period, we had some throttling problems during all the calculation parts.

To launch the optimisation, we use the command: censo -inp ensemble.xyz -P 4 -O 11 in the node, we do observe 44 threads running but only 11 CPUs are used. Therefore, the optimisation is slow due to the ping-pong-like effect of the CPU used.

Have you ever encountered this problem before? Can you help us resolve it?

Processors:

OS info: CentOS Stream version 8

Censo version: 1.2.0 Orca version: 5.0.3

Environment variables: export OMP_NUM_THREADS=44 export MKL_NUM_THREADS=44 ulimit -s unlimited export OMP_STACKSIZE=1G