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Replica exchange of the disordering of a cluster
Dear Student,
In order to be able to run simulations at high priority, today we will work on the Empa Cluster. We have created a personal account for you. Since the cluster is behind a firewall, we must connect to a gate machine (jumphost) to be allowed to access to the cluster. For security reasons, there are two temporary passwords that you should change to a personal password (can be the same for the gate and for the cluster.
Here the instructions to connect. Your username/password (EMPA-USER, TEMP-PASSW1, TEMP-PASSW2) are listed at the end of this message.
1) Decide a password (we will call it EMPA-PASSW )
2) connect to the jumphost:
ssh -X EMPA-USER@jump1.empa.ch Password: TEMP-PASSW1
3) Accept the contract
4) Set a new password (input old password, TEMP-PASSW1, write new password, EMPA-PASSW)
5) Connect to hypatia: ssh -X hypatia password: TEMP-PASSW2
6) Accept the contract
7) Change your password as in point 4) using TMP-PASSW2 as old password and set EMPA-PASSW
User-specific information (note: TMP-PASSW1 ist the password for jump1, that is the FIRST one, but is listed as second):
EMPA-USER:TMP-PASSW2:TMP-PASSW1
[you@hypatia ~]$ mmm-init [you@hypatia ~]$ cd /mnt/scratch/YOURUSER/ [you@hypatia ~]$ cp -r /home/psd/exercise_7 . [you@hypatia ~]$ cd exercise_7
The commands that you need to do to perform the exercise are, in this order:
[you@hypatia ~]$ qsub 00_run [you@hypatia ~]$ ./01_adapt_files [you@hypatia ~]$ ./02_reorder [you@hypatia ~]$ ./03_extract_allaverages
Running the job
The script contains the directives for the queuing system, including 16 cores on one nodes reserved for the job.
#=== job name: #PBS -N parallel #=== wall time limit (h:m:s) #PBS -l walltime=1:00:00 #choice of the number of nodes and proc. per node #PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=16 #PBS -q short #which queue #=== memory usage ##PBS -l mem=1024mb #=== join stdout and stderr #PBS -j oe #====================================== # # set environment variables # module unload mvapich2 module load openmpi module load lammps/17Nov16/openmpi/2.0.1/gcc/4.9.4 cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR rm parallel.o* log.* screen* mpiexec -np 16 lmp_mpi -partition 16x1 -in input
The last line is the command to run a parallel lammps job with the input file input
The input file for lammps
The file input contains information for the program lammps. Details on the documentation can be found here
There is an initialization section, showing the kind of units (see this page), the dimensionality, the boundary conditions.
# Initialization units metal dimension 3 boundary p p p atom_style atomic
In the second part of the input file a spherical region is defined (to confine the cluster). Then the atoms are read from input.dat. We also assign a mass to the kind number 1 (there is just one atomic type for Argon).
region rs sphere 0 0 0 12.66 read_data input.dat mass 1 39.948
Then, we define the parameters for the Lennard-Jones potential. The units are eV for epsilon, and angstrom for sigma. The last number is the cutoff, in Angstrom.
pair_style lj/cut 8.5 pair_coeff 1 1 0.01042 3.405 8.5
Then, we initialize the fix and the velocity as well as the temperature of each replica, which have been previously generated using the program t.x present in the same directory. We distribute the temperature exponentially between 2 K and 40 K. In LAMMPS, a fix is any operation that is applied to the system during timestepping or minimization. Here we have a fix for controlling temperature with NVT (a different temperature for each temperature), and a fix for applying a harmonic restraint to the spherical region confining the cluster. In this way, the atoms going beyond this region will be elastically pushed back into the sphere.
variable i equal part variable t world 2.00 2.44 2.98 3.64 4.45 5.43 6.63 8.09 9.88 12.07 14.74 17.99 21.97 26.83 32.76 40.00 velocity all create $t 293288 velocity all zero linear velocity all zero angular fix 1 all nvt temp $t $t 0.1 fix 2 all wall/region rs harmonic 2.0 0.0 0.4
The next section is about writing out each 1000 steps the relevant information about temperature and energy. We also dump a restart file at the end, and every 10000 steps a structure in xyz format.
thermo 1000 thermo_style custom step temp pe ke etotal thermo_modify line one restart 5000000 restart.* dump 2 all xyz 10000 structure_$i.xyz dump_modify 2 element "Ar" sort id
Finally, this is the command to run the tempering, with an exchange move attempted every 1000 step of molecular dynamics and an initial temperature $t that is different from replica to replica. The last numbers are random seeds that are used for choosing which replica to exchange and for the Metropolis criterion.
temper 5000000 1000 $t 1 3678 3490
Adapting the output files
We must now make some postprocessing on the output files. The goal is to performs averages at different temperatures. These averages are enhanced by the exchanges that were performed between different molecular dynamics replica. Note that temperature is set by a thermostat.
The script 01_adapt_files performs the following operations:
- prunes the
log.lammpsfile which contains a log of all exchanges between the replicas. Take only the steps for which we also have a dump of the atomic coordinates. - For all the
log.lammps.*files from each replica take only the lines for which we also have a dump of the atomic coordinates. These lines are put in a file *.nxyz, one for each replica. Each line contains temperatures, potential energies, etc. - Compute the q4 order parameter for all structure files and create
*.q4files, one for each replica. - now paste the
*.nxyzand the*.q4files into a filet_q4_epot_etot.*.outcontaining the dump of temperature, energy, q4 every 10000 steps.
Reordering the replica: one temperature, one file
At this point, we have a set of t_q4_epot_etot.*.out, one for each replica (processor). But along each of these files, the temperatures change a lot due to the exchanges. So, we use the file exchanges_nxyz.log that keeps track of the exchanges, and tells us at a given timestep which replica has which temperature: we scramble the t_q4_epot_etot.*.out files, and at the end we will have one file for each temperature. This is accomplished by the script 02_reorder.
- Consider each file t_q4_epot_etot.*.out (processor by processor). Say you consider the number 5 (6th replica):
t_epot_q4_etot.5.out. - At the step 50000, the file shows the following line:
50000 6.7133746 -1.7636174 0.189 -1.7315099
indicating a temperature of 6.7133746.
- The file
exchanges_nxyz.log, at the step 50000, gives us the following line:
50000 7 0 3 2 1 6 10 5 12 8 11 4 9 13 15 14
indicating that at the 6th replica (column 7), we have the temperature 6, which is (see input file) T=6.63 K. Meaning that at step 50000, the thermostat is keeping replica 5 around the temperature T=6.63 K.
- This means that this line has to be stored in the temperature file number 6.
At the end of the above procedure performed by the small script section:
NP=16 NP1=$[NP-1] rm torder* for repl in `seq 0 $NP1` do echo $repl awk -v rep=$repl '{r2=rep+2;print $r2}' < exchanges_nxyz.log > rep_$repl i=0 for a in `cat rep_$repl` do i=$[i+1] head -$i t_q4_epot_etot.$repl.out | tail -1 >> torder.$a done done
we will have a set of files, one for each temperature. The file torder.6 (showing the temperature log around T=6.63 K shows something like that:
110000 6.0832407 0.188 -1.7669426 -1.7378488 300000 5.3292135 0.189 -1.7741021 -1.7486144 460000 7.270977 0.188 -1.7594967 -1.7247223 850000 5.547995 0.189 -1.7583209 -1.7317869 900000 6.0463203 0.190 -1.7563726 -1.7274553 1100000 7.4527984 0.189 -1.7608437 -1.7251998 1160000 7.660013 0.189 -1.7653205 -1.7286855 1290000 7.634912 0.188 -1.7551173 -1.7186023 1520000 6.7791476 0.190 -1.7719473 -1.7395252 1530000 5.562028 0.189 -1.7551797 -1.7285786 1540000 5.9499865 0.189 -1.7682706 -1.739814 1560000 8.0181451 0.186 -1.7549744 -1.7166267 1670000 6.4413007 0.189 -1.7601051 -1.7292988 1740000 5.5362416 0.188 -1.7592589 -1.7327812 1750000 6.8539271 0.189 -1.7645124 -1.7317327 2030000 7.8928443 0.188 -1.7657447 -1.7279962 2040000 5.3275227 0.189 -1.763795 -1.7383155 2100000 5.7265507 0.189 -1.7645332 -1.7371452 2550000 8.1985344 0.189 -1.7581595 -1.7189489 2580000 7.3481203 0.190 -1.7668799 -1.7317366 2780000 6.7587102 0.189 -1.7581622 -1.7258378 2800000 7.1581346 0.188 -1.7609368 -1.7267022 ...
As you see, the number of steps is not ordered. This is easily achieved by the last part of the script 02_reorder
for repl in `seq 0 $NP1` do sort -nk1 torder.$repl > temp mv temp torder.$repl done
and now the same file torder.6 shows the following lines:
0 6.5781351 0.191 -1.7950808 -1.7636201 10000 5.4632389 0.188 -1.7609687 -1.7348401 20000 5.498244 0.189 -1.7597787 -1.7334826 30000 5.5142334 0.190 -1.7559687 -1.7295962 40000 7.4876442 0.189 -1.7622814 -1.7264708 50000 6.7133746 0.189 -1.7636174 -1.7315099 60000 5.9256132 0.188 -1.7593177 -1.7309777 70000 5.8414791 0.182 -1.7619757 -1.7340381 80000 3.9373038 0.189 -1.7687489 -1.7499183 90000 9.949782 0.189 -1.7640962 -1.7165101 100000 7.5855163 0.189 -1.7616613 -1.7253826 110000 6.0832407 0.188 -1.7669426 -1.7378488 120000 7.047375 0.189 -1.7588753 -1.7251703 130000 6.3651424 0.188 -1.7596141 -1.729172 140000 8.268057 0.188 -1.7647263 -1.7251833 150000 5.9081219 0.189 -1.7641776 -1.7359213 160000 5.2026849 0.188 -1.7603192 -1.7354367 170000 7.1694387 0.190 -1.762217 -1.7279282 180000 5.3619579 0.188 -1.7596472 -1.7340029 190000 7.9061423 0.188 -1.7631399 -1.7253278 200000 8.0048742 0.188 -1.7612416 -1.7229573 210000 9.5218385 0.189 -1.758481 -1.7129416 220000 6.3793891 0.189 -1.7658995 -1.7353892 230000 7.5105967 0.189 -1.7545324 -1.7186121 240000 7.6066407 0.188 -1.7643938 -1.7280141 250000 5.969687 0.189 -1.7611185 -1.7325677 260000 6.6266784 0.189 -1.761914 -1.730221 270000 6.8500414 0.181 -1.7615648 -1.7288036 280000 4.0299504 0.187 -1.7663177 -1.747044 ...
Extract averages
Now we are ready to extract averages at each temperature. This is achieved by the m_* function m_average (hint: look for the code of this function in the file /share/apps/m_functions.bash), which is used in the script 03_extract_allaverages.
. /share/apps/m_functions.bash rm averages_t_q4_epot_etot for a in torder.? torder.?? do t=`m_average $a 2` q4=`m_average $a 4` epot=`m_average $a 3` etot=`m_average $a 5` echo $t $q4 $epot $etot >> averages_t_q4_epot_etot done
At this point you have a file averages_t_q4_epot_etot with the corresponding averages for each temperature.
ASSIGNMENTS
- Using
gnuplot, plot the steps vs. q4 (columns 1 and 3) from the filet_q4_epot_etot.0.out,t_q4_epot_etot.13.out,t_q4_epot_etot.15.out. Comment what you observe. - Compare using gnuplot the plot of the nsteps vs. potential energy (columns 1 and 4) for
t_q4_epot_etot.13.outandtorder.13. Comment the differences - Plot the
q4intorder.0,torder.5,torder.10,torder.15. Comment the differences. - Using the averages file, try to reproduce figure 2, top panel of the paper 10.1063/1.481671.
- ADVANCED . Describe what you would need to reproduce Fig. 1 of the same paper. What does this figure show? Find the reference to this figure in the text of the paper.
- ADVANCED . Using the
torder.*files, and using eq. (14), obtain Fig. 1 of the paper.