Purpose: Molecular Dynamics
Latest version: 23Jun2022
License: (tick) Free of use
                 GNU GPL _ext-link
Website: http://lammps.sandia.gov/ _ext-link

LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics application.

It performs atomistic or coarse-grained simulations of molecular, macromolecular and mesoscale systems with a variety of force fields.

SLURM Submit script example


More information about the submit script can be found using the Job Script Generator.


lammps_example.slm
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -J lammps_example
#SBATCH -e lammps_example.err
#SBATCH -o lammps_example.out
#SBATCH -p std
#SBATCH -n 1
#SBATCH -t 0-02:00

module load apps/lammps/31Aug2018

##
#  Modify the input and output files!
INPUT_FILE=lammps_example.in
OUTPUT_FILE=lammps_example.log

cp -r ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}/${INPUT_FILE} ${SCRATCH}
cd ${SCRATCH}
 
srun lmp_mpi -in ${INPUT_FILE} > ${OUTPUT_FILE}
 
cp ./${OUTPUT_FILE} ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}

Sbatch options:

The options shown in the example are detailed below. For more information and a more comprehensive list of available options, see the sbatch command page.

  • -J: Name for the job's allocation.
  • -e: Name of the sterr redirection filename.
  • -o: Name of the stdout redirection filename.
  • -p: Name of the partition (queue) where the job will be submited.
  • -n: Number of tasks.

  • -c: Number of cores per task.
  • -t: Set the job's time limit. If the job don't finish before the time runs out, it will be killed.




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