On 3/18/14 11:38 AM, Robert Thompson wrote:
> Hi Volker thanks for your quick reply! I should note that the ICs were generated via N-GenIC and I am running the simulation with Gadget3.
>
>> It looks like your initial conditions file contains incorrect entries for the particle count. Note that 2250^3 > 2^32, i.e. your total particle count does not fit into an ordinary 32-bit unsigned int. In gadget2, the higher-order word is stored in a separate field in the file header (npartTotalHighWord[]).
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>> Check out the calculation of "All.TotNumPart" as well as of that of "All.MaxPart" in read_ic.c. For some reason you are getting All.MaxPart = 0, likely due to an incorrect value of the computed value of All.TotNumPart, which in turn probably originates in a faulty IC file header.
> I had a sneaking suspicion of this. It seems neither N-GenIC nor 2LPTic contains npartTotalHighWord, apparently the values are stored in npartTotal[1] & npartTotal[2], which interestingly enough are 0 in my IC header (probably the source of the problem). In N-GenIC I commented out NO64BITID (and enabled LONGIDS in gadget), are there any other tricks to getting it to create such large ICs?
>
>
>> Note: 128000 cores is pretty over the top for this particle count. I doubt that Gadget2 (which is nearly 10 years old) will work well for such a large number of MPI ranks - never tried it myself.
> I felt that was far too many cores myself; I figured even if I did get it to run the MPI overhead would slow it to a crawl.
>
> -Robert
>
>
Hi Robert,
I have run into a similar issue in the past -- the public version of
2LPTic assigns the "overflow" particles into npart[2]. Line 115 in
save.c reads as:
header.npartTotal[2] = (TotNumPart >> 32);
You need to change this to:
header.npartTotalHighWord[1] = (TotNumPart >> 32);
You will also need to get the updated header definition from a working
copy of Gadget2. Otherwise, the HighWord field is not defined.
In addition, since in your case Nmesh^3 exceeds UINT_MAX (2^32-1 for a
64 bit system), you will also need to modify main.c line 101 and declare
nmesh3 as a double, and change the corresponding calculation for nmesh3
in line 558 and the (float) cast during the division by nmesh3 on line 625.
Presumably, the changes for N-Genic will be at similar places - so I
hope this helps.
Cheers,
Manodeep
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