Error while "make check" in installing GPU version of GROMACS

GROMACS version: 2022.1
GROMACS modification: No
My workstation has a nvidia RTX A4000 GPU. So I tried compiling the GPU version of GROMACS 2022. I followed the steps prescribed in the installation guide here: Installation guide — GROMACS 5.1.2 documentation. But during the ‘make check’ step, few of the tests fail and I am unable to fix this error even after setting the LB_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable as suggested in other solutions. I have attached the output of ‘nvidia-smi’, the commands i have used, and the error message. Can someone help me find the issue in this case ?

Commands i have used
tar xfz gromacs-5.1.2.tar.gz
cd gromacs-5.1.2
mkdir build
cd build
cmake … -DGMX_BUILD_OWN_FFTW=ON -DREGRESSIONTEST_DOWNLOAD=ON -DGMX_GPU=ON
make
make check

Output of nvidia-smi command
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 510.47.03 Driver Version: 510.47.03 CUDA Version: 11.6 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA RTX A4000 On | 00000000:9E:00.0 On | Off |
| 41% 35C P8 17W / 140W | 474MiB / 16376MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2058 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 65MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2553 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 185MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2679 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 90MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 97256 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 122MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Error message:
89% tests passed, 10 tests failed out of 88

Label Time Summary:
GTest = 62.39 secproc (81 tests)
IntegrationTest = 17.21 sec
proc (25 tests)
MpiTest = 40.13 secproc (19 tests)
SlowTest = 40.57 sec
proc (13 tests)
UnitTest = 4.61 sec*proc (43 tests)

Total Test time (real) = 116.94 sec

The following tests FAILED:
3 - NbLibListedForcesTests (Child aborted)
6 - NbLibUtilTests (Child aborted)
7 - NbLibSetupTests (Child aborted)
9 - NbLibIntegrationTests (Child aborted)
10 - NbLibIntegratorTests (Child aborted)
16 - MdlibUnitTest (Failed)
25 - DomDecMpiTests (Failed)
26 - EwaldUnitTests (Failed)
27 - FFTUnitTests (Failed)
28 - GpuUtilsUnitTests (Failed)
Errors while running CTest
make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys.dir/build.make:58: CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys] Error 8
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2846: CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2825: CMakeFiles/check.dir/rule] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:249: check] Error 2

Sorry, I followed the installation guide from https://manual.gromacs.org/current/install-guide/index.html and not from 5.1.2. Hope this clarifies.

Raghu

Do the tests pass if you run GMX_DISABLE_GPU_DETECTION=1 make check (so tests without GPU). What’s the output if you run bin/gpu_utils-test?

HI,

Thanks! For the " `GMX_DISABLE_GPU_DETECTION=1 make check" I get

89% tests passed, 10 tests failed out of 88

Label Time Summary:
GTest = 64.59 secproc (81 tests)
IntegrationTest = 17.04 sec
proc (25 tests)
MpiTest = 42.03 secproc (19 tests)
SlowTest = 43.07 sec
proc (13 tests)
UnitTest = 4.48 sec*proc (43 tests)

Total Test time (real) = 299.07 sec

The following tests FAILED:
3 - NbLibListedForcesTests (Child aborted)
6 - NbLibUtilTests (Child aborted)
7 - NbLibSetupTests (Child aborted)
9 - NbLibIntegrationTests (Child aborted)
10 - NbLibIntegratorTests (Child aborted)
16 - MdlibUnitTest (Failed)
25 - DomDecMpiTests (Failed)
26 - EwaldUnitTests (Failed)
27 - FFTUnitTests (Failed)
28 - GpuUtilsUnitTests (Failed)
Errors while running CTest
make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys.dir/build.make:58: CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys] Error 8
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2846: CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:2825: CMakeFiles/check.dir/rule] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:249: check] Error 2

And the output for bin/gpu_utils_test is

./gpu_utils-test: symbol lookup error: ./gpu_utils-test: undefined symbol: _ZNK12DeviceStream6streamEv

Raghu

I think your build is broken, try to make a clean build and make sure you don’t have another GROMACS installation or build tree in the path.

Sir I have the problem with installation of GROMACS with ‘make check’
The following tests FAILED:
7 - NbLibSetupTests (Failed)
Errors while running CTest
make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys.dir/build.make:71: CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys] Error 8
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:3275: CMakeFiles/run-ctest-nophys.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:3309: CMakeFiles/check.dir/rule] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:628: check] Error 2
Please help me in solving this issue.
Thank you

Hi @pszilard , for me the 7 - NbLibSetupTests (failed). I ran GMX_DISABLE_GPU_DETECTION=1 make check and
bin/gpu_utils-test. For the both the scenarios all the tests passed. Could you suggest what does that mean?

Best,
Sid

If you’re using GROMACS 2024.0 or 2024.1 and that’s the only problem you’re seeing, that’s a bug in our test suite. It will be fixed in 2024.2; you can safely ignore this error for now.

If there are other tests failing, please share a full log.

It’s 2024.1. Great! Thanks a lot.

Best,
Sid