Compiling Desmond from source code seems to be the most challenging work that I've ever found especially the latest V3.4. Fortunately, it was successfully compiled these days. During the sampling test, 2 CPU can even get up to 4 ns/day with NVE ensemble for a typical membrane system which is really amazing.
the values printed should be correspond to steps 160 and 200 and should be identical to the final few lines of values obtained when running the first parallel simulation.
parallel testing: setenv DESMOND_PLUGIN_PATH /soft/desmond-3.4/desmond/lib/plugin set path=(/soft/desmond-3.4/desmond/bin $path)
The first commands sets an environment variable that determines where Desmond will search for its dynamically loaded plugins. Using the instructions above there are one or two plugins built that contain 'destriers'. Destriers implement communication protocols in Desmond with the default protocol being one for a single processor. The second command runs two mdsim.exe processes using the Open MPI job launcher orterun and the Desmond 'mpi' destrier. The third command again compares the results obtained from the parallel run with those of the serial run. Note,that in general these results will be different.