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Visualization using the PyMOL GUI

You can either start the PyMOL GUI either on the login nodes of Linux-Cluster & SuperMUC-NG or by using our remote visualization service (via VNC). We however want to note that the graphics performance on the login nodes is comparatively poor. Therefore, we recommend our users to only start the PyMOL GUI on the login nodes for less demanding visualisations of e.g. small molecules, but not for CPU-intensive renderings using "ray". If you however either want to visualize larger data sets or perform CPU-intensive renderings using "ray", we recommend using our remote visualization service (via VNC) instead. You will then entirely have access to the reserved "localhost" node including GPU resources and can run CPU-intensive tasks within the PyMOL GUI.

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Given the fact that rendering of 3D molecular structures can be very CPU-intensive tasks scaling to XXX, we recommend our users to run PyMOL on via the command line using one (salloc/srun or sbatch) on a whole node of either Linux Cluster or SuperMuc-NG to prepare high-quality, publication-ready molecular images.

For this purpose, you need a previously generated (using the PyMOL GUI either as shown above or on your local computer) ".pse" file containing both 3D coordinates of the molecular structures and information on how the structures should be visualized (e.g. cartoon or ball-and-stick representation).

Furthermore, you need a ".pml" file containing the rendering options:

Via an interactive SLURM shell (recommended for a few jobs or testing purposes)

To e.g. request one node on mpp2 of the Linux Cluster for half an hour, please issue:

For requesting one node on the test partition of SuperMuc-NG for half an hour, please issue:

When a new batch session is returned to you, simply type

to run your SCHRÖDINGER application (for BINARY_NAME, please see the table above).

3.2.2. By submitting a SLURM batch script (recommended for production runs)

For production runs, please create a SLURM batch script and submit via sbatch.

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -o /dss/dsshome1/<group>/<user>/mydir/%x.%j.out
#SBATCH -e /dss/dsshome1/<group>/<user>/mydir/%x.%j.err
#SBATCH -D /dss/dsshome1/<group>/<user>/mydir
#SBATCH -J <job_name>
#SBATCH --time=24:00:00
#SBATCH --clusters=mpp2
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --export=NONE
#SBATCH --get-user-env
#SBATCH --mail-type=end
#SBATCH --mail-user=<email_address>@<domain>

source /etc/profile.d/modules.sh    

module load schrodinger

BINARY_NAME INPUT_FILE.inp

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -o /dss/dsshome1/<group>/<user>/mydir/%x.%j.out
#SBATCH -e /dss/dsshome1/<group>/<user>/mydir/%x.%j.err
#SBATCH -D /dss/dsshome1/<group>/<user>/mydir
#SBATCH -J <job name>
#SBATCH --time=24:00:00
#SBATCH --partition=micro
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --export=NONE
#SBATCH --get-user-env
#SBATCH --mail-type=END
#SBATCH --mail-user=<email_address>@<domain>
#SBATCH --account=<project id>

module load slurm_setup
module load schrodinger

BINARY_NAME INPUT_FILE.inp

Documentation

Please consult the incentive PyMOL Home page for documentation. For PyMOL Command Reference, Quick Reference Guide for Intermediate PyMOL Users

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