[gmx-developers] calculating poteintial energy into do_md()

[francesco oteri]

Dear Berk

2012/7/16 Berk Hess <hess at kth.se>

>  On 7/16/12 13:05 , francesco oteri wrote:
>
>  Dear gromacs developers,
> I am trying to implement in gromacs 4.5.5 a particular Hemiltonian Replica
> Exchange tecnique.
> Right now, at every exchange attempt in do_md, I figured out  how to
> access at the potential
> energy of replica A (=configuration A at temperature A) and B
> (=configuration B at temperature B) and so on.
>
> In my case, each replica has the same temperature, but there is a
> different Hemiltonian equation for every replica.
> The different Hemiltonian are obtained simply changing the force field
> parameters in the input topology so I dont
> need to modify anything in gromacs.
>
>  But at every exchange attempt I have to test if the configuration B can
> exist in the state A so I need to calculate
> its potential energy using the force field data of replica A.
>
>  I found that function sum_epot calculates the potential energy but I
> suspect that it uses values calculated in
> do_force since sum_epot is called by do_force_lowlevel in turn called by
> do_force.
>
>
>
>  So my question is, should I call do_force in replica A with coordinates
> from replica B reach my goal?
>
> Yes.
> Are you changing bonded and/or non-bonded parameters?
> Some non-bonded parameters might be preprocessed, so you might need
> reprocess those
> and them reprocesses again to get back to the original state.
>
>
Which parameters need such a preprocessing?



> Note that 4.6 will have proper Hamiltonian replica exchange, but that will
> use the lambda coupling
> parameter approach. If you need to do something similar, it might be much
> simpler to use this code.
>
>

Actually I did it but I the performance decrease a lot (2x).
In particular I run the same run with free_energy  = yes and free_energy =
no and in the second case the run is 2times faster.
I found in the mailing list that this performance drop is known.

Since I dont need to change lambda along the simulation, I prefer using a
modified input topology and running a normal REMD changing something in
repl_ex.c and md.c.

Of course, any suggestions to improve performance are wellcome :)




Cheers,
>
> Berk
>
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
>  Francesco
>
>
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Cordiali saluti, Dr.Oteri Francesco
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