[gmx-developers] md-vv and v-rescale thermostat?

Mark Abraham Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Mon Sep 3 15:43:05 CEST 2012


Hi,

I tried the md-vv integrator in release-4-5-patches (2859895) in concert 
with the v-rescale (Bussi) thermostat and found some weird heating 
behaviour on a 900-TIP3P system that was fine with the md integrator. 
(.mdp file at end of email) Michael (or anybody else) is/was this 
thermostat known to work with md-vv?

With md-vv:

            Step           Time         Lambda
               0        0.00000        0.00000

    Energies (kJ/mol)
         LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.      Potential
     1.56788e+04   -2.52945e+02   -3.58017e+04   -3.73679e+03   -2.41127e+04
     Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pres. DC (bar)
     9.86312e+03   -1.42495e+04   -1.42495e+04    4.39597e+02   -1.54019e+02
  Pressure (bar)
    -5.69569e+04


            Step           Time         Lambda
             500        1.00000        0.00000

    Energies (kJ/mol)
         LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.      Potential
     8.23626e+03   -2.52945e+02   -1.74349e+04   -3.27515e+03   -1.27267e+04
     Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pres. DC (bar)
     4.19512e+04    2.92245e+04    2.45247e+04    1.86976e+03   -1.54019e+02
  Pressure (bar)
     2.97051e+04

<snip>

            Step           Time         Lambda
          500000     1000.00000        0.00000

Writing checkpoint, step 500000 at Mon Sep  3 23:15:57 2012


    Energies (kJ/mol)
         LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.      Potential
     1.01917e+04   -2.52945e+02   -1.51940e+04   -3.02693e+03   -8.28214e+03
     Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pres. DC (bar)
     5.17784e+04    4.34963e+04    4.79009e+04    2.30775e+03   -1.54019e+02
  Pressure (bar)
     3.82536e+04

         <======  ###############  ==>
         <====  A V E R A G E S  ====>
         <==  ###############  ======>

         Statistics over 500001 steps using 50001 frames

    Energies (kJ/mol)
         LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.      Potential
     9.71441e+03   -2.52945e+02   -1.51389e+04   -3.03171e+03   -8.70917e+03
     Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pres. DC (bar)
     5.25444e+04    4.38352e+04    4.10799e+04    2.34189e+03   -1.54019e+02
  Pressure (bar)
     3.73202e+04

Obviously this is heating massively at the start and the thermostat is 
totally failing to deal with it. With integrator md:

            Step           Time         Lambda

               0        0.00000        0.00000

    Energies (kJ/mol)

         LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.      Potential

     1.56788e+04   -2.52945e+02   -3.58017e+04   -3.73679e+03   -2.41127e+04

     Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pres. DC (bar)

     1.30540e+04   -1.10587e+04   -1.10587e+04    5.81814e+02   -1.54019e+02

  Pressure (bar)

    -1.29542e+04

            Step           Time         Lambda

             500        1.00000        0.00000

    Energies (kJ/mol)

         LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.      Potential

     4.57027e+03   -2.52945e+02   -3.01897e+04   -4.38326e+03   -3.02556e+04

     Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pres. DC (bar)

     1.07502e+04   -1.95054e+04   -1.39359e+04    4.79135e+02   -1.54019e+02

  Pressure (bar)

     3.29939e+03

<snip>

            Step           Time         Lambda

          500000     1000.00000        0.00000

Writing checkpoint, step 500000 at Wed Aug 29 01:54:51 2012

    Energies (kJ/mol)

         LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.      Potential

     5.72530e+03   -2.52945e+02   -3.72877e+04   -4.50918e+03   -3.63246e+04

     Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pres. DC (bar)

     6.59347e+03   -2.97311e+04   -1.25805e+04    2.93870e+02   -1.54019e+02

  Pressure (bar)

    -1.82664e+02

         <======  ###############  ==>

         <====  A V E R A G E S  ====>

         <==  ###############  ======>

         Statistics over 500001 steps using 50001 frames

    Energies (kJ/mol)

         LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.      Potential

     5.74509e+03   -2.52945e+02   -3.72807e+04   -4.52328e+03   -3.63118e+04

     Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    Temperature Pres. DC (bar)

     6.58722e+03   -2.97246e+04   -1.32539e+04    2.93591e+02   -1.54019e+02

  Pressure (bar)

    -4.77602e+01

This looks fine.

Mark

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