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

Shirts, Michael (mrs5pt) mrs5pt at eservices.virginia.edu
Mon Sep 3 15:52:36 CEST 2012


Strange.  I've tested this before.  Though perhaps I only tested in 4.6
pre-release, and a fix needs to be regressed. . . I'll look at this when I
get a chance today.

Best,
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Michael Shirts
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Virginia
michael.shirts at virginia.edu
(434)-243-1821


> From: Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>
> Reply-To: Discussion list for GROMACS development <gmx-developers at gromacs.org>
> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 23:43:05 +1000
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS development <gmx-developers at gromacs.org>
> Subject: [gmx-developers] md-vv and v-rescale thermostat?
> 
> 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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