[gmx-developers] -dhdl flag in gmx energy obsolete?

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Fri Jan 6 22:01:18 CET 2017


On 05/01/17 17:22, Michael R Shirts wrote:
> I added a redmine feature for this
> (http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/2097), at low priority, so it’s
> remembered.

Great, I did implement a test for it now, hope we can finalize this soon...
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> Best,
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> Michael Shirts
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> *From: *<gromacs.org_gmx-developers-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se> on
> behalf of Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
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> *Date: *Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 9:12 AM
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> "gromacs.org_gmx-developers at maillist.sys.kth.se"
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> *Subject: *Re: [gmx-developers] -dhdl flag in gmx energy obsolete?
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>
>
> Hi,
>
> Yeah, we should plan for a world where mdrun doesn't write any text
> files, and perhaps as few files as possible. An analysis tool that just
> dumps to xvg seems like the right way to serve any need to support
> existing tools that read such xvg, like gmx traj does now.
>
> Mark
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>
>
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 16:20 David van der Spoel <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
> <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/01/17 11:59, Berk Hess wrote:
>     > We anyhow want the edr storage, since that uses an order of magnitude
>     > less space.
>     >
>     Ok, then I will try to generate a test case for this code too.
>
>     > Berk
>     >
>     > On 2017-01-04 16:56, Michael R Shirts wrote:
>     >> The reason the mechanism of storing the information necessary for
>     >> recreating the .dhdl file in the .edr file was introduced was, I
>     >> believe, to move away from having a separate dhdl.xvg file, and
>     >> instead have that data stored in the .edr like the other energy data.
>     >>
>     >> It does seem a bit redundant to have two ways of storing and
>     >> regenerating that information, but if we had to pick one, it would
>     >> presumably be the .edr file to match the other methods.
>     >>
>     >> Best,
>     >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>     >> Michael Shirts
>     >> Associate Professor
>     >> michael.shirts at colorado.edu <mailto:michael.shirts at colorado.edu>
>     >> http://www.colorado.edu/lab/shirtsgroup/
>     >> Phone: (303) 735-7860
>     >> Office: JSCBB C123
>     >> Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
>     >> University of Colorado Boulder
>     >>
>     >> On 1/3/17, 6:37 AM,
>     >> "gromacs.org_gmx-developers-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se
>     <mailto:gromacs.org_gmx-developers-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se> on
>     behalf of
>     >> Berk Hess"
>     <gromacs.org_gmx-developers-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se
>     <mailto:gromacs.org_gmx-developers-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se> on
>     >> behalf of hess at kth.se <mailto:hess at kth.se>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>      Hi,
>     >>           I would think this is quite useful if you want to process
>     >> dH/dl data
>     >>      with something else than gmx energy, e.g. python scripts for
>     MBAR.
>     >>           Cheers,
>     >>           Berk
>     >>           On 2016-12-29 11:16, David van der Spoel wrote:
>     >>      > Hi,
>     >>      >
>     >>      > I am trying to find out if anyone uses the gmx energy
>     -dhdl code
>     >>      > pathway. The information is (typically?) read by gmx bar,
>     but gmx
>     >>      > energy has code to deal with this too. I could not find any
>     >> queries on
>     >>      > the mailing list, which suggests no one uses this.
>     >>      >
>     >>      > The reason I am asking is that in my energy file analysis
>     patch
>     >>      > https://gerrit.gromacs.org/#/c/4310/ I preserved the code but
>     >> there is
>     >>      > no testing yet. Alternative to throwing out the code would
>     be if
>     >>      > someone could provide/suggest a test set.
>     >>      >
>     >>      > Cheers,
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