[gmx-users] "constraints:none" segmentation fault

[David van der Spoel]

On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 22:47, Giorgos Karvounis wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I want to simulate a b-hairpin in spc water in a NVE ensemble. I
> basically want to "reproduce" the simulation of beta-hairpin of
> Thermistat from the extended conformation at 360 K ( A. Bonvin et al.
> J.M.B (2000) 296,255-268).  I am using PME without any coupling
> (neither  T nor P). I run first a position restraints run , with T
> coupling on , then i turn it off for a md run. The problem is that the
> temperature is gradually cooling down... looking at the user's list, it
> seems that others faced the same problem and appartently a fisrt
> approach to this problem is to use FLEX_SPC and "constraints: none". My
> problem is that, when i use "constraints :none" in the .mdp file, after
> 50 steps , i get a segmentation fault and the run crashes.
> So basically, after having read many emails about PME and energy
> conservation, and still being quite confused about it, can you please
> summarise wich are the best parameters for this type of run and if you
> can tell me a possible reason for the segmentation fault?
> I am grateful for any advice.
> 
It is rather tricky to get good energy conservation, since PME is still
approximate (due to grid and cut-off in short range energy function),
besides that you still have a Vanderwaals cut-off and probably a number
of nstlist > 1 which affects energy conservation. If you use a twin
range cut-off it will be worse still. I don't think constraints are very
important though also are approximate. If you are lucky these errors
cancel out roughly, but this is not a real solution to the energy
conservation problem of course. 

If you do use T coupling with PME however, you can monitor the
temperature coupling constants lambda afterwards (they are stored in the
energy file) and check how much your system is disturbed by it.
Then redo the same simulation without PME and compare...




> Thank you in advance
> 
> Giorgos
> 
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Groeten, David.
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