[gmx-users] file too big?

[David]

On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 20:28, K.A. Feenstra wrote:
> SANTINI sebastien wrote:
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > i have a 3Go file.trr
> 
> Write .xtc files and/or leave out solvent, and/or leave out velocities
> and/or forces, and/or write less often, and/or split your simulation into
> smaller parts.
> 
> Unless you have very specific things you want to look at you *never* need:
> * more than 1 frame/ps;
> * solvent;
> * full-precision coordinates;
> * velocities;
> * forces.

Not everyone is simulating proteins in water... For many things you do
need to save more often. Even for proteins, if you'd want to study order
parameters, you need to save like every 100 fs.

-- 
Groeten, David.
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