[gmx-users] weird nst*out problem

[David van der Spoel]

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:59, Bert de Groot wrote:
> David wrote:
   3000000.00000
>   3000000.25000
>   3000000.50000
>   3000000.50000
>   3000000.75000
>   3000001.00000
>   3000001.25000
>   3000001.50000
>   3000001.50000
> 
> (note that if you write out less frequently, like most users would do,
> the problem starts much later)
> 
> 
> If we want to prevent this, would it suffice to use a double for the
> time variable in mdrun in our local gromacs version, or would it be better 
> to completely switch to double precision?
That seems to be a bit overkill. For trr files you can use a double
precision version to renumber the times in the trr file (trjconv -t0
etc.). You can also use separate files (which you probably have already
when you have trajectory files that long) and set the starting time to
zero for each of them, and keep track of the real time otherwise.

In your local version you can write the time in double in the xtc file,
but for compatibility I wouldn't like that in the standard format. 

-- 
Groeten, David.
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