[gmx-users] T-coupling ...
Senthil Kandasamy
senthilk at engin.umich.edu
Fri Jul 25 15:01:02 CEST 2003
Hi all,
I had posted an earlier message about the strange T-coupling behavior.
After analyzing the energy files, I realize that the culprit is water.
Eventhough the lipid, protein and water are independently coupled at
310K, the water for some reason seems to heat up to ~650K. Thus, the
system temperature fluctuates at about ~650 K or so. This was using a
tau-t of 0.1ps and berendsen coupling. Then I played around with
different coupling constants and these are the results
Run Tcoupl Ref-t Tau-t T-water RMSD T-System RMSD
1 Berendsen 310 0.1 785 79 668 60
2 Berendsen 310 0.01 348 6.2 338 4.6
3 Berendsen 310 0.005 329 3.83 324 2.87
4 nose-hoover 310 0.005 310 15 310 11
All these systems had a gen_vel =yes at 310K.
They are all averages over atleast 300ps (300 frames)
The nose-hoover seems to work alright, but still the magnitude of the
fluctuations bother me.
Now, coming back to the possible reasons for this weird error. Now that
I think about it, the gromacs on this machine was compiled using pgcc.
Could that make a real difference? I think during compilation, there
were some warnings, but I ignored them. Could some subroutines be badly
compiled and thus lead to the weird behavior?
Any input will be greatly appreciated. I am currently working with the
system administrators to get gromacs compiled with gcc to see if it
would make any difference.
Senthil
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