[gmx-users] g_covar for many large runs

[David]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:53 -0700, Sichun Yang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have generated around 1,000 large runs, and each run has about 1GB
> output. How can I avoid using trjcat to generate one 'HUGE' file in order
> to get g_covar done?
That would be a 1 Tb file. Interesting.

You'll have to modify g_covar such that it can read multiple files
sequentially and process them. Check trjcat for the multi-file reading
code. I'm afraid it will take a long time. An alternative would be to
modify g_covar to write out the covariance matrix before diagonalizing,
then write a program to read all the 1000 covariance matrices and sum
them.

It would be very nice if reading many files could be done automatically
because it would make the whole trjcat business superfluous... All the
logic is there, it just has to be combined into a library function.

-- 
David.
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