[gmx-users] Excessive compute time using PME

[Jordi Camps]

Hello,

I have some news about the problem. Yesterday I saw that the input that I
was feeding was not completely contained in the octahedron, so I recentered
the travelling waters and now I have a true octahedron as input for mdrun.
If I chech the coordinates of the tpr file (extracted with editconf) I
continue seeing an octahedron in VMD.
But when I run the simulation with mdrun, it fails. And before core dumping,
mdrun writes two files: step-1.pdb and step0.pdb.
Step0.pdb shows an exploded molecule (and waters).
Step-1.pdb shows my input in cubic boundaries. I think that this is the
problem. I'm feeding an octahedron and mdrun is interpreting this like a
box. There are some special considerations I should take into account if I
want to simulate with an octahedron? Perhaps I'm missing some parameter in
the grompp.mdp file? The box vectors, like the ones that I have in the file,
are 6.72730 6.34256 5.49282 0.00000 0.00000 2.24243 0.00000 -2.24243
3.17128.

Thank you for yout help.

Sincerely,

-- 
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-----Mensaje original-----
De: gmx-users-bounces at gromacs.org [mailto:gmx-users-bounces at gromacs.org] En
nombre de Anton Feenstra
Enviado el: jueves, 19 de mayo de 2005 7:45
Para: Discussion list for GROMACS users
Asunto: Re: [gmx-users] Excessive compute time using PME


Jordi Camps wrote:

> Hello list!
> 
> Yes, you were right on the problem. I computed bad box vectors which 
> makes the box extra-large. Now I reduced the box to it's real size, 
> but now I get some kind of error. GXM writes an step-1.pdb and a 
> step0.pdb files (the second one shows that all the molecules exploded) 
> and core dumps. I'm working to find the cause.

Loook at your periodic boundaries. If you changed the box size, you may 
well have (bad) overlap at the 'edges'.


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton

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