[gmx-users] pme problems in gromacs 3.3

David spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Fri Nov 11 21:12:51 CET 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:53 -0500, hseara at netscape.net wrote:
> Thanks David,
>  
> Now everything seems to work. But why with order 6 was working in
> 3.2.1 and not now? can you give me a reference where I can learn more
> about what all pme parameter mean? and how to set up them?.

Documentation in the papers.

I seem to recall that a bug was introduced for pme_order != 4 in the 3.3
release, that was fixed recently. What is the problem you are seeing?
Maybe you can file a bugzilla for this and upload a 3.2.1 tpr file that
reproduces the problem. 



>  
> Thank you, Hector
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> Sent: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:21:50 +0100
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] pme problems in gromacs 3.3
> 
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:07 -0500, hseara at netscape.net wrote:
> >   Dear everyone,
> > 
> > I'm trying to perform a bilayer simulation with the new gromacs 3.3 
> > that works fine with the older version 3.2.1. The problem as far as I 
> > know is related to something around "pme". When I turn it off and use 
> > cut-off every think works fine. Here is my dun.mdp file when I turn pme 
> > on in gromacs 3.3. The same system in gromacs 3.2.1 with this pme file 
> > works perfectly. Any help will be apreciated.
> 
> 
> try pme_order = 4
> 
> 
> > 
> >  ;
> > ;   File 'mdout.mdp' was generated
> > ;   By user: hector (500)
> > ;   On host: hectorp
> > ;   At date: Tue Nov  8 22:26:19 2005
> > ;
> > 
> > ; VARIOUS PREPROCESSING OPTIONS
> > title                    = MD run on DOPS
> > ; Preprocessor - specify a full path if necessary.
> > cpp                      = /usr/bin/cpp
> > include                  =
> > define                   =
> > 
> > ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS
> > integrator               = md
> > ; Start time and timestep in ps
> > tinit                    = 0
> > dt                       = 0.001
> > nsteps                   = 20000
> > ; For exact run continuation or redoing part of a run
> > init_step                = 0
> > ; mode for center of mass motion removal
> > comm-mode                = Linear
> > ; number of steps for center of mass motion removal
> > nstcomm                  = 1
> > ; group(s) for center of mass motion removal
> > comm-grps                =
> > 
> > ; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS OPTIONS
> > ; Friction coefficient (amu/ps) and random seed
> > bd-fric                  = 0
> > ld-seed                  = 1993
> > 
> > ; ENERGY MINIMIZATION OPTIONS
> > ; Force tolerance and initial step-size
> > emtol                    = 50
> > emstep                   = 0.05
> > ; Max number of iterations in relax_shells
> > niter                    = 0
> > ; Step size (ps^2) for minimization of flexible constraints
> > fcstep                   = 0
> > ; Frequency of steepest descents steps when doing CG
> > nstcgsteep               = 15000
> > nbfgscorr                = 10
> > 
> > ; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS
> > ; Output frequency for coords (x), velocities (v) and forces (f)
> > nstxout                  = 500
> > nstvout                  = 500
> > nstfout                  = 0
> > ; Checkpointing helps you continue after crashes
> > nstcheckpoint            = 1000
> > ; Output frequency for energies to log file and energy file
> > nstlog                   = 500
> > nstenergy                = 500
> > ; Output frequency and precision for xtc file
> > nstxtcout                = 0
> > xtc-precision            = 1000
> > ; This selects the subset of atoms for the xtc file. You can
> > ; select multiple groups. By default all atoms will be written.
> > xtc-grps                 =
> > ; Selection of energy groups
> > energygrps               =
> > 
> > ; NEIGHBORSEARCHING PARAMETERS
> > ; nblist update frequency
> > nstlist                  = 3
> > ; ns algorithm (simple or grid)
> > ns_type                  = grid
> > ; Periodic boundary conditions: xyz (default), no (vacuum)
> > ; or full (infinite systems only)
> > pbc                      = xyz
> > ; nblist cut-off
> > rlist                    = 0.95
> > domain-decomposition     = no
> > 
> > ; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW
> > ; Method for doing electrostatics
> > coulombtype              = pme
> > rcoulomb-switch          = 0
> > rcoulomb                 = 0.95
> > ; Relative dielectric constant for the medium and the reaction field
> > epsilon-r                = 1
> > epsilon_rf               = 1
> > ; Method for doing Van der Waals
> > vdw-type                 = Cut-off
> > ; cut-off lengths
> > rvdw-switch              = 0
> > rvdw                     = 1.8
> > ; Apply long range dispersion corrections for Energy and Pressure
> > DispCorr                 = EnerPres
> > ; Extension of the potential lookup tables beyond the cut-off
> > table-extension          = 1
> > ; Seperate tables between energy group pairs
> > energygrp_table          =
> > ; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid
> > fourierspacing           = 0.12
> > ; FFT grid size, when a value is 0 fourierspacing will be used
> > fourier_nx               = 0
> > fourier_ny               = 0
> > fourier_nz               = 0
> > ; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters
> > pme_order                = 6
> > ewald_rtol               = 1e-05
> > ewald_geometry           = 3d
> > epsilon_surface          = 0
> > optimize_fft             = no
> > 
> > ; GENERALIZED BORN ELECTROSTATICS
> > ; Algorithm for calculating Born radii
> > gb_algorithm             = Still
> > ; Frequency of calculating the Born radii inside rlist
> > nstgbradii               = 1
> > ; Cutoff for Born radii calculation; the contribution from atoms
> > ; between rlist and rgbradii is updated every nstlist steps
> > rgbradii                 = 2
> > ; Salt concentration in M for Generalized Born models
> > gb_saltconc              = 0
> > 
> > ; IMPLICIT SOLVENT (for use with Generalized Born electrostatics)
> > implicit_solvent         = No
> > 
> > ; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS
> > ; Temperature coupling
> > Tcoupl                   = nose-hoover
> > ; Groups to couple separately
> > tc-grps                  = DOPS     DOPA     SOL  NA+
> > ; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K)
> > tau-t                    = 0.2      0.2      0.2  0.2
> > ref-t                    = 303.0    303.0  303.0  303.0
> > ; Pressure coupling
> > Pcoupl              =  Parrinello-Rahman
> > Pcoupltype          =  semiisotropic
> > ; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar)
> > tau_p               =  1.0 1.0
> > compressibility     =  4.5e-5 4.5e-5
> > ref_p               =  1.01325 1.01325
> > ; Random seed for Andersen thermostat
> > andersen_seed            = 815131
> > 
> > ; OPTIONS FOR QMMM calculations
> > QMMM                     = no
> > ; Groups treated Quantum Mechanically
> > QMMM-grps                =
> > ; QM method
> > QMmethod                 =
> > ; QMMM scheme
> > QMMMscheme               = normal
> > ; QM basisset
> > QMbasis                  =
> > ; QM charge
> > QMcharge                 =
> > ; QM multiplicity
> > QMmult                   =
> > ; Surface Hopping
> > SH                       =
> > ; CAS space options
> > CASorbitals              =
> > CASelectrons             =
> > SAon                     =
> > SAoff                    =
> > SAsteps                  =
> > ; Scale factor for MM charges
> > MMChargeScaleFactor      = 1
> > ; Optimization of QM subsystem
> > bOPT                     =
> > bTS                      =
> > 
> > ; SIMULATED ANNEALING
> > ; Type of annealing for each temperature group (no/single/periodic)
> > annealing                = no
> > ; Number of time points to use for specifying annealing in each group
> > annealing_npoints        =
> > ; List of times at the annealing points for each group
> > annealing_time           =
> > ; Temp. at each annealing point, for each group.
> > annealing_temp           =
> > 
> > ; GENERATE VELOCITIES FOR STARTUP RUN
> > gen_vel                  = no
> > gen-temp                 = 300
> > gen-seed                 = 533671
> > 
> > ; OPTIONS FOR BONDS
> > constraints              = all-bonds
> > ; Type of constraint algorithm
> > constraint-algorithm     = LINCS
> > ; Do not constrain the start configuration
> > unconstrained-start      = yes
> > ; Use successive overrelaxation to reduce the number of shake iterations
> > Shake-SOR                = no
> > ; Relative tolerance of shake
> > shake-tol                = 0.0001
> > ; Highest order in the expansion of the constraint coupling matrix
> > lincs-order              = 4
> > ; Number of iterations in the final step of LINCS. 1 is fine for
> > ; normal simulations, but use 2 to conserve energy in NVE runs.
> > ; For energy minimization with constraints it should be 4 to 8.
> > lincs-iter               = 1
> > ; Lincs will write a warning to the stderr if in one step a bond
> > ; rotates over more degrees than
> > lincs-warnangle          = 90
> > ; Convert harmonic bonds to morse potentials
> > morse                    = no
> > 
> > ; ENERGY GROUP EXCLUSIONS
> > ; Pairs of energy groups for which all non-bonded interactions are 
> > excluded
> > energygrp_excl           =
> > 
> > ; NMR refinement stuff
> > ; Distance restraints type: No, Simple or Ensemble
> > disre                    = No
> > ; Force weighting of pairs in one distance restraint: Conservative or 
> > Equal
> > disre-weighting          = Conservative
> > ; Use sqrt of the time averaged times the instantaneous violation
> > disre-mixed              = no
> > disre-fc                 = 1000
> > disre-tau                = 0
> > ; Output frequency for pair distances to energy file
> > nstdisreout              = 100
> > ; Orientation restraints: No or Yes
> > orire                    = no
> > ; Orientation restraints force constant and tau for time averaging
> > orire-fc                 = 0
> > orire-tau                = 0
> > orire-fitgrp             =
> > ; Output frequency for trace(SD) and S to energy file
> > nstorireout              = 100
> > ; Dihedral angle restraints: No, Simple or Ensemble
> > dihre                    = No
> > dihre-fc                 = 1000
> > dihre-tau                = 0
> > ; Output frequency for dihedral values to energy file
> > nstdihreout              = 100
> > 
> > ; Free energy control stuff
> > free-energy              = no
> > init-lambda              = 0
> > delta-lambda             = 0
> > sc-alpha                 = 0
> > sc-power                 = 1
> > sc-sigma                 = 0.3
> > 
> > ; Non-equilibrium MD stuff
> > acc-grps                 =
> > accelerate               =
> > freezegrps               =
> > freezedim                =
> > cos-acceleration         = 0
> > deform                   =
> > 
> > ; Electric fields
> > ; Format is number of terms (int) and for all terms an amplitude (real)
> > ; and a phase angle (real)
> > E-x                      =
> > E-xt                     =
> > E-y                      =
> > E-yt                     =
> > E-z                      =
> > E-zt                     =
> > 
> > ; User defined thingies
> > user1-grps               =
> > user2-grps               =
> > userint1                 = 0
> > userint2                 = 0
> > userint3                 = 0
> > userint4                 = 0
> > userreal1                = 0
> > userreal2                = 0
> > userreal3                = 0
> > userreal4                = 0
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