[gmx-users] Energy conservation issue

[Nguyen Hoang Phuong]

setting dt=0.0002 ps should help.

Phuong

>
> Thanks, Berk.
>
> <snipped>
> > I would say that the LJ cut-off is the largest source of errors.
> > I don't know how DL_POLY handles this.
>
> I checked its code; it is a simple truncation (without smoothing
> whatsoever).
>
> > But setting
> > vdw-type = shift
> > rvdw = 0.85
>
> This gives an error saying it is shorter than rlist (=0.9), so I guess
> you meant rvdw-switch=0.85? -- I tried this. The energy conservation is
> a bit worse: drifting rate = 40 kJ/mol/ns vs previously 32 kJ/mol/ns.
>
> I would like to encourage you developers to double-check this to see if
> you can reproduce the energy drifting that I observed here.
>
>
> > should help a lot.
> >
> > BTW Why are you using such an old Gromacs version?
>
> That is the only one currently working with PME on my linux box.
>
> Yujie
>
>
> >
> > Berk.
> >
>
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