[gmx-users] energy minimization

Dongsheng Zhang dong at pampas.chem.purdue.edu
Sat Jun 24 23:10:16 CEST 2006


Hi, David,

Thank you for your help. I have fix it now. Have a nice weekend!


Dongsheng

 On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 21:53 +0200, David van der Spoel wrote:
> Dongsheng Zhang wrote:
> > Hello, everyone,
> > 
> > I have a system with a nanotube and a polymer chain. First I did EM for
> > the system in vacuum. After that, I added some water to  my system, and
> > tried to do EM again. This time I got some large force on some atoms.
> > The messages are as folllows:
> > Step=    0, Dmax= 5.0e-03 nm, Epot= -4.89150e+06 Fmax= 6.50095e+04,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=    1, Dmax= 5.0e-03 nm, Epot= -4.91505e+06 Fmax= 3.30822e+04,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=    2, Dmax= 6.0e-03 nm, Epot= -4.96938e+06 Fmax= 1.72511e+04,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=    3, Dmax= 7.2e-03 nm, Epot= -5.09757e+06 Fmax= 1.02066e+04,
> > atom= 11109
> > Step=    4, Dmax= 8.6e-03 nm, Epot= -5.39186e+06 Fmax= 8.89407e+03,
> > atom= 11109
> > Step=    5, Dmax= 1.0e-02 nm, Epot= -5.92594e+06 Fmax= 1.27715e+04,
> > atom= 2464
> > Step=    6, Dmax= 1.2e-02 nm, Epot= -6.59458e+06 Fmax= 3.53621e+04,
> > atom= 10534
> > Step=    7, Dmax= 1.5e-02 nm, Epot= -7.04583e+06 Fmax= 9.01766e+05,
> > atom= 10534
> > Step=    8, Dmax= 1.8e-02 nm, Epot= -7.12198e+06 Fmax= 6.09737e+07,
> > atom= 2464
> > Step=   14, Dmax= 6.7e-04 nm, Epot= -7.17427e+06 Fmax= 2.34996e+08,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=   16, Dmax= 4.0e-04 nm, Epot= -7.20472e+06 Fmax= 3.88459e+08,
> > atom= 2464
> > Step=   18, Dmax= 2.4e-04 nm, Epot= -7.43615e+06 Fmax= 2.80954e+09,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=   21, Dmax= 7.3e-05 nm, Epot= -1.05082e+07 Fmax= 2.44979e+11,
> > atom= 2464
> > Step=   25, Dmax= 1.1e-05 nm, Epot= -1.33633e+07 Fmax= 8.20246e+11,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=   27, Dmax= 6.5e-06 nm, Epot= -1.60347e+07 Fmax= 1.66408e+12,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=   29, Dmax= 3.9e-06 nm, Epot= -2.73531e+07 Fmax= 8.51628e+12,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=   32, Dmax= 1.2e-06 nm, Epot= -3.69604e+08 Fmax= 2.72010e+15,
> > atom= 2463
> > Step=   33, Dmax= 1.4e-06 nm, Epot= -2.43314e+07 Fmax= 6.16803e+12,
> > atom= 2463
> > Stepsize too small, or no change in energy.
> > Converged to machine precision,
> > but not to the requested precision Fmax < 1000
> 
> topology is wrong. check atom 2463
> 
> > 
> > I believe something is wrong here. Could anyone give me a hand how to
> > fix it? Thank you very much!
> > 
> > Have a nice weekend!
> > 
> > Dongsheng
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