[gmx-users] Highest possible temperature in NPT?

[David van der Spoel]

chris.neale at utoronto.ca wrote:
> It is not immediately clear how one would implement REMD with NPT. In the
> simplest instance, your monte carlo test would be based on unscaled volumes
> (that would later scale) and including data from some time period X after a move
> would lead to a non-maxwellian distribution that was overly spread to other
> temperature umbrellas (worse, your lowest temperature would be unbalanced by the
> presence of only higher-temperature skewing data.)
This is a solved problem, see Chem Pys Lett 335 (2001) p 435.
This is is the algorithm that is implemented in GROMACS 3.3
> 
> Probably you need to scale volume at the same time that you scale temperature in
> your REMD system. This should solve your other problems.
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