[gmx-users] [Fwd: gen_seed GROMACS]

[David van der Spoel]

David van der Spoel wrote:
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: gen_seed GROMACS
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:36:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Fenghui Fan <fenghui_fan at yahoo.com>
> To: spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
> 
> Will you please give me an explaination on gen_seed?
> How can we decide its value? How does it influence the
> final resuts? What is getpid?
> 
> I am looking forward to getting your reply.
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Fenghui Fan
> 
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It's a random number seed. You will get different velocities with a 
different seed. That's all.
try:
man getpid

-- 
David.
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David van der Spoel, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Molecular Biophysics group,
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University.
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