[gmx-users] Methanol SOL :Number of solventmolecules = 0

Xavier Periole X.Periole at rug.nl
Wed Dec 12 15:04:03 CET 2007


Stop the minimization at 100 steps and then equilibrate. If the
problem persists check your topology.

XAvier
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> Dear Dr. Xavier Periole,
> Thank you for guiding me through. I could solve the problem of setting up 
>the system for minimization. However  When  started minimization run for 2000 
>steps with steepest descent , I encountered yet another problem. which is as 
>follows ..
> Methanol optimization:
> Started Steepest Descents on node 0 Tue Dec 11 17:48:57 2007
> Removing pbc first time
> Done rmpbc
> Steepest Descents:
>   Tolerance (Fmax)   =  1.00000e+01
>   Number of steps    =         2000
> Grid: 4 x 5 x 4 cells
> calc_bor: cg0=0, cg1=553, ncg=553
> CG0[0]=0, CG1[0]=553
> CG0[1]=0, CG1[1]=0
> calc_bor: cg0=0, cg1=553, ncg=553
> CG0[0]=0, CG1[0]=553
> CG0[1]=0, CG1[1]=0
> Configuring nonbonded kernels...
> Testing AMD 3DNow support... not present.
> Testing ia32 SSE support... present.
> Step           Time         Lambda
>              0        0.00000        0.00000
> calc_bor: cg0=0, cg1=553, ncg=553
> CG0[0]=0, CG1[0]=553
> CG0[1]=0, CG1[1]=0
> Program mdrun, VERSION 3.3
> Source code file: nsgrid.c, line: 226
> Range checking error:
> Explanation: During neighborsearching, we assign each particle to a grid
> based on its coordinates. If your system contains collisions or parameter
> errors that give particles very high velocities you might end up with some
> coordinates being +-Infinity or NaN (not-a-number). Obviously, we cannot
> put these on a grid, so this is usually where we detect those errors.
> Make sure your system is properly energy-minimized and that the potential
> energy seems reasonable before trying again.
> Variable ci has value -2147483648. It should have been within [ 0 .. 80 ]
> Please report this to the mailing list (gmx-users at gromacs.org)
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> Now where do I go from here? Its asking me to energy minimize the system 
>which is what I am trying to do ! What is this ci value and why is it so 
>high? Kindly help me I am once again stuck.  Furthermore, when I minimized 
> the same peptide in SPC216 water box of 1108 water molecules for 2000 steps 
>this error did not appear. When I compared the md.log files in both the cases 
>I found that in case of water optimization of SPC water was enabled where as 
>this line for methanol was missing which  should mean that the energies are 
>shooting off  scale is that right ? Should I optimize my system in vacuo 
>before simmulating in methanol? 
> Water optimization:
> {Generated table with 500 data points for 1-4 LJ12.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Enabling SPC water optimization for 1108 molecules.
> Initiating Steepest Descents
> Center of mass motion removal mode is Linear
> We have the following groups for center of mass motion removal:
>  0:  rest, initial mass: 3396
> Started Steepest Descents on node 0 Wed Dec 12 15:52:11 2007
> Removing pbc first time
> Done rmpbc
> Steepest Descents:
>   Tolerance (Fmax)   =  1.00000e+01
>   Number of steps    =         2000
> Going to use C-settle (1108 waters)
> wo = 0.333333, wh =0.333333, wohh = 3, rc = 0.08165, ra = 0.0384897
> rb = 0.0192449, rc2 = 0.1633, rone = 1, dHH = 0.1633, dOH = 0.1
> Grid: 4 x 5 x 4 cells}
> regards
> sharada
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> -- Original Message --
>From: "Xavier Periole" <X.Periole at rug.nl>
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:07:27 +0100
> Subject: Re: Fw:  Re: [gmx-users] Methanol SOL :Number of solvent molecules 
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> in your agg2t.top you should replace the last line :
> SOL    XXX
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> Methanol XXX
> which is the name of the molecule.
> You should also remove the angle definition in methanol.itp. Placing
> a ";" at the beginning of the line is enough.
> XAvier
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:40:04 +0530 (IST)
>  sharada  <sharada at ccmb.res.in> wrote:
>> Dear Mark Abraham,
>> I have changed MeoH to SOL in .gro and .itp files and also changed the 
>>#include line  to "methanol.itp"
>> It now seemed to have written the solvent molecules in the top file with SOL 
>>as the name with atom types of methanol. 
>> When I ran grompp program as following I get the error as shown below: I am 
>>also attaching the .gro,.itp,.top files. for information.  Did I miss out 
>>anything ? 
>> grompp -f em.mdp -c agg2_b4em.gro -p agg2.top -o agg2_em.tpr
>> [asd at ccmb Aggregates]$ grompp -f em.mdp -c agg2_b4em.gro -p agg2.top -o 
>>agg2_em.tpr
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>> Option   Type  Value  Description
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>       -[no]h   bool     no  Print help info and quit
>>       -[no]X   bool     no  Use dialog box GUI to edit command line options
>>        -nice    int      0  Set the nicelevel
>>       -[no]v   bool    yes  Be loud and noisy
>>        -time   real     -1  Take frame at or first after this time.
>>          -np    int      1  Generate statusfile for # nodes
>> -[no]shuffle   bool     no  Shuffle molecules over nodes
>>    -[no]sort   bool     no  Sort molecules according to X coordinate
>> creating statusfile for 1 node...
>> Back Off! I just backed up mdout.mdp to ./#mdout.mdp.7#
>> checking input for internal consistency...
>> calling /lib/cpp...
>> processing topology...
>> Generated 141 of the 1176 non-bonded parameter combinations
>> Excluding 3 bonded neighbours for Protein 1
>> Cleaning up temporary file grompp5RBSRX
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> Program grompp, VERSION 3.3
>> Source code file: toppush.c, line: 1264
>>Fatal error:
>> No such moleculetype SOL
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> I never prefer working in root as I know  the problems. Thanks for 
>> suggesting. I needed to change the methanol.itp and methanol216.gro which 
>>could be possible only through root. 
>> regards
>> sharada 
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> XAvier Periole - PhD
> NMR & Molecular Dynamics Group
> University of Groningen
> The Netherlands
> http://md.chem.rug.nl/~periole
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