[gmx-users] Re: .xtc file is incomplete

[Justin A. Lemkul]

xianghong qi wrote:
> Hello, everyone:
> 
> when I run simulation, I got incomplete .xtc file, incomplete .trr file, 
> but I have a complete log file. Then I use this incomplete to create 
> input file for mdrun, I got the reasonable size of .tpr file.

I wouldn't trust that .tpr file to contain what you think it does (size doesn't 
matter), at least in terms of the starting time.  It will take the last frame as 
input, whatever it may be in the .trr file.

> I am confused what happed there. Does anyone has some idea about this?
> 

Probably a hardware blip caused the last frame(s) to not be written.  I've had 
that happen before.

> actually, when I rerun my simulation, I got the complete .xtc file . I 
> don't know why.
> 

Probably because the blip didn't happen again :)

-Justin

> Thanks.
> -Xianghong Qi
> 
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Justin A. Lemkul
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Virginia Tech
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