[gmx-users]Simulated annealing

Jochen Hub jhub at gwdg.de
Mon Oct 27 08:45:47 CET 2008


JMandumpal wrote:
>   
> Dear GROMACS users,
> 
> I have got a problem while running a simulated anealing simulations, using GROMACS 3.3.3 version, of pure water:
> 
> the task:
> 
> I want to cool the system (water- 500 molecules) from 360 K to 0K in 100ps time ( fast cooling). For that I used the following script:
> 
> title                    = Water annealing simulation
> cpp                      = /usr/bin/cpp
> ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS
> integrator               = md
> ; Start time and timestep in ps
> dt                       = 0.001; 1fs
> nsteps                   = 100000  ; 1ps
> ; For exact run continuation or redoing part of a run
> init_step                  = 0
> ; number of steps for center of mass motion removal
> nstcomm                  = 1
> ; group(s) for center of mass motion removal
> comm-grps                = SOL
> ; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS
> ; Output frequency for coords (x), velocities (v) and forces (f)
> nstxout                  = 10000 ; 10ps
> nstvout                  = 10000 ; 10ps
> nstfout                  = 0
> ; Checkpointing helps you continue after crashes
> nstcheckpoint            = 100
> ; Output frequency for energies to log file and energy file
> nstlog                   = 0
> nstenergy                = 1000 ; 1ps
> ; Output frequency and precision for xtc file
> ;nstxtcout                = 0
> ;xtc-precision            = 1000
> ; select multiple groups. By default all atoms will be written.
> ; NEIGHBORSEARCHING PARAMETERS
> nstlist                  = 10
> ; ns algorithm (simple or grid)
> ns_type                  = grid
> ; Periodic boundary conditions:
> pbc                      = xyz
> ; nblist cut-off
> rlist                    = 1.0
> ; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW
> ; Method for doing electrostatics
> coulombtype              = pme
> rcoulomb                 = 1.0
> ewald_rtol               = 1.0e-5  ; since erfc(sigma*rcutoff)=ewald_rtol
> optimize_fft             = yes
> ; Relative dielectric constant for the medium
> epsilon_r                = 1  ; for water
> ; Method for doing Van der Waals
> vdw-type                 = cut-off
> rvdw                     = 1.0
> ; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid
> fourierspacing           = 0.12 ; check for the range 0.1 to 0.15
> ; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters
> pme_order                = 4
> ewald_geometry           = 3d
> epsilon_surface          = 0
> ; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS
> ; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS
> ; Temperature coupling
> ;Tcoupl                   = berendsen
> ; Groups to couple separately
> ;tc-grps                  = system
> ; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K)
> ;tau-t                     = 0.1
> ;ref-t                    = 360
> ; simulated anealing
> annealing                = single
> annealing_npoints        = 2
> annealing_time           = 0   0
                            ^^^^^^^

I think this should be

annealing_time = 0 100

in your case, right?

Jochen

> annealing_temp           = 360 0
> ; GENERATE VELOCITIES FOR STARTUP RUN
> gen_vel                  = yes
> gen-temp                 = 360
> gen-seed                 = 173529
> ; OPTIONS FOR BONDS
> constraints              = all-bonds
> constraint_algorithm     = shake
> shake_tol                = 0.0001
> morse                    = no
>                                                                                                                                                               -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Problem:
> 
> Having done the simulations, the output shows ( ener.edr , Temperature)  a high temperature value around 850K. Clearly I did something wrong in my parameter file. 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> the temperature extracted after the simulations
> -------------------------------------------------------
> s0 legend "Temperature"
>     0.000000  376.058044
>     1.000000  864.033020
>     2.000000  873.607605
>     3.000000  851.308838
>     4.000000  847.223877
>     5.000000  860.511841
>     6.000000  813.547241
>     7.000000  845.261658
>     8.000000  872.090027
>     9.000000  852.079468
>    10.000000  849.152466
>    11.000001  850.055237
>    12.000001  834.468323
>    13.000001  861.107300
>    14.000001  828.380493
>    15.000001  850.166809
>    16.000000  850.382019
>    17.000000  847.214478
>    18.000000  851.201538
>    19.000000  857.533691
>    20.000000  849.760071
>    21.000002  864.907715
>    22.000002  837.307495
>    23.000002  827.407593
>    24.000002  841.464111
>    25.000002  863.330688
>    26.000002  841.096069
>    27.000002  856.469910
>    28.000002  854.449768
>    29.000002  845.534973
>    30.000002  853.421448
>    31.000002  825.198059
>    32.000000  857.317566
>    33.000000  823.510925
>                                                                                                                                             34.000000  858.875122
>    35.000000  880.710266
>    36.000000  853.692749
>    37.000000  847.079468
>    38.000000  851.004822
>    39.000000  858.750000
>    40.000000  872.787048
>    41.000004  843.033813
>    42.000004  874.984009
>    43.000004  845.272583
>    44.000004  822.993713
>    45.000004  863.116455
>    46.000004  865.640198
>    47.000004  873.489563
>    48.000004  849.170776
>    49.000004  861.631958
>    50.000004  860.999939
>    51.000004  834.341003
>    52.000004  864.601196
>    53.000004  838.268372
>    54.000004  842.860046
>    55.000004  837.590332
>    56.000004  855.985046
>    57.000004  836.168030
>    58.000004  862.147644
>    59.000004  869.183044
>    60.000004  873.057556
>    61.000004  871.051636
>    62.000004  857.647217
>    63.000004  857.834106
>    64.000000  871.380981
>    65.000000  850.045654
>    66.000000  880.142456
>    67.000000  844.183350
>    68.000000  850.980042
>    69.000000  854.431091
>    70.000000  847.898743
>    71.000000  859.750488
>    72.000000  852.219910
>    73.000000  854.833984
>    74.000000  851.676514
>    75.000000  866.519287
>    76.000000  861.120605
>    77.000000  857.873230
>    78.000000  845.287720
>    79.000000  874.603333
>    80.000000  854.244751
>    81.000008  864.049561
>    82.000008  892.515991
>    83.000008  855.164734
>    84.000008  867.054077
>    85.000008  862.560059
>    86.000008  829.368469
>                                                                                                                                                87.000008  864.729553
>    88.000008  882.954102
>    89.000008  865.048401
>    90.000008  864.581848
>    91.000008  870.596619
>    92.000008  856.474976
>    93.000008  861.473450
>    94.000008  838.902344
>    95.000008  896.907715
>    96.000008  865.042480
>    97.000008  877.761292
>    98.000008  877.356750
>    99.000008  855.421753
>   100.000008  863.720398
>                                                                                                                                             ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Could anyone tell me what changes I should make in the parameter file?
> 
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> Jes.
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