[gmx-users] LINCS error

Yongchul Chung yxc169 at case.edu
Thu Oct 8 16:22:32 CEST 2009


Hi all,

I am trying to simulate 100 molecules of n-alkane molecules but keep
receiving LINC errors.
When I completed steepest descent I received following msg:

Steepest Descents converged to Fmax < 500 in 819 steps
Potential Energy  =  1.7174361e+05
Maximum force     =  4.4903098e+02 on atom 172
Norm of force     =  3.0003010e+01

Then I performed mdrun with the output of this file and gets LINCS warning:


Input Parameters:
   integrator           = md
   nsteps               = 8000
   init_step            = 0
   ns_type              = Grid
   nstlist              = 10
   ndelta               = 2
   nstcomm              = 1
   comm_mode            = Linear
   nstlog               = 10
   nstxout              = 250
   nstvout              = 1000
   nstfout              = 0
   nstenergy            = 10
   nstxtcout            = 0
   init_t               = 0
   delta_t              = 0.01
   xtcprec              = 1000
   nkx                  = 125
   nky                  = 125
   nkz                  = 125
   pme_order            = 4
   ewald_rtol           = 1e-05
   ewald_geometry       = 0
   epsilon_surface      = 0
   optimize_fft         = TRUE
   ePBC                 = xyz
   bPeriodicMols        = FALSE
   bContinuation        = FALSE
   bShakeSOR            = FALSE
   etc                  = V-rescale
   epc                  = No
   epctype              = Isotropic
   tau_p                = 1
   ref_p (3x3):
      ref_p[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      ref_p[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      ref_p[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
   compress (3x3):
      compress[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      compress[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      compress[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
   refcoord_scaling     = No
   posres_com (3):
      posres_com[0]= 0.00000e+00
      posres_com[1]= 0.00000e+00
      posres_com[2]= 0.00000e+00
   posres_comB (3):
      posres_comB[0]= 0.00000e+00
      posres_comB[1]= 0.00000e+00
      posres_comB[2]= 0.00000e+00
   andersen_seed        = 815131
   rlist                = 1
   rtpi                 = 0.05
   coulombtype          = PME
   rcoulomb_switch      = 0
   rcoulomb             = 1
   vdwtype              = Cut-off
   rvdw_switch          = 0
   rvdw                 = 2
   epsilon_r            = 1
   epsilon_rf           = 1
   tabext               = 1
   implicit_solvent     = No
   gb_algorithm         = Still
   gb_epsilon_solvent   = 80
   nstgbradii           = 1
   rgbradii             = 2
   gb_saltconc          = 0
   gb_obc_alpha         = 1
   gb_obc_beta          = 0.8
   gb_obc_gamma         = 4.85
   sa_surface_tension   = 2.092
   DispCorr             = No
   free_energy          = no
   init_lambda          = 0
   sc_alpha             = 0
   sc_power             = 0
   sc_sigma             = 0.3
   delta_lambda         = 0
   nwall                = 0
   wall_type            = 9-3
   wall_atomtype[0]     = -1
   wall_atomtype[1]     = -1
   wall_density[0]      = 0
   wall_density[1]      = 0
   wall_ewald_zfac      = 3
   pull                 = no
   disre                = No
   disre_weighting      = Conservative
   disre_mixed          = FALSE
   dr_fc                = 1000
   dr_tau               = 0
   nstdisreout          = 100
   orires_fc            = 0
   orires_tau           = 0
   nstorireout          = 100
   dihre-fc             = 1000
   em_stepsize          = 0.01
   em_tol               = 10
   niter                = 20
   fc_stepsize          = 0
   nstcgsteep           = 1000
   nbfgscorr            = 10
   ConstAlg             = Lincs
   shake_tol            = 0.0001
   lincs_order          = 4
   lincs_warnangle      = 30
   lincs_iter           = 1
   bd_fric              = 0
   ld_seed              = 1993
   cos_accel            = 0
   deform (3x3):
      deform[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      deform[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      deform[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
   userint1             = 0
   userint2             = 0
   userint3             = 0
   userint4             = 0
   userreal1            = 0
   userreal2            = 0
   userreal3            = 0
   userreal4            = 0
grpopts:
   nrdf:       11297
   ref_t:         300
   tau_t:         0.1
anneal:          No
ann_npoints:           0
   acc:               0           0           0
   nfreeze:           N           N           N
   energygrp_flags[  0]: 0
   efield-x:
      n = 0
   efield-xt:
      n = 0
   efield-y:
      n = 0
   efield-yt:
      n = 0
   efield-z:
      n = 0
   efield-zt:
      n = 0
   bQMMM                = FALSE
   QMconstraints        = 0
   QMMMscheme           = 0
   scalefactor          = 1
qm_opts:
   ngQM                 = 0
Table routines are used for coulomb: TRUE
Table routines are used for vdw:     FALSE
Will do PME sum in reciprocal space.

++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
U. Essman, L. Perela, M. L. Berkowitz, T. Darden, H. Lee and L. G. Pedersen
A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
J. Chem. Phys. 103 (1995) pp. 8577-8592
-------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------

Using a Gaussian width (1/beta) of 0.320163 nm for Ewald
Cut-off's:   NS: 1   Coulomb: 1   LJ: 2
System total charge: -0.000
Generated table with 1500 data points for Ewald.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1500 data points for LJ6.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1500 data points for LJ12.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Configuring nonbonded kernels...
Testing AMD 3DNow support... not present.
Testing ia32 SSE support... present.


Removing pbc first time

Initializing LINear Constraint Solver

++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
B. Hess and H. Bekker and H. J. C. Berendsen and J. G. E. M. Fraaije
LINCS: A Linear Constraint Solver for molecular simulations
J. Comp. Chem. 18 (1997) pp. 1463-1472
-------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------

The number of constraints is 5500
Center of mass motion removal mode is Linear
We have the following groups for center of mass motion removal:
  0:  rest

++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
G. Bussi, D. Donadio and M. Parrinello
Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling
J. Chem. Phys. 126 (2007) pp. 014101
-------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------

There are: 5600 Atoms
Max number of connections per atom is 4
Total number of connections is 11000
Max number of graph edges per atom is 4
Total number of graph edges is 11000

Constraining the starting coordinates (step 0)

Constraining the coordinates at t0-dt (step 0)
RMS relative constraint deviation after constraining: 6.33e-04
Initial temperature: 306.393 K

Started mdrun on node 0 Thu Oct  8 09:58:49 2009

           Step           Time         Lambda
              0        0.00000        0.00000

Grid: 25 x 25 x 25 cells

-------------------------------------------------------
Program mdrun, VERSION 4.0.2
Source code file: constr.c, line: 136

Fatal error:
Too many LINCS warnings (3821)
If you know what you are doing you can adjust the lincs warning threshold in
your mdp file
or set the environment variable GMX_MAXCONSTRWARN to -1,
but normally it is better to fix the problem
-------------------------------------------------------

Can anyone help me to navigate this issue?
Thanks
-- 
Yongchul "Greg" Chung
Graduate Student
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
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