[gmx-users] LINCS error

Yongchul Chung yxc169 at case.edu
Thu Oct 8 20:11:46 CEST 2009


Hi guys,

As Justin pointed out, it was the problem with md simulation blowing up. I
also had coloumbtype=PME and had to switch to cut-off to make my simulation
run faster.

Thanks for all the help.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Jochen Hub <jochen at xray.bmc.uu.se> wrote:

>
>
>
>  delta_t              = 0.01
>
> You are using a 10 fs timestep!!! That is way too long. Standard is 2 (with
> bond constraints).
>
>
>
> Yongchul Chung wrote:
>
>> 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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-- 
Yongchul "Greg" Chung
Graduate Student
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
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