[gmx-users] Different temperatures for different groups, even with Nose-Hoover

XAvier Periole x.periole at rug.nl
Fri Oct 30 08:28:19 CET 2009


The comment from Justin and your answer to it were pretty convincing.
I think the problem is solved :)).

Tom is correct to get T with g_energy on a simulation that ran with one
Tcoup, you need to rerun the trajectory (trr) with a tpr in which you
define two Tcoup. This should give you T for each group.

XAvier.


On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Michael Lerner wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM, XAvier Periole <x.periole at rug.nl>  
> wrote:
>
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Michael Lerner wrote:
>
>
> I calculated temperatures with
>
> g_traj -f md2.trr -s md2.tpr -n index.ndx -ot -ng 5
> I did not know you could get the temperature throught g_traj ... the  
> -ot option is the one
> giving you the temperature?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Do you get the same temperature difference with g_energy? Or may be  
> the info is not
> in there? May be you could rerun you trajectory using a new tpr  
> where you define two
> different temp coupling groups. And see if you observe the same  
> temperature given by
> g_energy.
>
> It's possible that I'm doing something wrong, but I couldn't  
> convince g_energy to give me the temperature of different groups  
> when I used a single thermostat for the entire system. If I use two  
> temperature coupling groups, I get the expected results.
>
> As Justin pointed out, it looks like the error was mine for not  
> understanding the details of g_traj. When I manually correct for the  
> degrees of freedom, I get temperatures for Protein/Sol that are  
> close enough to each other (i.e. within a couple of standard  
> deviations).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Michael
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Michael
>
> ------ begin md2.mdp ------
>
> ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS =
> integrator               = md
> ; start time and timestep in ps =
> tinit                    = 0.0
> dt                       = 0.020
> nsteps                   = 25500000
> ; mode for center of mass motion removal
> comm-mode                = linear
> ; number of steps for center of mass motion removal
> nstcomm                  = 1
> ; group(s) for center of mass motion removal
> comm-grps                = System
>
>
> ; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS =
> ; Output frequency for coords (x), velocities (v) and forces (f) =
> nstxout                  = 50000
> nstvout                  = 50000
> nstfout                  = 0
> ; Output frequency for energies to log file and energy file =
> nstlog                   = 2500
> nstenergy                = 2500
> ; Output frequency and precision for xtc file =
> nstxtcout                = 2500
> xtc_precision            = 100
> ; This selects the subset of atoms for the xtc file. You can =
> ; select multiple groups. By default all atoms will be written. =
> xtc-grps                 =
> ; Selection of energy groups =
> energygrps               = System Protein W WF
>
> ; NEIGHBORSEARCHING PARAMETERS =
> ; nblist update frequency =
> nstlist                  = 5
> ; ns algorithm (simple or grid) =
> ns_type                  = grid
> ; Periodic boundary conditions: xyz or none =
> pbc                      = xyz
> ; nblist cut-off         =
> rlist                    = 1.2
>
> ; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW =
> ; Method for doing electrostatics =
> coulombtype              = Shift
> rcoulomb_switch          = 0.0
> rcoulomb                 = 1.2
> ; Dielectric constant (DC) for cut-off or DC of reaction field =
> epsilon_r                = 15
> ; Method for doing Van der Waals =
> vdw_type                 = Shift
> ; cut-off lengths        =
> rvdw_switch              = 0.9
> rvdw                     = 1.2
> ; Apply long range dispersion corrections for Energy and Pressure =
> DispCorr                 = No
> ; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid =
> fourierspacing           = 0.12
> ; FFT grid size, when a value is 0 fourierspacing will be used =
> fourier_nx               = 10
> fourier_ny               = 10
> fourier_nz               = 10
> ; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters =
> pme_order                = 4
> ewald_rtol               = 1e-05
> epsilon_surface          = 0
> optimize_fft             = no
>
> ; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS =
> ; Temperature coupling   =
> tcoupl                   = Nose-Hoover
> ; Groups to couple separately =
> tc-grps                  = System
> ; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K) =
> tau_t                    = 2
> ref_t                    = 323
> ; Pressure coupling      =
> Pcoupl                   = Parrinello-Rahman
> Pcoupltype               = isotropic
> ; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar) =
> tau_p                    = 5
> compressibility          = 5e-5
> ref_p                    = 1.0
>
> ; SIMULATED ANNEALING CONTROL =
> annealing                = no
>
> ; GENERATE VELOCITIES FOR STARTUP RUN =
> continuation      = yes
> gen_vel                  = no
> ;gen_temp                 = 323
> ;gen_seed                 = 473529
>
> ; OPTIONS FOR BONDS     =
> constraints              = none
> ; Type of constraint algorithm =
> constraint_algorithm     = Lincs
> ; Relative tolerance of shake =
> shake_tol                = 0.0001
> ; Highest order in the expansion of the constraint coupling matrix =
> lincs_order              = 4
> ; Lincs will write a warning to the stderr if in one step a bond =
> ; rotates over more degrees than =
> lincs_warnangle          = 30
> ; Convert harmonic bonds to morse potentials =
> morse                    = no
>
> ; NMR refinement stuff  =
> ; Distance restraints type: No, Simple or Ensemble =
> disre                    = No
> ; Force weighting of pairs in one distance restraint: Equal or  
> Conservative =
> disre_weighting          = Equal
> ; Use sqrt of the time averaged times the instantaneous violation =
> disre_mixed              = no
> disre_fc                 = 1000
> disre_tau                = 1.25
> ; Output frequency for pair distances to energy file =
> nstdisreout              = 100
> ------- end md2.mdp -------
>
>
>
> -- 
> Michael Lerner, Ph.D.
> IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow
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