[gmx-users] Problem in the gromacs git version

Fabrizio Marinelli marinell at sissa.it
Fri Apr 30 11:40:58 CEST 2010


Hi Mark, can you send me your .mdp file to compare with mine?
Fabrizio

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fabrizio Marinelli <marinell at sissa.it>
> Date: Friday, April 30, 2010 19:17
> Subject: [gmx-users] Problem in the gromacs git version
> To: jalemkul at vt.edu, Discussion list for GROMACS users
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>> Hi all,
>> i have downloaded and installed the latest gromacs git version
>> with the
>> purpose of testing the charmm force field. I noticed that with
>> pdb2gmx i
>> am able to construct the topology without problems and also to
>> run the
>> simulation. Then when i look to the energy terms i notice that SR
>> interaction are 0 and this of course generate problems to the
>> simulationeven if it does not crush. I also tried with the
>> GROMOS96 43a1 force field
>> and it gives the same. I also tried to remove the protein and
>> run only
>> water molecules and still SR are 0. I tried also to run the
>> simulation of
>> spc216.gro water box, and it still gives the same.
>> Does any one of you faced with the same problem? If not, could
>> some you
>> try the same test to see if you find the same? Could some of you
>> eventually propose a solution?
>
> I was using git master this week without observing such a problem.
>
> Two approaches to a solution occur to me. Either vary your .mdp entries
> until it works, which can identify the broken algorithm, or, use git to go
> back in time until you find a point where the simulation works. Then the
> erroneous commit, if any, can be found.
>
> What's best will depend why you're using the git version.
>
> Mark
>
>> > Fabrizio Marinelli wrote:
>> >> Here it is my .mdp file, i attach you also the topology file,
>> just to be
>> >> more specific the one that are 0 are the SR interactions,
>> thank you very
>> >> much.
>> >
>> > For diagnostic purposes, can you re-process your structure
>> using a
>> > different
>> > force field and try again?  If the energies are still
>> coming up zero, then
>> > there
>> > may be something wrong in the code as a whole, otherwise it is
>> specific to
>> > the
>> > CHARMM force field.  Either way, I'm out of my league on
>> this one :)
>> > Maybe a
>> > developer can comment.
>> >
>> > -Justin
>> >
>> >> Fabrizio
>> >>
>> >>
>> title                    = Teaa MD
>> >>
>> cpp                      = /lib/cpp
>> >>
>> include                  =
>> >>
>> integrator               = md
>> >>
>> comm_mode                = Linear
>> >>
>> nstcomm                  = 10
>> >>
>> tinit                    = 0
>> >> comm-
>> grps                = System
>> >>
>> dt                       = 0.002
>> >>
>> nsteps                   = 6000000
>> >> ; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS =
>> >> ; Output frequency for coords (x), velocities (v) and forces
>> (f) =
>> >>
>> nstxout                  = 5000
>> >>
>> nstvout                  = 5000
>> >> ; Output frequency for energies to log file and energy file =
>> >>
>> nstlog                   = 500
>> >>
>> nstenergy                = 500
>> >>
>> nstxtcout                = 500
>> >> xtc-
>> precision            = 100000
>> >>
>> xtc_grps                 = System
>> >>
>> energygrps               = System
>> >>
>> pbc                      = xyz
>> >>
>> nstlist                  = 5
>> >>
>> epsilon_r                = 1.
>> >>
>> ns_type                  = grid
>> >>
>> coulombtype              = pme
>> >>
>> vdwtype                  = Cut-Off
>> >>
>> fourierspacing           = 0.12
>> >> ; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters
>> >>
>> pme_order                = 4
>> >>
>> ewald_rtol               = 2.2e-05
>> >>
>> epsilon_surface          = 0
>> >>
>> optimize_fft             = yes
>> >>
>> rlist                    = 1.2
>> >>
>> rcoulomb                 = 1.2
>> >>
>> rvdw                     = 1.2
>> >>
>> tcoupl                   = Berendsen
>> >> tc-
>> grps                  = System
>> >>
>> tau_t                    = 1.0
>> >>
>> ref_t                    = 298
>> >>
>> pcoupl                   = Berendsen
>> >>
>> pcoupltype               = isotropic
>> >>
>> tau_p                    = 2.5
>> >>
>> compressibility          = 4.5e-5
>> >>
>> ref_p                    = 1.0
>> >> ; Dielectric constant of reaction field =
>> >>
>> epsilon_rf               = 80.0
>> >>
>> gen_vel                  = yes
>> >>
>> gen_temp                 = 298
>> >>
>> gen_seed                 = 173529
>> >>
>> constraints              = all-bonds
>> >> constraint_algorithm     = lincs
>> >>
>> 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
>> >> user1-
>> grps               = System
>> >> ; Non-equilibrium MD stuff =
>> >> acc-
>> grps                 =
>> >>
>> accelerate               =
>> >>
>> freezegrps               =
>> >>
>> freezedim                =
>> >> cos-
>> acceleration         =
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Fabrizio Marinelli wrote:
>> >>>> Hi all,
>> >>>> I have downloaded the latest git version of gromacs
>> (yesterday) in
>> >>>> which
>> >>>> it is possible to use the charmm27 force field, I
>> constructed the
>> >>>> topology
>> >>>> for my protein using the pdb2gmx program, everything goes
>> ok also with
>> >>>> the
>> >>>> solvation, but then when i run the MD i notice that coulomb
>> and LJ
>> >>>> interaction are 0 and also the protein consequently unfold.
>> >>>> Did any of you found this kind of problem? Could some of
>> you rpopose
>> >>>> eventually a solution?
>> >>> Can you post your .mdp file?
>> >>>
>> >>> -Justin
>> >>>
>> >>>> Thanks in advance,
>> >>>> Fabrizio
>> >>>>
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