[gmx-users] Frozen N2 in a very long tube

Mark Abraham mark.abraham at anu.edu.au
Sat Jul 10 09:32:11 CEST 2010



----- Original Message -----
From: shuai shuai <banshuai at gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:27
Subject: [gmx-users] Frozen N2 in a very long tube
To: gmx-users at gromacs.org

> Hear all,
> 
> Recently I met a strong error from gromacs. Therefore I would 
> like to know
> whether you have experienced the same thing or what is the 
> reason for that.
> 
> The system I simulated is nvt MD for N2 (with partial charge) 

How do you have partial charges on such a molecule?

> diffusion in a
> long tube (100x2.5x2.5 nm^3) at 300k. I get molecules freezed in a
> small cluster after a few ns. The weird thing is that I do not have
> such problem for either longer domain or short domain.  The input
> parameters are:

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by "freezed in a small cluster", or a longer or shorter "domain".

Mark
 
> title                    = CNT
> ; Preprocessor - specify a full path if necessary.
> cpp                      = /lib/cpp
> include                  =
> define                   = -DPOSRES
> 
> ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS
> integrator               = md
> ; Start time and timestep in ps
> tinit                    = 0
> dt                       = 0.002
> nsteps                   = 10000000
> ; For exact run continuation or redoing part of a run
> init_step                = 0
> ; 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                =
> 
> ; LANGEVIN DYNAMICS OPTIONS
> ; Friction coefficient (amu/ps) and random seed
> bd-
> fric                  = 0
> ld-
> seed                  = 1993
> 
> ; ENERGY MINIMIZATION OPTIONS
> ; Force tolerance and initial step-size
> emtol                    = 100
> emstep                   = 0.01
> ; Max number of iterations in relax_shells
> niter                    = 20
> ; Step size (ps^2) for minimization of flexible constraints
> fcstep                   = 0
> ; Frequency of steepest descents steps when doing CG
> nstcgsteep               = 1000
> nbfgscorr                = 10
> 
> ; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS
> ; Output frequency for coords (x), velocities (v) and forces (f)
> nstxout                  = 100000
> nstvout                  = 100000
> nstfout                  = 100000
> ; Checkpointing helps you continue after crashes
> nstcheckpoint            = 100000
> ; Output frequency for energies to log file and energy file
> nstlog                   = 100000
> nstenergy                = 100000
> ; Output frequency and precision for xtc file
> nstxtcout                = 10000
> xtc-
> precision            = 100
> 
> ; nblist update frequency
> nstlist                  = 10
> ; ns algorithm (simple or grid)
> ns_type                  = grid
> ; Periodic boundary conditions: xyz (default), no (vacuum)
> ; or full (infinite systems only)
> pbc                      = xyz
> ; nblist cut-off
> rlist                    = 1.0
> domain-decomposition     = no
> 
> ; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW
> ; Method for doing electrostatics
> coulombtype              = PME
> rcoulomb-
> switch          = 0
> rcoulomb                 = 1.0
> ; Relative dielectric constant for the medium and the reaction field
> epsilon-
> r                = 1
> epsilon_rf               = 1
> ; Method for doing Van der Waals
> vdw-
> type                 = Cut-off
> ; cut-off lengths
> rvdw-
> switch              = 0
> rvdw                     = 1.0
> ; Apply long range dispersion corrections for Energy and Pressure
> DispCorr                 = No
> ; Extension of the potential lookup tables beyond the cut-off
> table-
> extension          = 1
> ; Seperate tables between energy group pairs
> energygrp_table          =
> ; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid
> fourierspacing           = 0.12
> ; FFT grid size, when a value is 0 fourierspacing will be used
> fourier_nx               = 0
> fourier_ny               = 0
> fourier_nz               = 0
> ; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters
> pme_order                = 4
> ewald_rtol               = 1e-05
> ewald_geometry           = 3d
> epsilon_surface          = 0
> optimize_fft             = no
> ; GENERALIZED BORN ELECTROSTATICS
> ; Algorithm for calculating Born radii
> gb_algorithm             = Still
> ; Frequency of calculating the Born radii inside rlist
> nstgbradii               = 1
> ; Cutoff for Born radii calculation; the contribution from atoms
> ; between rlist and rgbradii is updated every nstlist steps
> rgbradii                 = 2
> ; Salt concentration in M for Generalized Born models
> gb_saltconc              = 0
> 
> ; IMPLICIT SOLVENT (for use with Generalized Born electrostatics)
> implicit_solvent         
> = 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                    = 1
> ref_t                    = 303.15
> ; Pressure coupling
> Pcoupl                   = no
> Pcoupltype               = isotropic
> ; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar)
> tau_p                    = 5
> compressibility          = 4.5e-5
> ref_p                    = 1
> ; Random seed for Andersen thermostat
> andersen_seed            = 815131
> ; OPTIONS FOR BONDS
> constraints              = all-bonds
> ; Type of constraint algorithm
> constraint-algorithm     = Lincs
> ; Do not constrain the start configuration
> unconstrained-start      = no
> ; Use successive overrelaxation to reduce the number of shake 
> iterationsShake-
> SOR                = no
> ; Relative tolerance of shake
> shake-
> tol                = 1e-04
> ; Highest order in the expansion of the constraint coupling matrix
> lincs-
> order              = 4
> ; Number of iterations in the final step of LINCS. 1 is fine for
> ; normal simulations, but use 2 to conserve energy in NVE runs.
> ; For energy minimization with constraints it should be 4 to 8.
> lincs-
> iter               = 2
> ; 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
> ; Non-equilibrium MD stuff
> acc-
> grps                 =
> accelerate               =
> freezegrps               = CNT
> freezedim                = Y Y Y
> cos-acceleration         
> = 0
> deform                   =
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> please help me if you have any suggestions or solutions. many thanks.
> 
> 
> best regards
> shuai
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