[gmx-users] Extending simulations

[Justin A. Lemkul]

Milan Melichercik wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2010 13:53:03 Carla Jamous wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> It's the first I use the process of extending simulations.
>> I did the following:
>> tpbconv -s prot.tpr -extend 6000 -o protein.tpr
>>
>> mdrun -v -s protein.tpr -cpi state.cpt -cpo state_a.cpt -o protein.trr -c
>> protein.gro -x protein.xtc -e md.edr -g md.log
>>
>> But I noticed sthg strange: gromacs named my files:
>> protein.part0002.gro/.xtc/.trr/.log/.edr
>>
>> Please does anyone know why it did this?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Carla
>>
> 
> This is OK - if you don't use "-append" in mdrun command, it will produce 
> another files as the continuation of the simulation - and the "partxxxx" is 
> just to have the order in them. At the end, you can use eneconv and trjcat to 
> get it in one peace.
> 

If you don't want the "partxxxx" to appear in the filename, supply the 
-noaddpart flag to mdrun, but yes, this is quite normal.

-Justin

> Milan

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Justin A. Lemkul
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