[gmx-users] REMD speed calculation compared to classical MD

[Chris Neale]

Stefane,

If you are asking for a comparison of simulation time required, then 
that is not something that can be answered in the abstract. There are 
even cases in which REMD will take more total simulation time to 
converge the 300K ensemble than will N simulations all at 300K. The 
efficiency of REMD will be highly dependent on the size of the important 
energy barriers. REMD becomes more efficient than MD as the barriers get 
higher. To take that to an extreme, if you wanted to know the 
distribution of x-coordinate values of one specific water molecule in a 
box of pure water, REMD with 100 replicas would be 100 times less 
efficient than simple MD -- there are no energy barriers and so the 99 
replicas at temperatures above 300K are a total waste of time. At the 
other extreme, if your energy barrier is 30 Kcal/mol at 300K, then you 
will essentially never cross it at 300K and REMD, if it works, will be 
infinitely more "efficient" because the replica at 300K will essentially 
never sample the other side of that barrier.

There have been a few comparisons, but I don;t know of any general rule 
that you can apply here.

On 10/13/10 7:42 PM, XAvier Periole wrote:

>/
/>/  Well the exchanges do not cost time ... so basically each replica runs
/>/  at the speed it would run it was a regular simulation on the number of
/>/  cpu you give each replica.
/>/
/>/  I do not think there any significant difference in NPT/NVT simulations.
/>/  Note NVT is often used for REMD
/It us, but that gives high pressure at high T, which is typically not
what you want.

If you use NPT REMD than the run time between exchanges is in general
equal to that of the coldest replica, since that will be at the highest
density (unless you go below the density maximum of water :)).


>/
/>/  XAvier.
/>/
/>/  On Oct 13, 2010, at 11:36 AM, ABEL Stephane 175950 wrote:
/>/
/>>/  Dear All,
/>>/
/>>/  For a futur project, I would like to perform the REMD calculations
/>>/  with GROMACS4.5.X. To have an estimation of CPU time required, I have
/>>/  a naive question: What is the speed of REMD compared to a classic NPT
/>>/  MD ? I am aware that the response depends a lot of factor (number of
/>>/  replica, etc.), but since i have no idea and experience with this type
/>>/  of MD, I ask the question ;).
/>>/
/>>/  The system will have approximatively 25000 atoms. Previously for this
/>>/  system, I got 11 ns/day on 32 CPU for a NPT MD with GROMOS53A6 and
/>>/  GMX4.0.5.
/>>/
/>>/  Thanks you in advance for your response.
/>>/
/>>/  Stefane
/>>/
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David.

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