[gmx-users] RE : Questions about REMD calculations

ABEL Stephane 175950 Stephane.ABEL at cea.fr
Thu Oct 14 22:54:51 CEST 2010


Dear all, 
 
Thank you very much Chris, Xavier and ms (;) for your comments and I will take into account your suggestions in my proposal (for GENCI, Chris ;)) . 
 
A bientot
 
Stefane


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:22:38 +0200
From: Florian Dommert <dommert at icp.uni-stuttgart.de>
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On 10/14/2010 04:41 PM, Eudes Fileti wrote:
> Dear Florian, thanks for the help. I wonder just one more thing.
> Is it possible to obtain the lateral diffusion coefficient in a specific
> plane (say xy)
> using g_velacc? Or it is only possible with g_msd?

I am not sure, but the MSD is nothing else than the integrated VACF, so
if you modify the code correspondingly it should work. The modification
shouldn't be that hard, because you just have to prevent summing up a
certain direction of the velocity.

/Flo

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> eef
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> Simulação Computacional de Nano-estruturas via Dinâmica Molecular
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:54:02 +0200
From: "ABEL Stephane 175950" <Stephane.ABEL at cea.fr>
Subject: [gmx-users] Questions about REMD calculations
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Dear all,

I come back to you for several questions about the futures replica-exchange calculations that i would like to perform. The system of interest will contain 12 peptides (with 7 residues each) and 40000 water molecules, it come from a previous MD performed in NPT ensemble. With these systems, i would like to study the aggregation process between the peptides.

After reading several paper about REMD method and playing with the Temperature generator for REMD-simulations web server (http://folding.bmc.uu.se/remd/), i suspect that this system is too big for REMD. Indeed if use the following parameters in the webserver

Pdes 0.2
Temperature range 290 - 600
Number of water molecules 41380
Number of protein atoms 1092
Including all H ~ 1656
Number of hydrogens in protein ~ 240
Number of constraints ~ 1092
Number of vsites ~ 0
Number of degrees of freedom ~ 250464
Energy loss due to constraints 520.59 (kJ/mol K)

I obtain 271 replicas (ouch !!) . If i assume that for each replica app. 16 CPU, The simulations will be too big and will cost a lot CPU time.

So my question is can i reduce safely the number of water in system to reduce the number of replicas ?

For example for 10000 mol of water the number of replicas will be 135. It is not bad. It is a good option to overcome this limitation.

I have also read the number of replicas can be significantly reduced by using variants of REMD for example replica exchange with solute tempering (REST) from Berne and co-workers. Is this method is implemented in GROMACS ?

Or Can i use the REMD in implicit solvant for example with the coarse grain OPEP force field as described in Chebaro, et al. (2008).J. Phys. Chem. B 113(1): 267-274. or by Wang and Voth in J. Phys. Chem. B 112(41): 13079-13090.

Any advices and comments are welcome

Stefane

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:16:35 -0400
From: chris.neale at utoronto.ca
Subject: [gmx-users] Questions about REMD calculations
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Stefane,

why are you hesitant to reduce the size of your system. If you can 
still address the same questions with a smaller system, then I'd say 
the answer is nearly always to use that smaller system (REMD or not). 
Besides, my gut feeling is that even if you had enough 271*16 cpus 
available, you would not get enough exchanges within a reasonable wall 
clock time to get a converged answer. I say this because you're 
basically looking at a protein folding problem over 12*7 residues 
(larger than I have seen REMD be successfully reported) but also you 
have a big entropy problem because the 7-mers are not tethered 
together so this might even be harder than protein folding. Sure, 
there could be some help from symmetry, but I assume that you don't 
know that yet or else why do REMD?

I am personally highly suspect about REST: what ensemble does this 
method sample, exactly?

Implicit solvent might be an option, but only if your implicit solvent 
aggregation energy landscape has important minima in the same place as 
the explicit solvent energy landscape, and how would you know this?

So I suggest that you make your box smaller and look at 2 peptides in 
a box of water (try to get even fewer than 10K waters if you can). 
Besides, this is your first REMD right? That's another reason to keep 
things simple at the start. If you get good results from this, you can 
publish them and them move on to the more complex system if you 
believe that you can converge it. Perhaps with your first results in 
hand, you could get an allocation from GENCI, Grand Equipement 
National de Calcul Intensif, or some similar HPCS organization in 
France, to compute the second part.

Chris.

--- original message ---

Dear all,

I come back to you for several questions about the futures 
replica-exchange calculations that i would like to perform. The system 
of interest will contain 12 peptides (with 7 residues each) and 40000 
water molecules, it come from a previous MD performed in NPT ensemble. 
With these systems, i would like to study the aggregation process 
between the peptides.

After reading several paper about REMD method and playing with the 
Temperature generator for REMD-simulations web server 
(http://folding.bmc.uu.se/remd/), i suspect that this system is too 
big for REMD. Indeed if use the following parameters in the webserver

Pdes 0.2
Temperature range 290 - 600
Number of water molecules 41380
Number of protein atoms 1092
Including all H ~ 1656
Number of hydrogens in protein ~ 240
Number of constraints ~ 1092
Number of vsites ~ 0
Number of degrees of freedom ~ 250464
Energy loss due to constraints 520.59 (kJ/mol K)

I obtain 271 replicas (ouch !!) . If i assume that for each replica 
app. 16 CPU, The simulations will be too big and will cost a lot CPU 
time.

So my question is can i reduce safely the number of water in system to 
reduce the number of replicas ?

For example for 10000 mol of water the number of replicas will be 135. 
It is not bad. It is a good option to overcome this limitation.

I have also read the number of replicas can be significantly reduced 
by using variants of REMD for example replica exchange with solute 
tempering (REST) from Berne and co-workers. Is this method is 
implemented in GROMACS ?

Or Can i use the REMD in implicit solvant for example with the coarse 
grain OPEP force field as described in Chebaro, et al. (2008).J. Phys. 
Chem. B 113(1): 267-274. or by Wang and Voth in J. Phys. Chem. B 
112(41): 13079-13090.

Any advices and comments are welcome

Stefane





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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:32:44 -0600
From: XAvier Periole <x.periole at rug.nl>
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Questions about REMD calculations
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Well indeed the more atoms (degrees of freedom) in your system the
more replicas you need to insure exchanges between temperatures ...

I would say that even 135 replicas * 16 cpus= 2160 cpus ... that is 
still
an enormous amount of cpu time for 12 small peptides :))

do you need to go up to 600K ? You can be sure that at that temperature
the force field is not accurate and the peptides will just be really 
crazy ...

what about you keep the temperature lower than 400 K. You still will
increase your sampling considerably but need much less cpus! You can
convince yourself by simulating your system at 400K and 600K and
look at its behavior ...

Then I am not a fan of implicit solvents so I'll pass on that, then 
for the
coarse grained FF the OPEP FF seem to be fine for your application.
You can also look at the ones from Deserno's group (bereau-2009) and
from Feig's group (primo: gopal-2010). I am no sure how the one of voth
is transferable ... the others are :))

XAvier.

On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:54 AM, ABEL Stephane 175950 wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I come back to you for several questions about the futures replica-
> exchange calculations that i would like to perform. The system of 
> interest will contain 12 peptides (with 7 residues each) and 40000 
> water molecules, it come from a previous MD performed in NPT 
> ensemble. With these systems, i would like to study the aggregation 
> process between the peptides.
>
> After reading several paper about REMD method and playing with the 
> Temperature generator for REMD-simulations web server (http://folding.bmc.uu.se/remd/
> ), i suspect that this system is too big for REMD. Indeed if use the 
> following parameters in the webserver
>
> Pdes 0.2
> Temperature range 290 - 600
> Number of water molecules 41380
> Number of protein atoms 1092
> Including all H ~ 1656
> Number of hydrogens in protein ~ 240
> Number of constraints ~ 1092
> Number of vsites ~ 0
> Number of degrees of freedom ~ 250464
> Energy loss due to constraints 520.59 (kJ/mol K)
>
> I obtain 271 replicas (ouch !!) . If i assume that for each replica 
> app. 16 CPU, The simulations will be too big and will cost a lot CPU 
> time.
>
> So my question is can i reduce safely the number of water in system 
> to reduce the number of replicas ?
>
> For example for 10000 mol of water the number of replicas will be 
> 135. It is not bad. It is a good option to overcome this limitation.
>
> I have also read the number of replicas can be significantly reduced 
> by using variants of REMD for example replica exchange with solute 
> tempering (REST) from Berne and co-workers. Is this method is 
> implemented in GROMACS ?
>
> Or Can i use the REMD in implicit solvant for example with the 
> coarse grain OPEP force field as described in Chebaro, et al. 
> (2008).J. Phys. Chem. B 113(1): 267-274. or by Wang and Voth in J. 
> Phys. Chem. B 112(41): 13079-13090.
>
> Any advices and comments are welcome
>
> Stefane
>
> ------------------------------
> Stéphane Abel, PhD
> CEA Saclay DSV/IBITEC-S/SB2SM
> 91191 Saclay, FRANCE
> website: http://www.st-abel.com <http://www.st-abel.com/> 
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:42:55 +0100
From: ms <devicerandom at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Questions about REMD calculations
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On 14/10/10 17:32, XAvier Periole wrote:

> Then I am not a fan of implicit solvents so I'll pass on that, then for the
> coarse grained FF the OPEP FF seem to be fine for your application.
> You can also look at the ones from Deserno's group (bereau-2009) and
> from Feig's group (primo: gopal-2010). I am no sure how the one of voth
> is transferable ... the others are :))

Is OPEP available as a Gromacs FF? I suspect that it is not trivial to
port to Gromacs, it includes explicit directional (angle-dependent)
hydrogen bond interactions, for example, which to my knowledge Gromacs
does not support.

I'd like if it was available though.

m.


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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:04:42 -0600
From: XAvier Periole <x.periole at rug.nl>
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Questions about REMD calculations
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On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:42 AM, ms wrote:

> On 14/10/10 17:32, XAvier Periole wrote:
>
>> Then I am not a fan of implicit solvents so I'll pass on that, then 
>> for the
>> coarse grained FF the OPEP FF seem to be fine for your application.
>> You can also look at the ones from Deserno's group (bereau-2009) and
>> from Feig's group (primo: gopal-2010). I am no sure how the one of 
>> voth
>> is transferable ... the others are :))
>
> Is OPEP available as a Gromacs FF? I suspect that it is not trivial 
> to port to Gromacs, it includes explicit directional (angle-
> dependent) hydrogen bond interactions, for example, which to my 
> knowledge Gromacs does not support.
>
> I'd like if it was available though.
The have their own code that I am sure they would be happy to share!
>
> m.
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