[gmx-users] gmx-users Digest, Vol 88, Issue 131

Mark Abraham Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Mon Aug 22 08:55:37 CEST 2011


On 22/08/2011 4:50 PM, meisam valizadeh kiamahalleh wrote:
>
> Dear Mark
> Thank you very much for your kind reply and advice.
> Actually I have the parameters for cisplatin and carbon nanotubes. and 
> I have generated all forcefield parameter properly. there is no 
> mis-matching. I have solved the non-integer charge problem by 
> modifying the topology file manually as far as I had the charges value 
> from literature.
> But I still have one note which stop the calculation of minimization. 

Notes do not stop correct completion - they bring matters to your 
attention that you may wish to address.

> The note is as stated below. Kindly would you please help me on how to 
> solve this matter?
>
> NOTE 1 [file mdmin1.mdp]:
>   The optimal PME mesh load for parallel simulations is below 0.5
>   and for highly parallel simulations between 0.25 and 0.33,
>   for higher performance, increase the cut-off and the PME grid spacing

Justin addressed this issue in his email several days ago. It is a 
useful advisory message about possible inefficiency, but irrelevant for 
a calculation whose length will be measured in seconds.

>
> This run will generate roughly 0 Mb of data

Advisory message only.

Mark

>
>
> Thank you very much
> Meisam
>
>
>     Message: 1
>     Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:32:35 +1000
>     From: Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
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>     Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Re: Warning and Notes in Grompp for
>            minimization
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>     On 21/08/2011 4:42 PM, meisam valizadeh kiamahalleh wrote:
>     > Dear Justin
>     > Thank you very much for your reply
>     > >>Regarding Warning 1; Yes, I have introduced the new parameter
>     for C
>     > C bond and it is what I want.
>     > >>Regarding Note 1;  Actually, the charges for each atom in topology
>     > file are what I included myself in Cisplatin parameters based on
>     > the literature. May I know what should I do if I have non-integer
>     > charge in this case?
>
>     Each molecule has to have an integer for its total charge. You'll need
>     to investigate in your .top file why this is not the case.
>
>     > >>May I know whether my mdp file contents (rlis, rcoulomb,vdwtype
>     > and rvdw) are correct?
>
>     They're not evidently wrong, but you need to choose these kinds of
>     parameters to be consistent with the force field you are using. If
>     someone's parametrized cis-platin with a carbon nanotube, then you
>     have
>     simply to copy what they did. If not, then you are very likely to
>     struggle to get something working that proves to be a valid model
>     - and
>     very much more so if this happens to be your first excursion into MD
>     simulations. See
>     http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Parameterization
>
>     Mark
>
>     > Thanks so much
>     > M.V.K
>     >
>     >     Message: 3
>     >     Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:37:07 -0400
>     >     From: "Justin A. Lemkul" <jalemkul at vt.edu
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>     >
>     >     meisam valizadeh kiamahalleh wrote:
>     > > Dear gmx-users
>     > > Good day to you
>     > > I have a system including carbon nanotube (1260atoms) and 18
>     >     Cisplatin
>     > > molecules (198atoms) =1458atoms. I have created the topology
>     >     file of the
>     > > system and now I would like to run minimization on this system.
>     > > The content of my mdp file is as below;
>     > >
>     > > define               = -DFLEXIBLE
>     > > constraints          = none
>     > > integrator           = steep
>     > > dt                   = 0.002     ; ps !
>     > > nsteps               = 400
>     > > nstlist              = 10
>     > > ns_type              = grid
>     > > rlist                = 1
>     > > coulombtype          = PME
>     > > rcoulomb             = 1
>     > > vdwtype              = cut-off
>     > > rvdw                 = 1.4
>     > > optimize_fft         = yes
>     > > ;
>     > > ;        Energy minimizing stuff
>     > > ;
>     > > emtol                = 1000.0
>     > > emstep               = 0.01
>     > >
>     > > After entering the command; grompp -f mdmin1.mdp -c
>     >     SWCNT-DDP-box.pdb -p
>     > > SWCNT-DDP2.top -o SWCNT-DDP2.tpr -maxwarn 5 , However a wrong
>     >     TPR file
>     > > is generated, I also get 2 notes and 1 warning as stated below;
>     >
>     >     The -maxwarn option should almost never be used.  If you're
>     >     overriding warnings
>     >     that grompp is producing, they typically only occur if the
>     system
>     >     will become
>     >     unstable.  Beware.
>     >
>     > > WARNING 1 [file ffbonded.itp, line 2705]:
>     > >   Overriding Bond parameters.
>     > >
>     > >   old: 0.151 292880 0.151 292880
>     > >   new: C        C        1     0.14210   478900
>     > >
>     > > Generated 347361 of the 347361 non-bonded parameter combinations
>     > > Generating 1-4 interactions: fudge = 0.5
>     > > Generated 347361 of the 347361 1-4 parameter combinations
>     > > Excluding 3 bonded neighbours molecule type 'ICE'
>     > >
>     > > NOTE 1 [file SWCNT-DDP2.top, line 15383]:
>     > >   System has non-zero total charge: -3.097796e-01
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Analysing residue names:
>     > > There are:     2      Other residues
>     > > Analysing residues not classified as Protein/DNA/RNA/Water and
>     >     splitting
>     > > into groups...
>     > > Number of degrees of freedom in T-Coupling group rest is 4371.00
>     > > Calculating fourier grid dimensions for X Y Z
>     > > Using a fourier grid of 120x120x120, spacing 0.118 0.118 0.118
>     > > Estimate for the relative computational load of the PME mesh
>     >     part: 0.97
>     > >
>     > > NOTE 2 [file mdmin1.mdp]:
>     > >   The optimal PME mesh load for parallel simulations is below 0.5
>     > >   and for highly parallel simulations between 0.25 and 0.33,
>     > >   for higher performance, increase the cut-off and the PME grid
>     >     spacing
>     > >
>     > > This run will generate roughly 0 Mb of data.
>     > >
>     > > My questions:
>     > > 1) May I know whether warning 1 should be taken serious?If yes,
>     >     Then how
>     > > to solve it?
>     >
>     >     You have different bonded parameters assigned for a single bond
>     >     type.  You
>     >     should investigate why you've produced different parameters for
>     >     the same
>     >     interaction and correct it, if necessary.  If you are trying to
>     >     override
>     >     existing parameters, this may be what you want.  Otherwise,
>     >     eliminate the
>     >     duplicate entry such that the parameters you actually wish
>     to use
>     >     are being
>     >     assigned.
>     >
>     >
>     > > 2) Regarding Note 1, Is it necessary to do ionization to make
>     >     the system
>     > > neutralize before minimization?
>     >
>     >     Not in this case.  You have a non-integer charge of sufficiently
>     >     disturbing
>     >     magnitude (i.e., it does not arise simply due to floating point
>     >     arithmetic),
>     >     indicating that the charges assigned in the topology are junk.
>     >
>     > > 3) Regarding Note 2, Is there anything wrong with my mdp file or
>     >     it is
>     > > because of using a computer with small processor. Actually I
>     >     just tried
>     > > to do this minimization on my laptop for the first time. If the
>     > > processor is too small for this calculation, I may be able to
>     >     work with
>     > > our cluster if it is advised.
>     >
>     >     For minimization, this often happens.  It is unimportant in
>     this case.
>     >
>     >     -Justin
>     >
>     > >
>     > > Thank you very much
>     > > Best regards
>     > > M.V.K
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
>     >     --
>     >     ========================================
>     >
>     >     Justin A. Lemkul
>     >     Ph.D. Candidate
>     >     ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
>     >     MILES-IGERT Trainee
>     >     Department of Biochemistry
>     >     Virginia Tech
>     >     Blacksburg, VA
>     >     jalemkul[at]vt.edu <http://vt.edu> <http://vt.edu> | (540)
>     231-9080 <tel:%28540%29%20231-9080>
>     > <tel:%28540%29%20231-9080>
>     > http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin
>     >
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