[gmx-users] trr files transferability

[Mark Abraham]

On 24/02/2011 9:44 AM, Ravi Bhadauria wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a simple question about trr files. Are they transferable across 
> different version(s), and more importantly, different bit 
> architectures (32bit to 64bit and vice versa). Please let me know.

All GROMACS file formats are insensitive to endian-ness or machine word 
size. The .tpr and .cpt file formats are versioned and fully 
backward-compatible. So you can't run a new .tpr on an old mdrun.

Mark