[gmx-users] Re: compression to study pressure effect

Vitaly Chaban vvchaban at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 03:03:00 CEST 2011


Hey Eli:

What is the correlation observed between you and Moeed?

I suppose you eventually compressed your system so much, that it
became very distorted. Check your GRO file. I believe it is not
healthy inside.

Regards.

Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban, Department of Chemistry
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627-0216




On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Moeed <lecielll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Dr.Chaban,
>
> I am so sorry to send you this message. Thank you for your comments. I have
> encountered a problem that no one on the list could help much. I am very
> hopeful you can assist me especially because I have noticed you respond to
> messages dealing with compression or NPT runs. I am really confused since I
> have been using the same input files (gro. top and mdp) and have been
> collecting without any problem. Since yesterday I am getting a weird message
> that is printed continuously until I kill mdrun.
>
>
> arning: Only triclinic boxes with the first vector parallel to the x-axis
> and the second vector in the xy-plane are supported.
>          Box (3x3):
>             Box[    0]={         nan,          nan,          nan}
>             Box[    1]={         nan,          nan,          nan}
>             Box[    2]={         nan,          nan,          nan}
>
> I have only polyethylene chains in my system. I really appreciate if you
> could help me or could kindly take a very brief look at my system. I can
> send you top and gro files. I assure you top file is generated properly. I
> have done many runs using that. Please let me know if you are interested.
>
> I thank you so much
>
> Waiting for your reply.
>
> Best regards,
> Eli.
>
>
> ;        Run control
> integrator          =  md
> dt                  =  0.002
> nsteps              =  1000000 ;5000
> nstcomm             =  100
>
> ;        Output control
> nstenergy           =  100
> nstxout             =  100
> nstvout             =  0
> nstfout             =  0
> nstlog              =  1000
> nstxtcout          =  1000
>
> ;        Neighbor searching
> nstlist             =  10
> ns_type             =  grid
>
> ;        Electrostatics/VdW
> coulombtype         =  Shift
> vdw-type            =  Shift
> rcoulomb-switch     =  0
> rvdw-switch         =  0.9 ;0
>
> ;        Cut-offs
> rlist               =  1.25
> rcoulomb            =  1.0 ;1.1
> rvdw                =  1.0
>
> ;        Temperature coupling
> Tcoupl              =  v-rescale
> tc-grps             =  System  ;HEX
> tau_t               =  0.1     ;0.1
> ref_t               =  300     ;300
>
> ;        Pressure coupling
> Pcoupl              = Parrinello-Rahman
> Pcoupltype          =  isotropic
> tau_p               =  1                ;0.5
> compressibility     =  4.5e-5 4.5e-5
> ref_p               =  10    30
>
> ;        Velocity generation
> gen_vel             =  yes
> gen_temp            =  300.0
> gen_seed            =  173529
>
> ;        Bonds
> constraints             = all-bonds
> constraint-algorithm = lincs
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 1 June 2011 14:59, Vitaly Chaban <vvchaban at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Either a tighter pressure coupling time...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Vitaly Chaban <vvchaban at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hmm...
>> >
>> >
>> > 1. The background of the task is not quite clear for me.
>> >
>> > 2. Evidently, the fluctuations are higher than the difference for your
>> > pressures.
>> >
>> > 3. Why not to use significantly larger systems and significantly
>> > larger difference between pressures?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban, Department of Chemistry
>> > University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627-0216
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I am trying to study the effect of pressure on total potential of my
>> >> system
>> >> (8 polymer chains). My problem is that I dont see a systematic effect
>> >> of
>> >> pressure on potentials and I cant judge if different pressures increase
>> >> or
>> >> decrease potential. This is the critical observable in my system and
>> >> with
>> >> high fluctuations I am getting I cant make comment on pressure effect.
>> >> Total
>> >> drift is high in most potential functions..I start my runs from a frame
>> >> which is the output of an older NPT run (I use cpt file) that has a
>> >> close
>> >> density to what I want. In the production runs (NPT for 12 27 70 bar).
>> >>
>> >> Below is the settings I am using and I really appreciate it if you
>> >> could
>> >> comment on the most important factors for such a study. I tried
>> >> different
>> >> cutoffs as well...I though maybe increasing cutoffs invloves more
>> >> interactions and can represent better the pressure effect...
>> >>
>> >> Thanks so much!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ;        Run control
>> >> integrator          =  md
>> >> dt                  =  0.002
>> >> nsteps              =  1000000 ;5000
>> >> nstcomm             =  100
>> >>
>> >> ;        Output control
>> >> nstenergy           =  100
>> >> nstxout             =  100
>> >> nstvout             =  0
>> >> nstfout             =  0
>> >> nstlog              =  1000
>> >> nstxtcout          =  1000
>> >>
>> >> ;        Neighbor searching
>> >> nstlist             =  10
>> >> ns_type             =  grid
>> >>
>> >> ;        Electrostatics/VdW
>> >> coulombtype         =  Shift
>> >> vdw-type            =  Shift
>> >> rcoulomb-switch     =  0.5 ;0
>> >> rvdw-switch         =  0.9 ;0
>> >>
>> >> ;        Cut-offs
>> >> rlist               =  1.32         ;1.25                 ; tired
>> >> different
>> >> cutoffs and r -switch...
>> >> rcoulomb    =  1.1           ;1.0
>> >> rvdw             =  1.1         ;1.0
>> >>
>> >> ;        Temperature coupling
>> >> Tcoupl              =  v-rescale
>> >> tc-grps             =  System
>> >> tau_t               =  0.1
>> >> ref_t               =  300
>> >>
>> >> ;        Pressure coupling
>> >> Pcoupl              =  Parrinello-Rahman
>> >> Pcoupltype          =  isotropic
>> >> tau_p               =  1
>> >> compressibility     =  3.5e-5
>> >> ref_p               =  10
>> >>
>> >> ;        Velocity generation
>> >> gen_vel             =  no;yes
>> >> gen_temp            =  300.0
>> >> gen_seed            =  173529
>> >>
>> >> ;        Bonds
>> >>
>> >> constraints             = all-bonds
>> >> constraint-algorithm = lincs
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> results for 12 27 70 bar resp.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Statistics over 2043101 steps [ 500.0000 through 4586.2000 ps ], 17
>> >> data
>> >> sets
>> >>
>> >> All statistics are over 204311 points
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Energy                      Average   Err.Est.       RMSD  Tot-Drift
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> LJ (SR)                    -634.358        2.9    11.0696   -20.3551
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Coulomb (SR)                184.082        1.4    3.62712    9.04046
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> P*otential                   642.528        6.4    23.1897   -44.6636
>> >> (kJ/mol)*
>> >>
>> >> Kinetic En.                 904.294      0.075    16.2742   0.382223
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Total Energy                1546.82        6.3    28.6865   -44.2813
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Temperature                 300.186      0.025     5.4023   0.126881
>> >>  (K)
>> >>
>> >> Pressure                    12.3856       0.89    887.501    5.41599
>> >>  (bar)
>> >>
>> >> Density                     824.417        2.1    9.27838    14.7965
>> >> (kg/m^3)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Statistics over 750001 steps [ 500.0000 through 2000.0000 ps ], 17 data
>> >> sets
>> >>
>> >> All statistics are over 75001 points
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Energy                      Average   Err.Est.       RMSD  Tot-Drift
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> LJ (SR)                    -638.643        4.3    12.0718   -10.2094
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Coulomb (SR)                 184.51          1    2.89777    5.99117
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> *Potential                   634.902        5.7    22.2857   -21.4761
>> >> (kJ/mol)*
>> >>
>> >> Kinetic En.                 904.181       0.11    16.2261  -0.275076
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Total Energy                1539.08        5.7    27.9661   -21.7511
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Temperature                 300.148      0.035    5.38636 -0.0913135
>> >>  (K)
>> >>
>> >> Pressure                    27.6467        1.4    881.409    8.58275
>> >>  (bar)
>> >>
>> >> Density                     826.734        3.4    9.76089    6.06824
>> >> (kg/m^3)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 70 bar run
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> even 6 ns runs gives large total drifts..e.g.13.4934 for density..
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Statistics over 2750001 steps [ 500.0000 through 6000.0000 ps ], 17
>> >> data
>> >> sets
>> >>
>> >> All statistics are over 275001 points
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Energy                      Average   Err.Est.       RMSD  Tot-Drift
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> LJ (SR)                    -639.206        3.7    11.6741   -23.7773
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Coulomb (SR)                 182.97        1.7    4.18663    11.8694
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> *Potential                   640.114        7.5    24.9191   -51.8187
>> >> (kJ/mol)*
>> >>
>> >> Kinetic En.                   904.3      0.074    16.2887   0.161695
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Total Energy                1544.41        7.5    30.1347    -51.657
>> >> (kJ/mol)
>> >>
>> >> Temperature                 300.187      0.024    5.40713  0.0536754
>> >>  (K)
>> >>
>> >> Pressure                    69.7658       0.86    893.933   -2.29885
>> >>  (bar)
>> >>
>> >> Density                     829.657        2.3    8.98849    13.4934
>> >> (kg/m^3)
>> >
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