[gmx-users] Re: double precision energy minimization show zero pressure in gromacs 4.5.5

Yongchul Chung yxc169 at case.edu
Fri Apr 27 16:38:00 CEST 2012


Can anyone from development comment on this? I see that now 4.6 is coming
out ... if this is a bug in the code, it would be nice if it's fixed in 4.6.

Greg

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Yongchul Chung <yxc169 at case.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am carrying out energy minimization on bulk polymer system (N~20000)
> with integrator = l-bfgs in double precision gromacs 4.5.5.  I am using
> tabulated force-fields for bonded, and non-bonded interactions. In the
> force field, the coulombic interaction is set to zero, hence, the output is
> zero in md.log file.
>
> I used g_energy to check the energy and pressure of the system after the
> minimization is finished. For some reason, the pressure output for the
> system is 0 with gromacs 4.5.5. So I went back and checked the md.log file
> to see if this happens during the simulation or not, and I found at time =
> 0, the pressure is 0.
>
> I wanted to make sure that this has to do with gromacs version, and not
> how the mdp file is configured, so I did same minimization with gromacs
> 4.0.7. When using version 4.0.7 with the same input files, I get the
> pressure output just fine. The potential energy at the end of simulation
> for both cases are exactly the same (only difference is 4.0.7 converges at
> 1754 steps, and 4.5.5 converges at 2148 steps)
>
> It is possible that I am doing (or setting) something wrong since I'm
> using the same mdp file from 4.0.7 to 4.5.5. To check if I'm setting
> something wrong by default, I compared the md.log output between these two
> versions. It seems like there are a few new things with gromacs 4.5.5 that
> is missing in 4.0.7. For example, with 4.5.5
>
> nstcalcenergy = -1
> nstcouple = -1
> nstpcouple = -1
> rlistlong = 1.1
>
> I see nstcalcenergy is the frequency of energy output during calculation
> so it does not affect any calculation. Also since I am not coupling my
> system to thermal/pressure bath, nstcouple, nspcouple, and rlistlong does
> not mean much here.
>
> So I suppose I can repeat the calculation again with 4.0.7 instead. But
> since I've already carried out lots of calculation with 4.5.5, I kind of do
> not want to repeat the steps again in calculating pressure values, if
> possible. If someone can help me with this, it would be great.
>
> I am appending snippet of md.log output from 4.5.5 and 4.0.7 below as a
> reference.
>
> Greg
>
> ### md.log file 4.5.5 ###
>
> :-)  /nfs/01/cwr0351/GMX4.5.5/bin/mdrun_d (double precision)  (-:
>
>
> ++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
> B. Hess and C. Kutzner and D. van der Spoel and E. Lindahl
> GROMACS 4: Algorithms for highly efficient, load-balanced, and scalable
> molecular simulation
> J. Chem. Theory Comput. 4 (2008) pp. 435-447
> -------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------
>
>
> ++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
> D. van der Spoel, E. Lindahl, B. Hess, G. Groenhof, A. E. Mark and H. J. C.
> Berendsen
> GROMACS: Fast, Flexible and Free
> J. Comp. Chem. 26 (2005) pp. 1701-1719
> -------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------
>
>
> ++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
> E. Lindahl and B. Hess and D. van der Spoel
> GROMACS 3.0: A package for molecular simulation and trajectory analysis
> J. Mol. Mod. 7 (2001) pp. 306-317
> -------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------
>
>
> ++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
> H. J. C. Berendsen, D. van der Spoel and R. van Drunen
> GROMACS: A message-passing parallel molecular dynamics implementation
> Comp. Phys. Comm. 91 (1995) pp. 43-56
> -------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------
>
> Input Parameters:
>    integrator           = l-bfgs
>    nsteps               = 100000
>    init_step            = 0
>    ns_type              = Grid
>    nstlist              = 10
>    ndelta               = 2
>    nstcomm              = 100
>    comm_mode            = Linear
>    nstlog               = 1
>    nstxout              = 1
>    nstvout              = 1
>    nstfout              = 1
>    nstcalcenergy        = -1
>    nstenergy            = 1
>    nstxtcout            = 10
>    init_t               = 0
>    delta_t              = 0.003
>    xtcprec              = 1000
>    nkx                  = 0
>    nky                  = 0
>    nkz                  = 0
>    pme_order            = 4
>    ewald_rtol           = 1e-05
>    ewald_geometry       = 0
>    epsilon_surface      = 0
>    optimize_fft         = FALSE
>    ePBC                 = xyz
>    bPeriodicMols        = FALSE
>    bContinuation        = TRUE
>    bShakeSOR            = FALSE
>    etc                  = No
>    nsttcouple           = -1
>    epc                  = No
>    epctype              = Isotropic
>    nstpcouple           = -1
>    tau_p                = 5
>    ref_p (3x3):
>       ref_p[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       ref_p[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       ref_p[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>    compress (3x3):
>       compress[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       compress[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       compress[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>    refcoord_scaling     = No
>    posres_com (3):
>       posres_com[0]= 0.00000e+00
>       posres_com[1]= 0.00000e+00
>       posres_com[2]= 0.00000e+00
>    posres_comB (3):
>       posres_comB[0]= 0.00000e+00
>       posres_comB[1]= 0.00000e+00
>       posres_comB[2]= 0.00000e+00
>    andersen_seed        = -1
>    rlist                = 1.1
>    rlistlong            = 1.1
>    rtpi                 = 0.05
>    coulombtype          = User
>    rcoulomb_switch      = 0
>    rcoulomb             = 1
>    vdwtype              = User
>    rvdw_switch          = 0
>    rvdw                 = 1
>    epsilon_r            = 1
>    epsilon_rf           = 1
>    tabext               = 1
>    implicit_solvent     = No
>    gb_algorithm         = Still
>    gb_epsilon_solvent   = 80
>    nstgbradii           = 1
>    rgbradii             = 2
>    gb_saltconc          = 0
>    gb_obc_alpha         = 1
>    gb_obc_beta          = 0.8
>    gb_obc_gamma         = 4.85
>    gb_dielectric_offset = 0.009
>    sa_algorithm         = Ace-approximation
>    sa_surface_tension   = 2.05016
>    DispCorr             = No
>    free_energy          = no
>    init_lambda          = 0
>    delta_lambda         = 0
>    n_foreign_lambda     = 0
>    sc_alpha             = 0
>    sc_power             = 0
>    sc_sigma             = 0.3
>    sc_sigma_min         = 0.3
>    nstdhdl              = 10
>    separate_dhdl_file   = yes
>    dhdl_derivatives     = yes
>    dh_hist_size         = 0
>    dh_hist_spacing      = 0.1
>    nwall                = 0
>    wall_type            = 9-3
>    wall_atomtype[0]     = -1
>    wall_atomtype[1]     = -1
>    wall_density[0]      = 0
>    wall_density[1]      = 0
>    wall_ewald_zfac      = 3
>    pull                 = no
>    disre                = No
>    disre_weighting      = Conservative
>    disre_mixed          = FALSE
>    dr_fc                = 1000
>    dr_tau               = 0
>    nstdisreout          = 100
>    orires_fc            = 0
>    orires_tau           = 0
>    nstorireout          = 100
>    dihre-fc             = 1000
>    em_stepsize          = 0.01
>    em_tol               = 1e-10
>    niter                = 20
>    fc_stepsize          = 0
>    nstcgsteep           = 1000000
>    nbfgscorr            = 10
>    ConstAlg             = Lincs
>    shake_tol            = 0.0001
>    lincs_order          = 4
>    lincs_warnangle      = 30
>    lincs_iter           = 1
>    bd_fric              = 0
>    ld_seed              = 1993
>    cos_accel            = 0
>    deform (3x3):
>       deform[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       deform[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       deform[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>    userint1             = 0
>    userint2             = 0
>    userint3             = 0
>    userint4             = 0
>    userreal1            = 0
>    userreal2            = 0
>    userreal3            = 0
>    userreal4            = 0
> grpopts:
>    nrdf:       57597
>    ref_t:           0
>    tau_t:           0
> anneal:          No
> ann_npoints:           0
>    acc:	           0           0           0
>    nfreeze:           N           N           N
>    energygrp_flags[  0]: 2 2
>    energygrp_flags[  1]: 2 2
>    efield-x:
>       n = 0
>    efield-xt:
>       n = 0
>    efield-y:
>       n = 0
>    efield-yt:
>       n = 0
>    efield-z:
>       n = 0
>    efield-zt:
>       n = 0
>    bQMMM                = FALSE
>    QMconstraints        = 0
>    QMMMscheme           = 0
>    scalefactor          = 1
> qm_opts:
>    ngQM                 = 0
> Table routines are used for coulomb: TRUE
> Table routines are used for vdw:     TRUE
> Cut-off's:   NS: 1.1   Coulomb: 1   LJ: 1
> System total charge: 0.000
> Read user tables from table_A_A.xvg with 501 data points.
> Tabscale = 50 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_A_B.xvg with 501 data points.
> Tabscale = 50 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_B_B.xvg with 501 data points.
> Tabscale = 50 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b0.xvg with 2501 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b1.xvg with 2501 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b5.xvg with 2501 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b12.xvg with 2496 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b17.xvg with 2496 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b19.xvg with 2501 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b40.xvg with 2496 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_a1.xvg with 901 data points.
> Read user tables from table_a2.xvg with 901 data points.
> Read user tables from table_a3.xvg with 901 data points.
> Read user tables from table_a4.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_a5.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_d6.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_d7.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_d8.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_d9.xvg with 181 data points.
> Configuring nonbonded kernels...
> Configuring standard C nonbonded kernels...
> Testing x86_64 SSE2 support... present.
>
>
> Initiating Low-Memory BFGS Minimizer
> Max number of connections per atom is 14
> Total number of connections is 267000
> Max number of graph edges per atom is 2
> Total number of graph edges is 38300
> Started Low-Memory BFGS Minimizer on node 0 Tue Apr 24 17:03:47 2012
>
> Low-Memory BFGS Minimizer:
>    Tolerance (Fmax)   =  1.00000e-10
>    Number of steps    =       100000
> Grid: 12 x 12 x 12 cells
>            Step           Time         Lambda
>               0        0.00000        0.00000
>
>    Energies (kJ/mol)
>      Tab. Bonds  Tab. Bonds NC    Tab. Angles      Tab. Dih.        LJ (SR)
>     4.13987e+03    3.14441e+04    2.31911e+04    3.37997e+04   -1.62435e+05
>    Coulomb (SR)      Potential Pressure (bar)
>     0.00000e+00   -6.98604e+04    0.00000e+00
>
> Using 10 BFGS correction steps.
>
>    F-max             =  2.17837e-01 on atom 15319
>    F-Norm            =  3.37657e-02
>
>            Step           Time         Lambda
>               0        0.00000        0.00000
>
>    Energies (kJ/mol)
>      Tab. Bonds  Tab. Bonds NC    Tab. Angles      Tab. Dih.        LJ (SR)
>     4.13987e+03    3.14441e+04    2.31911e+04    3.37997e+04   -1.62435e+05
>    Coulomb (SR)      Potential Pressure (bar)
>     0.00000e+00   -6.98604e+04    0.00000e+00
>
> ### md.log for 4.0.7 ###
>
>  :-)  /nfs/01/cwr0351/local_GMX4.0.7_d/bin/mdrun_d_mpi (double precision)  (-:
>
>
> ++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
> B. Hess and C. Kutzner and D. van der Spoel and E. Lindahl
> GROMACS 4: Algorithms for highly efficient, load-balanced, and scalable
> molecular simulation
> J. Chem. Theory Comput. 4 (2008) pp. 435-447
> -------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------
>
>
> ++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
> D. van der Spoel, E. Lindahl, B. Hess, G. Groenhof, A. E. Mark and H. J. C.
> Berendsen
> GROMACS: Fast, Flexible and Free
> J. Comp. Chem. 26 (2005) pp. 1701-1719
> -------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------
>
>
> ++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
> E. Lindahl and B. Hess and D. van der Spoel
> GROMACS 3.0: A package for molecular simulation and trajectory analysis
> J. Mol. Mod. 7 (2001) pp. 306-317
> -------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------
>
>
> ++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
> H. J. C. Berendsen, D. van der Spoel and R. van Drunen
> GROMACS: A message-passing parallel molecular dynamics implementation
> Comp. Phys. Comm. 91 (1995) pp. 43-56
> -------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------
>
> Input Parameters:
>    integrator           = l-bfgs
>    nsteps               = 100000
>    init_step            = 0
>    ns_type              = Grid
>    nstlist              = 10
>    ndelta               = 2
>    nstcomm              = 100
>    comm_mode            = Linear
>    nstlog               = 1
>    nstxout              = 1
>    nstvout              = 1
>    nstfout              = 1
>    nstenergy            = 1
>    nstxtcout            = 10
>    init_t               = 0
>    delta_t              = 0.003
>    xtcprec              = 1000
>    nkx                  = 0
>    nky                  = 0
>    nkz                  = 0
>    pme_order            = 4
>    ewald_rtol           = 1e-05
>    ewald_geometry       = 0
>    epsilon_surface      = 0
>    optimize_fft         = FALSE
>    ePBC                 = xyz
>    bPeriodicMols        = FALSE
>    bContinuation        = TRUE
>    bShakeSOR            = FALSE
>    etc                  = No
>    epc                  = No
>    epctype              = Isotropic
>    tau_p                = 5
>    ref_p (3x3):
>       ref_p[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       ref_p[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       ref_p[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>    compress (3x3):
>       compress[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       compress[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       compress[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>    refcoord_scaling     = No
>    posres_com (3):
>       posres_com[0]= 0.00000e+00
>       posres_com[1]= 0.00000e+00
>       posres_com[2]= 0.00000e+00
>    posres_comB (3):
>       posres_comB[0]= 0.00000e+00
>       posres_comB[1]= 0.00000e+00
>       posres_comB[2]= 0.00000e+00
>    andersen_seed        = -1
>    rlist                = 1.1
>    rtpi                 = 0.05
>    coulombtype          = User
>    rcoulomb_switch      = 0
>    rcoulomb             = 1
>    vdwtype              = User
>    rvdw_switch          = 0
>    rvdw                 = 1
>    epsilon_r            = 1
>    epsilon_rf           = 1
>    tabext               = 1
>    implicit_solvent     = No
>    gb_algorithm         = Still
>    gb_epsilon_solvent   = 80
>    nstgbradii           = 1
>    rgbradii             = 2
>    gb_saltconc          = 0
>    gb_obc_alpha         = 1
>    gb_obc_beta          = 0.8
>    gb_obc_gamma         = 4.85
>    sa_surface_tension   = 2.092
>    DispCorr             = No
>    free_energy          = no
>    init_lambda          = 0
>    sc_alpha             = 0
>    sc_power             = 0
>    sc_sigma             = 0.3
>    delta_lambda         = 0
>    nwall                = 0
>    wall_type            = 9-3
>    wall_atomtype[0]     = -1
>    wall_atomtype[1]     = -1
>    wall_density[0]      = 0
>    wall_density[1]      = 0
>    wall_ewald_zfac      = 3
>    pull                 = no
>    disre                = No
>    disre_weighting      = Conservative
>    disre_mixed          = FALSE
>    dr_fc                = 1000
>    dr_tau               = 0
>    nstdisreout          = 100
>    orires_fc            = 0
>    orires_tau           = 0
>    nstorireout          = 100
>    dihre-fc             = 1000
>    em_stepsize          = 0.01
>    em_tol               = 1e-10
>    niter                = 20
>    fc_stepsize          = 0
>    nstcgsteep           = 1000000
>    nbfgscorr            = 10
>    ConstAlg             = Lincs
>    shake_tol            = 0.0001
>    lincs_order          = 4
>    lincs_warnangle      = 30
>    lincs_iter           = 1
>    bd_fric              = 0
>    ld_seed              = 1993
>    cos_accel            = 0
>    deform (3x3):
>       deform[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       deform[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>       deform[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
>    userint1             = 0
>    userint2             = 0
>    userint3             = 0
>    userint4             = 0
>    userreal1            = 0
>    userreal2            = 0
>    userreal3            = 0
>    userreal4            = 0
> grpopts:
>    nrdf:       57597
>    ref_t:           0
>    tau_t:           0
> anneal:          No
> ann_npoints:           0
>    acc:	           0           0           0
>    nfreeze:           N           N           N
>    energygrp_flags[  0]: 2 2
>    energygrp_flags[  1]: 2 2
>    efield-x:
>       n = 0
>    efield-xt:
>       n = 0
>    efield-y:
>       n = 0
>    efield-yt:
>       n = 0
>    efield-z:
>       n = 0
>    efield-zt:
>       n = 0
>    bQMMM                = FALSE
>    QMconstraints        = 0
>    QMMMscheme           = 0
>    scalefactor          = 1
> qm_opts:
>    ngQM                 = 0
> Table routines are used for coulomb: TRUE
> Table routines are used for vdw:     TRUE
> Cut-off's:   NS: 1.1   Coulomb: 0   LJ: 1
> System total charge: 0.000
> Read user tables from table_A_A.xvg with 501 data points.
> Tabscale = 50 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_A_B.xvg with 501 data points.
> Tabscale = 50 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_B_B.xvg with 501 data points.
> Tabscale = 50 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b0.xvg with 2501 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b1.xvg with 2501 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b5.xvg with 2501 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b12.xvg with 2496 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b17.xvg with 2496 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b19.xvg with 2501 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_b40.xvg with 2496 data points.
> Tabscale = 500 points/nm
> Read user tables from table_a1.xvg with 901 data points.
> Read user tables from table_a2.xvg with 901 data points.
> Read user tables from table_a3.xvg with 901 data points.
> Read user tables from table_a4.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_a5.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_d6.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_d7.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_d8.xvg with 181 data points.
> Read user tables from table_d9.xvg with 181 data points.
> Configuring nonbonded kernels...
> Testing x86_64 SSE2 support... present.
>
>
> Initiating Low-Memory BFGS Minimizer
> Max number of connections per atom is 11
> Total number of connections is 209800
> Max number of graph edges per atom is 2
> Total number of graph edges is 38300
> Started Low-Memory BFGS Minimization on node 0 Thu Apr 26 10:10:05 2012
> Low-Memory BFGS Minimizer:
>    Tolerance (Fmax)   =  1.00000e-10
>    Number of steps    =       100000
> Grid: 12 x 12 x 12 cells
>            Step           Time         Lambda
>               0        0.00000        0.00000
>
>    Energies (kJ/mol)
>      Tab. Bonds  Tab. Bonds NC    Tab. Angles      Tab. Dih.        LJ (SR)
>     4.13987e+03    3.14441e+04    2.31911e+04    3.37997e+04   -1.62435e+05
>    Coulomb (SR)      Potential Pressure (bar)
>     0.00000e+00   -6.98604e+04   -5.12822e+02
>
> Using 10 BFGS correction steps.
>
>    F-max             =  2.17837e-01 on atom 15319
>    F-Norm            =  3.37657e-02
>
>            Step           Time         Lambda
>               0        0.00000        0.00000
>
>    Energies (kJ/mol)
>      Tab. Bonds  Tab. Bonds NC    Tab. Angles      Tab. Dih.        LJ (SR)
>     4.13987e+03    3.14441e+04    2.31911e+04    3.37997e+04   -1.62435e+05
>    Coulomb (SR)      Potential Pressure (bar)
>     0.00000e+00   -6.98604e+04   -5.12824e+02
>
>
>
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