AW: [gmx-users] Not able to continue with Equilibration

Rausch, Felix frausch at ipb-halle.de
Thu Mar 29 11:40:14 CEST 2012


Hello,

The results of the energy minimization look reasonable. Nevertheless, you should (visually) check your equilibration starting structure for problems (e.g. clashes that could not be solved by EM). It would be a good idea to concentrate on the atom numbers given in the error messages.

To prevent the "exploding" system during equilibration, reducing the time step may be a good idea. Or you could start with a short NVT run first to equilibrate the temperature before switching to NPT. Furthermore, the coupling of ions in a single thermostat group is in general not a good idea (search the mailing list for many discussions about this topic).

Good luck.

Von: gmx-users-bounces at gromacs.org [mailto:gmx-users-bounces at gromacs.org] Im Auftrag von Hendry
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 11:25
An: Discussion list for GROMACS users
Betreff: [gmx-users] Not able to continue with Equilibration

Hi,

I am using Gromacs 4.5.4. After successful minimization by SD, I continued with equilibration step but I got the below errors. I tried many times with different parameters but the problem still persists. I have given errors and md parameters of equilibration step below. I have also provided my minimization output at the end. Could you provide some suggestions what went wrong?.

Many thanks

Sincerely
Hendry

Errors:
Warning: 1-4 interaction between 2969 and 2974 at distance 5.543 which is larger than the 1-4 table size 2.400 nm
These are ignored for the rest of the simulation
This usually means your system is exploding,
if not, you should increase table-extension in your mdp file
or with user tables increase the table size

Step 1, time 0.002 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
rms 92.242942, max 9194.071289 (between atoms 3025 and 3024)
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
 atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
   2987   2973  106.3    1.3892   7.3433      0.1530
   2974   2973  174.8    1.1940   7.7482      0.1530
   2975   2974   79.9    0.1865   1.4460      0.1530
   2978   2975   98.5    0.1423   0.6164      0.1390
   2982   2978   86.1    0.1421   0.6512      0.1390
   2979   2978   89.8    0.1114   5.2456      0.1090
   2989   2987  132.2    0.1781   2.6697      0.1330
   2988   2987  142.2    0.2284   2.7180      0.1230
   2971   2969   62.9    7.0921   3.5084      0.1330
   2970   2969   88.1    6.8598   4.7791      0.1230
   2973   2971  120.6    2.8109   8.8274      0.1470
   2972   2971  165.6    2.0293   6.9953      0.1000
   3016   3013  103.1    0.5628  65.6450      0.1390
   3014   3013   39.0    0.3331   5.0018      0.1330
   3017   3014   81.6    0.1827  57.9252      0.1330
   3015   3014   77.9    0.0752   6.3613      0.1090
   3020   3016   81.3    2.2255  79.7378      0.1390
   3019   3016  100.9    0.4862  54.4883      0.1390
   3019   3017   79.3    0.1679  57.8415      0.1330
   3018   3017   94.5    0.1686  66.3440      0.1000
   3022   3019   87.7    0.5657   7.7539      0.1390
   3026   3022  104.5    0.8085  54.9923      0.1390
   3023   3022   87.4    0.6108   5.0641      0.1090
   2968   2964  174.1    1.5617   5.1413      0.1470
   2965   2964   59.5    5.2178   4.0658      0.1470
   2969   2965   35.5    7.6693   2.9000      0.1530
   2966   2965  137.3    5.3225   4.6157      0.1530
   2967   2966  150.3    1.6016   1.7332      0.1530
   2968   2967   72.4    0.1685   1.8310      0.1530
   3026   3024   94.8    0.8572  96.6156      0.1390
   3025   3024   89.9    0.6811 1002.2628      0.1090
   3027   3026  108.0    1.1638  47.5384      0.1090
   2991   2989  138.2    0.2045   0.6556      0.1470
   2990   2989  157.0    0.1236   0.7213      0.1000
   2998   2991   89.9    0.1961   0.9471      0.1530
   2992   2991   79.5    0.1931   0.5434      0.1530
   2993   2992   49.8    0.1577   0.1862      0.1530
   3000   2998   84.9    0.1463   0.5492      0.1330
   2999   2998   83.3    0.1346   0.5372      0.1230
   3002   3000   44.2    0.1535   0.2150      0.1470
   3003   3002   31.6    0.1548   0.1834      0.1530
   3009   3007   62.4    0.1507   0.3181      0.1330
   3008   3007   44.1    0.1280   0.1578      0.1230
   3011   3009   80.3    0.2401   1.9894      0.1470
   3010   3009   82.9    0.1141   0.3157      0.1000
   3028   3011   85.2    0.2391   1.9233      0.1530
   3012   3011   97.9    0.3034   4.9831      0.1530
   3013   3012   82.4    0.3759   7.3991      0.1530
   3024   3020   85.6    2.4674  98.3412      0.1390
   3021   3020   81.0    1.2452  66.1375      0.1090
   3030   3028   88.9    0.1492   0.2673      0.1330
   3029   3028   61.2    0.1379   0.2407      0.1230
  49372  49371   89.5    0.1000 221.0566      0.1000
  49373  49371   92.4    0.1000 170.7231      0.1000
   2956   2954  153.4    0.1550   3.5621      0.1470
   2955   2954  135.5    0.1246   0.8967      0.1000
   2962   2956   76.6    0.7151   5.0532      0.1530
   2957   2956  178.7    0.1220   3.9773      0.1530
   2958   2957  155.0    0.2036   1.2639      0.1530
   2961   2959   34.5    0.1265   0.1186      0.1250
   2960   2959   30.4    0.1264   0.1346      0.1250
   2964   2962  114.9    1.7422   7.9205      0.1330
   2963   2962  156.9    0.4832   6.1127      0.1230
  53158  53157   90.0    0.1000   0.1575      0.1000
  53159  53157   90.0    0.1000   0.1747      0.1000
  53386  53385   90.0    0.1000   0.1537      0.1000
  53387  53385   56.5    0.1000   0.0962      0.1000
   2954   2952   68.7    0.1615   0.7870      0.1330

Back Off! I just backed up step1b_n2.pdb to ./#step1b_n2.pdb.1#

Back Off! I just backed up step1c_n2.pdb to ./#step1c_n2.pdb.1#
Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates

-------------------------------------------------------
Program mdrun, VERSION 4.5.4
Source code file: pme.c, line: 538

Fatal error:
10 particles communicated to PME node 2 are more than 2/3 times the cut-off out of the domain decomposition cell of their charge group in dimension x.
This usually means that your system is not well equilibrated.
For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
-------------------------------------------------------

"They Were So Quiet About It" (Pixies)

Error on node 2, will try to stop all the nodes
Halting parallel program mdrun on CPU 2 out of 4

gcq#37: "They Were So Quiet About It" (Pixies)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 2 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
with errorcode -1.

NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on
exactly when Open MPI kills them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mpirun has exited due to process rank 2 with PID 30681 on
node ymu039-107 exiting without calling "finalize". This may
have caused other processes in the application to be
terminated by signals sent by mpirun (as reported here).

Equilibration parameters
title               =  TM1 in a POPC bilayer at 100K
cpp               =  /lib/cpp
integrator       =  md
define            =  -DPO1000
; Output
dt                  =  0.002   ; ps !
nsteps            =  100000 ; total 200 ps.
nstcomm         =  1
nstxout            =  5000
nstvout            =  5000
nstfout             =  0
nstlog              =  500
nstenergy        =  500
nstxtcout          =  500
xtc_precision    =  1000
; Electrostatics and VdW
nstlist              =  5
pbc                =  xyz
rlist                =  1.2
coulombtype         =  PME
rcoulomb            =  1.2
fourierspacing        =  0.16
pme_order            =  4
rvdw                 =  1.4
constraints          =  all-bonds
optimize_fft         =  yes
constraint-algorithm =  lincs
lincs-order          =  4
lincs_iter           =  1
; berendsen temperature coupling
Tcoupl               =  berendsen
tc-grps              =  Protein POPC SOL  CL
tau_t                =  0.1     0.1  0.1  0.1
ref_t                =  100     100  100  100
; Energy monitoring
energygrps           =  Protein POPC SOL CL
; Isotropic pressure coupling
pcoupl               =  parrinello-rahman
pcoupltype           =  semiisotropic
tau_p                =  1.0
compressibility      =  4.5e-5    4.5e-5
ref_p                =  1.0 1.0
; Generate velocity is on 100K
gen_vel              = yes
gen_temp             = 100.0
gen_seed             = 173529

SD minimization ouput:
Steepest Descents converged to Fmax < 1000 in 23239 steps
Potential Energy  = -1.0507182e+06
Maximum force   =  9.8500549e+02 on atom 5087
Norm of force    =  2.4736889e+01
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