[gmx-users] Extending simulation problem.

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/22/14, 8:49 AM, Dawid das wrote:
> Can you just have a quick look at this?
> When I run:
> tpbconv -s npt-md.tpr -extend 95000 -o npt-md.tpr
>
> to extend simulation by 95 ns this time I got this message at the end:
>
> Extending remaining runtime of by 95000 ps (now 50000000 steps)
> Writing statusfile with starting step          0 and length   50000000
> steps...
>                                   time      0.000 and length 100000.000 ps
>
>
> So it looks like new status file is written and it says that simulation
> will start from the very beginning or did I misunderstand something?
> However when I check state.cpt with gmxdump it looks fine:
>
> step = 2500000
> t = 5000.000000
>

All of this is expected.  Using tpbconv doesn't change the start time of the 
.tpr file.  It says "the new .tpr file has a new number of steps" and the 
starting step is determined by the use of a checkpoint file on the mdrun command 
line.

-Justin

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