[gmx-users] Gromacs 5.0.1 restart simulation

[Mark Abraham]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:43 PM, wh <signoreguidami at 163.com> wrote:

> >> Dear Gromacs Users,
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> >> Recently when I tried to restart a md simulation from previous one
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> >> using convert-tpr with version 5.0.1 , the task failed giving the error
> message:
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> >> X particles communicated to PME node Y are more than a cell length out
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> >> of the domain decomposition cell of their charge group
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> >> I tried several way to solve it, including modify the equilibration
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> >> setting as it said in the gromacs error page, and all failed. If I
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> >> just run one simulation for a long time, it will not crash, at least
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> >> can do further than the time point it crashed when using restart.
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> >>
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> >> Does anyone have any idea why this happen and how to solve it?  I used
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> >> the
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> >> syntax:
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> >> gmx convert-tpr -s input.tpr -f input.trr -e input.edr -o output.tpr
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> >> -extend
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> >> 10000
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> >> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated
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> >Do not supply .trr and .edr files; just increase the number of steps and
> continue from the existing checkpoint with mdrun -cpi.  What you're doing
> is
> based on ancient syntax that is no longer relevant.  I'm guessing that
> you're probably winding up with discontinuous states somehow.
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> >
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Extending_Simulations#Version_
> 4_and_Newer
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> >-Justin
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> Thank you so much for your timely reply, yet I tried mdrun -s input.tpr
> -cpi
> input.cpt -append
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> It still gave the same error message. Could it be a bug? Or I did something
> wrong?


Bug is possible but unlikely. We definitely don't have enough information
to tell because we've gotten half of it each time - what was the conversion
+ restart combination you actually used? Does the original run stay stable
if it is not interrupted?

Mark


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