[gmx-users] topology in local?

[Justin Lemkul]

On 5/21/14, 5:22 AM, Nicola Staffolani wrote:
> Dear GROMACS user community,
>
> I have the following problem: I would like to let a simulation run on a
> computer where another simulation, prepared by another user, is already
> running; my simulation and the simulation of the other user need different
> topologies (I mean, for example, the files ffbonded.itp and ffnonbonded.itp
> files stored in /usr/share/gromacs/top/forcefield.ff are different; or, to
> make things more clear, let's suppose as a condition that user 1 needs to
> use charmm27.ff and user 2 gromos43a1.ff). Does anybody know of any
> solution where the number of computers is kept constant? What would happen,
> for example, if I would put my topology files inside my local working
> directory?
>

Once grompp is invoked, the force field files in $GMXLIB (or anywhere else, for 
that matter) are irrelevant; everything mdrun needs is in the .tpr file.

-Justin

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