[gmx-users] md-vv run with the Nose-Hoover thermostat crashed..

Yu Ogawa ayogwa at gmail.com
Fri May 23 21:34:06 CEST 2014


Dear Justin,

Thank you very much for your advice.
Okay, I will try according to your procedure.

Yu


2014-05-23 19:48 GMT+02:00 Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>:

>
>
> On 5/23/14, 1:26 PM, Yu Ogawa wrote:
>
>> This is my mdp file.
>>
>> ;define              =  -DFLEX_SPC
>> constraints          = none
>> ;constraint_algorithm = LINCS
>> integrator          =  md
>> dt                  =  0.0005  ;ps !
>> nsteps              =  100000000 ; total 50 ns.
>> nstcomm             =  2
>> nstxout             =  10000
>> nstvout             =  10000
>> nstfout             =  0
>> nstlog              =  10000
>> nstenergy           =  10000
>> nstlist             =  5
>> ns_type             =  grid
>> coulombtype         =  PME
>> rlist               =  0.9
>> rcoulomb            =  0.9
>> rvdw                =  0.9
>> ; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in two groups
>> Tcoupl              =  nose-hoover
>> tau_t               =  0.1
>>
>> tc-grps    =  GLC
>> ref_t               =  5
>> annealing           =  single
>> annealing_npoints   =  109
>> annealing_time      =  0 200 800 1000 1600 ... 41200 41800 42000 42600
>> 42800
>> annealing_temp      =  5 20 20 40 40 ... 40 40 20 20  0
>>
>> Pcoupl              =  MTTK
>> tau_p               =  0.1
>> pcoupltype          =  anisotropic
>> compressibility     =  1e-5 1e-5 1e-7 1e-5 1e-5 1e-5
>> ref_p               =  1.0 1.0 1.0 0 0 0
>> gen_vel             = yes
>> gen_temp = 5
>> gen_seed            =  173529
>> pbc = xyz
>> periodic_molecules  = yes
>> DispCorr            = EnerPres
>> optimize_fft        = yes
>>
>>
> Generating new velocities with Nose-Hoover can be very unstable; grompp
> should have thrown a warning about this.  You should equilibrate for a
> while at the starting temperature, then pass the .cpt file from the
> equilibration to the annealing run to preserve the previous ensemble.
>  Re-generating velocities negates any equilibration done previously, and
> whether or not the simulation works is, at that point, a bit of a coin-flip.
>
> -Justin
>
>
>
>> 2014-05-23 19:07 GMT+02:00 Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 5/23/14, 1:02 PM, Yu Ogawa wrote:
>>>
>>>  Sorry for my poor explanation. I tried to simulate a temperature rising
>>>> process from 0 K to 500 K.
>>>> At first I did a simulation with gen_vel=no, and the temperature was
>>>> just
>>>> around 3 to 5 K and never rose up. then I tried to give a velocities
>>>> with
>>>> gen_temp though I don't know if it's correct or not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  You'll need to post complete .mdp files of whatever it is you're doing.
>>>   Trying to provide help based on fragmented information is very hard,
>>> and
>>> it could be a simple matter of some incorrect settings, but we can't
>>> tell.
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2014-05-23 18:42 GMT+02:00 Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>   What has gen_temp to do with it? You sound like you're doing an
>>>>
>>>>> equilibration, then generating velocities at gen_temp, then running
>>>>> with
>>>>> a
>>>>> thermostat with a different ref_t from gen_temp. Why?
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Yu Ogawa <ayogwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Dear Mark,
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At the very last part of the log file I can find outputs at 0.0 ps,
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> nothing more below.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Have you equilibrated your system first? Does another integrator or
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  thermostat work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, my mdrun program works with the other inputs, and I think the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  initial
>>>>>
>>>>>  structure is equilibrated enough because I can run a NPT simulation
>>>>>> properly with this structure file with md integrator and berendsen
>>>>>> thermostat.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I also tried the similar calculation with md integrator and
>>>>>> Nose-Hoover.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  In
>>>>>
>>>>>  this case I could start running the simulation, but the temperature
>>>>>> was
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  not
>>>>>
>>>>>  controlled, and it stayed around the value of gen_temp.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> Yu
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2014-05-23 16:33 GMT+02:00 Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   First, find something out. Does the installation work for any other
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> simulation? What does the log file say? Have you equilibrated your
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  system
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  first? Does another integrator or thermostat work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Yu Ogawa <ayogwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Hello gmx-users,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I tried to run a simulation to calculate a specific heat capacity of
>>>>>>>> infinite molecular crystal with the md-vv integrator and Nose-Hoover
>>>>>>>> thermostat on ver 4.6,
>>>>>>>> but it crashed immediately with only the message of Segmentation
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  fault.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anyone have a similar experience or any good ideas for this
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  problems?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I would appreciate very much if somebody gives any comments on this
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  matter.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Thank you,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yu
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yu OGAWA, PhD
>>>>>>>> Cermav-CNRS, Grenoble, France
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