[gmx-users] Dr.Lemkul's Umbrella Sampling Tutorial - grompp note on leap frog/Nose-Hoover

[Justin Lemkul]

On 11/3/14 7:37 PM, Agnivo Gosai wrote:
> Dear Users
>
> I am following the Umbrella Sampling tutorial by Dr. Lemkul. I am using
> GROMACS version 4.5.6.
>
> In step 6 of the tutorial where the umbrella sampling simulations are done
> for each of the extracted configurations based on COM distance sampling
> from 0.5 - 5.0 nm along z axis , I have 27 sets.
> For each set I need to do a short NPT equilibration and an Umbrella run.
> While running "grompp" for the 1st configuration before the NPT
> equilibration the terminal showed the following message :
>
> NOTE 1 [file md_umbrella.mdp]:
>    leapfrog does not yet support Nose-Hoover chains, nhchainlength reset to 1
>
> My question is how will this affect my simulations ?
>

It's an innocuous message.  There are inherent limitations in compatibility of 
various algorithms and options.  Notes are simply FYI.  Warnings and errors 
indicate problems.

-Justin

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