[gmx-users] simultaneous runs

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/5/15 1:10 AM, mah maz wrote:
> Dear all,
> I performed 2 runs one after the other. Then, I performed those 2 runs
> simultaneously(no special commands were applied, I just used different
> terminals with mdrun -v command) but in different directories. Results
> (like msd and energies) were expected to be nearly the same. but they are
> completely different. Does it mean that we cant perform several runs
> simultaneously?

Independent runs have no effect on each other.  All you're seeing is the random 
nature of MD.

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Reproducibility

-Justin

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