[gmx-users] Blowing up

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Mon Aug 10 19:46:05 CEST 2015



On 8/10/15 1:42 PM, faride badalkhani wrote:
> Dear Victor,
>
> Thanks a lot for your answer. Could you introduce me a guidance for
> defining proper charge groups?
>

The error message provides guidelines on what to do.  With the Verlet scheme, 
charge groups are ignored.  Without a better description of what you're doing, 
what your .mdp settings are, etc. there's little point in guessing here.

-Justin

> Truly yours,
> Farideh
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Victor Rosas Garcia <rosas.victor at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> it could be, but it might just be easier to try redefining smaller charge
>> groups and run the dynamics again.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Victor
>>
>> 2015-08-09 2:16 GMT-05:00 faride badalkhani <farideh.khamseh at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am truing to do an MD simulation on dendrimeric structures. I can
>> perform
>>> all steps successfully, but I get a NOTE in all steps after Adding Ions
>> as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>> NOTE 2 [file topol.top]:
>>>    The largest charge group contains 20 atoms.
>>>    Since atoms only see each other when the centers of geometry of the
>>> charge
>>>    groups they belong to are within the cut-off distance, too large charge
>>>    groups can lead to serious cut-off artifacts.
>>>    For efficiency and accuracy, charge group should consist of a few
>> atoms.
>>>    For all-atom force fields use: CH3, CH2, CH, NH2, NH, OH, CO2, CO, etc.
>>>
>>> Finally at the production MD step I get a "X particles communicated to
>> PME
>>> node Y are more than a cell length out of the domain decomposition cell
>> of
>>> their charge group".
>>>
>>> Do you think is it because of the mentioned note?
>>>
>>> Truly yours,
>>> Farideh
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