[gmx-users] Split Trajectory file into parts

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/29/15 9:10 AM, Johnny Lu wrote:
> Dear Users,
>
> Simulation writes to a Lustre file system (a distributed file system made
> of many hard drives).
> About 100 Gb was written in 1 hrs. After a while, gromacs 5.1 says it can't
> write the trajectory file.
> The file system still has lots of space. Not sure if that was because one
> of the many hard drives filled up.
>
> Is it possible to ask gromacs to automatically split the trajectory files
> into parts?

No.

> Or, I have to write a shell script to make gromacs restart the simulation
> every 15 minutes?
>

Yes.  Or, heed what grompp tells you about how much data will be generated and 
simply construct a very trivial loop to execute mdrun for N steps, invoke 
convert-tpr, mdrun -cpi -noappend, etc.

-Justin

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