[gmx-users] temperature problem

Lovika Moudgil lovikamoudgil at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 14:09:35 CEST 2015


Hi Justin... Yes I agree my system is behaving absurdly . But I am
wondering why !!I have done minimization without any error ..here is the
result ...
Steepest Descents converged to Fmax < 1000 in 1004 steps
Potential Energy  = -9.6667906e+05
Maximum force     =  9.7920349e+02 on atom 796
Norm of force     =  1.7943926e+01
... I have One gold slab ...with golp parameters ..and amino acid on it
...in box with water and Na , Cl ions ....Freezing is for gold  only....
System is not that big . And thing is temperature remain at the value (that
is 300K)  for few time after some time it start behaving weird . If system
is wrong why its working even for one step ??

Thanks and Regards
Lovika

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 6/4/15 8:52 AM, Lovika Moudgil wrote:
>
>> Hiii....Here is my .mdp file below  ...
>>
>> title        = OPLS Lysozyme NVT equilibration
>> define        = -DPOSRES    ; position restrain the protein
>> ; Run parameters
>> integrator    = md        ; leap-frog integrator
>> nsteps        = 2000000        ; 2 * 50000 = 100 ps
>> dt        = 0.001        ; 2 fs
>> ; Output control
>> nstxout        = 500        ; save coordinates every 1.0 ps
>> nstvout        = 500        ; save velocities every 1.0 ps
>> nstenergy    = 500        ; save energies every 1.0 ps
>> nstlog        = 500        ; update log file every 1.0 ps
>> nstxtcout               = 500           ; [steps] freq to write
>> coordinates
>> to xtc trajectory
>> xtc_precision           = 1000          ; [real] precision to write xtc
>> trajectory
>> comm_mode                = Linear
>> comm_grps               = Protein Non-Protein   ; group(s) for center of
>> mass motion removal
>> ; Bond parameters
>> constraint_algorithm        = lincs        ; holonomic constraints
>> constraints                = all-bonds        ; all bonds (even heavy
>> atom-H bonds) constrained
>> lincs_iter                = 1            ; accuracy of LINCS
>> lincs_order                = 4            ; also related to accuracy
>> ; 7.3.9 Neighbor Searching
>> cutoff-scheme           = Verlet
>> nstlist                 = 10             ; [steps] freq to update neighbor
>> list
>> ns_type                 = grid          ; method of updating neighbor list
>> pbc                     = xyz           ; periodic boundary conditions in
>> all directions
>> rlist                   = 1.0           ; [nm] cut-off distance for the
>> short-range neighbor list
>>
>> ; 7.3.10 Electrostatics
>> coulombtype             = PME           ; Particle-Mesh Ewald
>> electrostatics
>> rcoulomb                = 1.0           ; [nm] distance for Coulomb
>> cut-off
>>
>> ; 7.3.11 VdW
>> rvdw                    = 1.0           ; [nm] distance for LJ cut-off
>> DispCorr                = Ener      ; apply long range dispersion
>> corrections
>>
>> ; 7.3.13 Ewald
>> fourierspacing          = 0.12          ; [nm] grid spacing for FFT grid
>> when using PME
>> pme_order               = 4             ; interpolation order for PME, 4 =
>> cubic
>> ewald_rtol              = 1e-5          ; relative strength of
>> Ewald-shifted potential at rcoulomb
>> ; Temperature coupling is on
>> tcoupl        = nose-hoover                ; modified Berendsen thermostat
>> tc-grps        = Protein Non-Protein
>> tau_t        = 0.1   0.1       ; time constant, in ps
>> ref_t        = 300      300      ; reference temperature, one for each
>> group, in K
>> ; Pressure coupling is off
>> pcoupl        = no         ; no pressure coupling in NVT
>> ; Velocity generation
>> gen_vel        = yes        ; assign velocities from Maxwell distribution
>> gen_temp    = 300        ; temperature for Maxwell distribution
>> gen_seed    = -1        ; generate a random seed
>>
>> ; To keep au surface in place, freeze Au atoms.
>> ; The AU group has been defined via make_ndx
>> ; to contains all the AU atoms ('a AU').
>> freezegrps               = AUS AUB AUI
>> freezedim                = Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
>>
>>
>> And in one part of  log file.... temperature is getting high..without
>> error
>> ....and it keeps on increasing ...
>>
>> Energies (kJ/mol)
>>            Angle    Proper Dih. Ryckaert-Bell.          LJ-14
>>  Coulomb-14
>>      2.91339e+01    3.23884e-01    8.52437e+00    1.65299e+01
>> 2.68992e+02
>>          LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)   Coul. recip.
>> Potential
>>      5.70551e+05   -6.29186e+03   -8.96225e+05    4.42542e+03
>>  -3.27216e+05
>>      Kinetic En.   Total Energy  Conserved En.    *Temperature* Pres. DC
>> (bar)
>>      9.71936e+09    9.71903e+09    2.71970e+19   * 2.35145e+07*
>> 0.00000e+00
>>
>
> Ask yourself whether or not this is even reasonable.  A temperature of
> 10^7? That's 4000x hotter than the surface of the sun.  There's no way
> that's real. Your system is physically nonsensical.  You'll have to
> describe in complete detail what it is you're trying to do, but the
> combination of multiple comm-grps, freezing (which is a pretty massive
> perturbation in and of itself), restraints, etc. is quite complex and any
> number of things could be causing a problem.  It could be something as
> simple as insufficient minimization and/or bad starting coordinates in
> general, but it's a shot in the dark at this point.
>
> -Justin
>
>
>    Pressure (bar)   Constr. rmsd
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Lovika
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 6/4/15 12:39 AM, Lovika Moudgil wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi...Justin.... Thanks for explaining  ...... I just want to  ask could
>>>> there be any other reasons too?? ...Because I have tried it with PME
>>>> too...and still I am not getting desired temperature ....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  You'll have to provide a full .mdp file and quantitative evidence of
>>> what
>>> you're seeing.  There are plenty of things that could be going on, but
>>> I'm
>>> not going just blindly guess.
>>>
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>> Lovika
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/3/15 3:46 AM, Lovika Moudgil wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Hi...thanks for reply Peter and Mark ....I tried with temperature
>>>>>
>>>>>> coupling
>>>>>> . But things are still same ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi ... Mark would you like to explain this factor to me ??
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Using a plain cutoff in the condensed phase is outdated methodology
>>>>>>
>>>>> that
>>>>> is very inaccurate.  Cutoff artifacts lead to accumulation of heat in
>>>>> the
>>>>> system.  Use something sensible like PME.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Justin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    Thanks and Regards
>>>>>
>>>>>  Lovika
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Mark Abraham <
>>>>>> mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Runaway heating is the only useful feature of cutoff electrostatics.
>>>>>>> Use
>>>>>>> an
>>>>>>> actual model physics.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:19 AM Peter Kroon <p.c.kroon at rug.nl>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  On 02/06/15 09:43, Lovika Moudgil wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   Hi everyone
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am having some problem in my md run .In my system temperature of
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   system
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   is abruptly increasing .I have done nvt for 50 picoseconds ..nd
>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   using
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   it for further md simulation .I am not getting any error for this
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> temperature increase .....But when I plot temperature graph ,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   temperature
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   is not same as nvt and is very high  in md .I am having gold slab
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   amino
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   acid in my system . Mdp file for md run is below ....Is their any
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> error
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   in
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   my mdp file ???what could be the reason for this ???Please suggest
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ....
>>>>>>>>> ; Run parameters
>>>>>>>>> integrator    = md        ; leap-frog integrator
>>>>>>>>> nsteps        = 30000000        ; 2 * 50000 = 100 ps
>>>>>>>>> dt        = 0.001        ; 2 fs
>>>>>>>>> ; Output control
>>>>>>>>> ; Output control
>>>>>>>>> nstxout        = 500        ; save coordinates every 1.0 ps
>>>>>>>>> nstvout        = 500        ; save velocities every 1.0 ps
>>>>>>>>> nstenergy    = 500        ; save energies every 1.0 ps
>>>>>>>>> nstlog        = 500        ; update log file every 1.0 ps
>>>>>>>>> nstxtcout               = 500           ; [steps] freq to write
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   coordinates
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   to xtc trajectory
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> xtc_precision           = 1000          ; [real] precision to write
>>>>>>>>> xtc
>>>>>>>>> trajectory
>>>>>>>>> xtc_grps                = System        ; group(s) to write to xtc
>>>>>>>>> trajectory
>>>>>>>>> energygrps              = System        ; group(s) to write to
>>>>>>>>> energy
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   file
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   ; Bond parameters
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> constraint_algorithm        = lincs        ; holonomic constraints
>>>>>>>>> constraints                = all-bonds        ; all bonds (even
>>>>>>>>> heavy
>>>>>>>>> atom-H bonds) constrained
>>>>>>>>> lincs_iter                = 1            ; accuracy of LINCS
>>>>>>>>> lincs_order                = 4            ; also related to
>>>>>>>>> accuracy
>>>>>>>>> ; Neighborsearching
>>>>>>>>> cutoff-scheme       = Verlet
>>>>>>>>> ns_type            = grid        ; search neighboring grid cells
>>>>>>>>> nstlist            = 10        ; 20 fs, largely irrelevant with
>>>>>>>>> Verlet
>>>>>>>>> rcoulomb        = 1.0        ; short-range electrostatic cutoff (in
>>>>>>>>> nm)
>>>>>>>>> rvdw            = 1.0        ; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in
>>>>>>>>> nm)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ; Electrostatics
>>>>>>>>> coulombtype         = cut-off
>>>>>>>>> pme_order        = 4        ; cubic interpolation
>>>>>>>>> fourierspacing        = 0.12    ; grid spacing for FFT
>>>>>>>>> ; Temperature coupling is on
>>>>>>>>> tcoupl        = nose-hoover                ; modified Berendsen
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   thermostat
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   tc-grps        = Protein AUS AUB AUI SOL NA CL    ; two coupling
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   groups -
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   more accurate
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  tau_t        = 0.1   0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1  0.1         ; time
>>>>>>>>> constant,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   in ps
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   ref_t        = 300     300 300 300 300 300  300        ; reference
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> temperature, one for each group, in K
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   You have too many temperature coupling groups. (What Not To Do on
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Thermostats)
>>>>>>>> I'd stick to one for proteins, and one for the rest.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   ; Pressure coupling is off
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> pcoupl        = no         ; no pressure coupling in NVT
>>>>>>>>> ; Periodic boundary conditions
>>>>>>>>> pbc        = xyz            ; 3-D PBC
>>>>>>>>> ; Dispersion correction
>>>>>>>>> DispCorr    = EnerPres    ; account for cut-off vdW scheme
>>>>>>>>> ; Velocity generation
>>>>>>>>> ; Velocity generation
>>>>>>>>> gen_vel        = yes        ; assign velocities from Maxwell
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   distribution
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   gen_temp    = 300        ; temperature for Maxwell distribution
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  gen_seed    = -1        ; generate a random seed
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ; To keep au surface in place, freeze Au atoms.
>>>>>>>>> ; The AU group has been defined via make_ndx
>>>>>>>>> ; to contains all the AU atoms ('a AU').
>>>>>>>>> freezegrps               = AUS AUB AUI
>>>>>>>>> freezedim                = Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
>>>>>>>>> comm_mode                = None
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks and Reagrds
>>>>>>>>> Lovika
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  Peter
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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