[gmx-users] There is no error message but the dynamic don´t show the correct number of frames

Mishelle Oña samimishu at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 30 00:03:27 CET 2015


I am looking for the energy of solvation. The g_mmpbsa tool could help me for it ?

> To: gmx-users at gromacs.org
> From: jalemkul at vt.edu
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:38:58 -0400
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] There is no error message but the dynamic don´t show the correct number of frames
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/29/15 6:21 PM, Mishelle Oña wrote:
> > I attached the .mdp file I usedCould you tell me if there is a better form to
> 
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> > calculate the free energy of my polimer?And how can I do normal convergence
> 
> I would run a much longer simulation (20 ns certainly isn't enough to sample the 
> conformational ensemble of such a polymer) and look into MM/PBSA type calculations.
> 
> > checks of the dynamics?
> 
> What you analyze depends on what you're after.
> 
> -Justin
> 
> >
> >> To: gmx-users at gromacs.org From: jalemkul at vt.edu Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015
> >> 18:11:20 -0400 Subject: Re: [gmx-users] There is no error message but the
> >> dynamic don´t show the correct number of frames
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/29/15 6:08 PM, Mishelle Oña wrote:
> >>> Well, I am trying to calculate the Solvation free energy of my molecule,
> >>> I am following the Hands-on tutorial Solvation free energy of ethanol  of
> >>> Sander Pronk. Using trjconv I cut one frame from this trajectory and make
> >>> all the steps of the tutorial. When I do  g_bar to calculate the free
> >>> energy there was an error:WARNING: Some of these results violate the
> >>> Second Law of Thermodynamics:
> >>>
> >>> This is can be the result of severe undersampling, or (more likely)
> >>>
> >>> there is something wrong with the simulations. I am not sure why this
> >>> error come from. Could you tell me if I should redo the dynamic? or what
> >>> is the most suitable answer for this error.
> >>
> >> I doubt you'll be able to get a properly converged answer for a polymer of
> >> that size with these free energy methods.  Without seeing a full .mdp file,
> >> there's not much to go on.  You should also do normal convergence checks of
> >> the dynamics.
> >>
> >> -Justin
> >>
> >>> Thanks a lotMishelle
> >>>
> >>>> To: gmx-users at gromacs.org From: jalemkul at vt.edu Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015
> >>>> 17:48:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [gmx-users] There is no error message but
> >>>> the dynamic don´t show the correct number of frames
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/29/15 5:46 PM, Mishelle Oña wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Justin, Thanks for your reply. I used gmxcheck to verify the
> >>>>> trajectory and it didn´t have errors. I got this: Item        #frames
> >>>>> Timestep (ps)Step         40001    0.5Time         40001    0.5Lambda
> >>>>> 40001    0.5Coords       40001    0.5Velocities   40001    0.5Forces
> >>>>> 0Box          40001    0.5 I am not sure if the "Forces" item is
> >>>>> correct or not. Could you tell me why it is 0 ?
> >>>>
> >>>> You have nstfout = 0 in your .mdp file.  Only the data you request are
> >>>> saved.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Justin
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thanks Mishelle
> >>>>>> To: gmx-users at gromacs.org From: jalemkul at vt.edu Date: Thu, 29 Oct
> >>>>>> 2015 16:52:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [gmx-users] There is no error
> >>>>>> message but the dynamic don´t show the correct number of frames
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 10/29/15 4:50 PM, Mishelle Oña wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi!I am simulating a polimer of Polylactic acid with 30 monomers
> >>>>>>> in a water system. For equilibrate the system I have made NVT,
> >>>>>>> NPT and Process dynamics. The fiinal dynamic should have 40 000
> >>>>>>> frames but when I load it in VMD it has only 12 186 frames. Also
> >>>>>>> the confout.gro file that result from the dynamic
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> VMD probably ran out of memory.  What it thinks is there doesn't
> >>>>>> necessarily reflect reality.  Use gmxcheck on the trajectory to
> >>>>>> verify its contents.  Then try stripping out waters with trjconv
> >>>>>> and loading that in VMD.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -Justin
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> shows the polimer out of the box. I tried to center the polimer.
> >>>>>>> At the end of the simultation this message appeared: Reading file
> >>>>>>> topol.tpr, VERSION 4.5.5 (single precision)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Starting 32 threads
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Making 3D domain decomposition 8 x 2 x 2
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> WARNING: This run will generate roughly 8233 Mb of data
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> starting mdrun 'UNITED ATOM STRUCTURE FOR MOLECULE 3M9 in water'
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 10000000 steps, 20000.0 ps.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> NOTE: Turning on dynamic load balancing
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Writing final coordinates.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Average load imbalance: 7.6 %
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Part of the total run time spent waiting due to load imbalance:
> >>>>>>> 1.7 %
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Steps where the load balancing was limited by -rdd, -rcon and/or
> >>>>>>> -dds: X 5 % Y 9 % Z 14 %
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Parallel run - timing based on wallclock.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> NODE (s)   Real (s)      (%)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Time:   9229.145   9229.145 100.0
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 2h33:49
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> (Mnbf/s)   (GFlops)   (ns/day) (hour/ns)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Performance: 1786.838     66.381    187.233 0.128
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> gcq#247: "Let's Unzip And Let's Unfold" (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I don´t know if there is any error in the dynamic
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Then I opened the md.log file and in some steps there was this
> >>>>>>> line:DD  load balancing is limited by minimum cell size in
> >>>>>>> dimension X YDD  step 9998749 vol min/aver 0.625! load imb.:
> >>>>>>> force  6.3% Please could anyone help me with an idea of what is
> >>>>>>> happening? The previous simulation (NPT) doesn´t have this
> >>>>>>> messages. Thanks a lot Mishelle
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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