[gmx-users] Barostat Selection

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/29/15 8:57 PM, Parker de Waal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently got into an interesting discussion regarding barostat selection for NPT equilibration and later NPT production runs and was wondering what the community thought on this issue.
>
> Specifically, for the initial NPT equilibrium, would it be acceptable to use the berendsen barostat (tau_p = 1.0 ) and then later switch to the Parrinello-Rahman barostat (tau_p = 5) for production, or would it be best to stick with berendsen (keep tau_p = 1.0 or increase to 5.0 to increase ns/day?)
>

Barostat relaxation time should have no effect on performance.  The Berendsen 
weak coupling algorithms do not produce correct distributions and they should 
not be used for production simulations.  The algorithm is good for 
equilibration, but shouldn't be used for much else.

-Justin

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