[gmx-users] Error while running protein-carbohydrate simulation

Evan Lowry evanwlowry at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 02:09:17 CEST 2016


Can you give me more details about the system? 100 ps is very short and may
not be adequate.

Evan L.
On Jul 10, 2016 5:22 PM, "Deep Bhattacharya" <
deep.bhattacharya1991 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Evan,
> One more question,
> Do I also increase the equilibration time from 100ps to 200ps? Will that
> help along with the 1fs time step?
>
> Sincerely,
> Deep
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 10, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Evan Lowry <evanwlowry at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I usually set tau-t=2.0 and tau-p=6.0  for most of my bulk fluid systems.
> > It really depends on what you are simulating so just be sure to check the
> > temperature and pressure to ensure that they are remaining constant and
> > within your desired tolerances.
> >
> > I think you may have to change your pressure algorithm to Berendsen if
> you
> > are using the Nose-Hoover thermostat, but definitely read about that in
> the
> > gromacs manual. Nose-Hoover usually produces an accurate thermodynamic
> > ensemble which is valuable if you are doing anything with energies.
> >
> > Evan L.
> > On Jul 10, 2016 5:00 PM, "Deep Bhattacharya" <hypergenetics at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you Evan for your response.
> >> What time would you suggest for the coupling time for temperature and
> >> pressure? Yes I will use the Nose-Hoover thermostat and see how the
> >> simulation goes.
> >> So you mean to change like this
> >>
> >>
> >> ; Temperature coupling   =
> >>
> >> tcoupl                   = nose-hoover
> >>
> >> ; Groups to couple separately =
> >>
> >> tc-grps                  = PROTEIN SOL_Na
> >>
> >> ; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K) =
> >>
> >> tau-t                      = 0.5 0.5
> >>
> >> ref-t                       = 300 300
> >>
> >> ; Pressure coupling      =
> >>
> >> Pcoupl                   = parrinello-rahman
> >>
> >> Pcoupltype            = isotropic
> >>
> >> ; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar) =
> >>
> >> tau-p                     = 5.0
> >>
> >> compressibility      = 4.5E-5
> >>
> >> ref-p                      = 1.0
> >>
> >> Awaiting your response
> >> Thank you.
> >>
> >>
> >> Deep
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Evan Lowry <evanwlowry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Try running with a 1 fs time step in stead of 2 fs. Also view your
> >>> trajectory to see if anything is messed up. Try re-minimizing as well.
> If
> >>> that doesn't work, you could change the coupling time for the
> temperature
> >>> and pressure.
> >>>
> >>> On another note, why not use the Nose-Hoover thermostat? It may be more
> >>> accurate for the energies in your system.
> >>>
> >>> Best of luck,
> >>>
> >>> Evan L.
> >>> On Jul 10, 2016 4:45 PM, "Deep Bhattacharya" <hypergenetics at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>> I am trying to simulate the system mentioned but its failing showing
> >> this
> >>>> error message,
> >>>> WARNING: Listed nonbonded interaction between particles 746 and 751
> >>>> at distance 3f which is larger than the table limit 3f nm.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is likely either a 1,4 interaction, or a listed interaction
> inside
> >>>> a smaller molecule you are decoupling during a free energy
> calculation.
> >>>> Since interactions at distances beyond the table cannot be computed,
> >>>> they are skipped until they are inside the table limit again. You will
> >>>> only see this message once, even if it occurs for several
> interactions.
> >>>>
> >>>> IMPORTANT: This should not happen in a stable simulation, so there is
> >>>> probably something wrong with your system. Only change the
> >>> table-extension
> >>>> distance in the mdp file if you are really sure that is the reason.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> Program mdrun, VERSION 4.6.5
> >>>> Source code file: /util/src/gromacs/gromacs-4.6.5/src/mdlib/pme.c,
> >> line:
> >>>> 851
> >>>>
> >>>> Fatal error:
> >>>> 1 particles communicated to PME node 13 are more than 2/3 times the
> >>> cut-off
> >>>> out of the domain decomposition cell of their charge group in
> dimension
> >>> y.
> >>>> This usually means that your system is not well equilibrated.
> >>>> For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the
> >>> GROMACS
> >>>> website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> "Jede der Scherben spiegelt das Licht" (Wir sind Helden)
> >>>>
> >>>> Error on node 13, will try to stop all the nodes
> >>>> Halting parallel program mdrun on CPU 13 out of 16
> >>>>
> >>>> gcq#330: "Jede der Scherben spiegelt das Licht" (Wir sind Helden)
> >>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 13 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
> >>>> with errorcode -1.
> >>>>
> >>>> NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.
> >>>> You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on
> >>>> exactly when Open MPI kills them.
> >>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> mpirun has exited due to process rank 13 with PID 117399 on
> >>>> node c0323 exiting improperly. There are two reasons this could occur:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. this process did not call "init" before exiting, but others in
> >>>> the job did. This can cause a job to hang indefinitely while it waits
> >>>> for all processes to call "init". By rule, if one process calls
> "init",
> >>>> then ALL processes must call "init" prior to termination.
> >>>>
> >>>> 2. this process called "init", but exited without calling "finalize".
> >>>> By rule, all processes that call "init" MUST call "finalize" prior to
> >>>> exiting or it will be considered an "abnormal termination"
> >>>>
> >>>> This may have caused other processes in the application to be
> >>>> terminated by signals sent by mpirun (as reported here).
> >>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> Here is my .mdp file
> >>>> title       = CD44 deHA_sulf_red complex MD simulation
> >>>> ; Run parameters
> >>>> integrator  = md        ; leap-frog integrator
> >>>> nsteps      = 5000000    ; 2 * 5000000 = 10000 ps (10 ns)
> >>>> dt          = 0.002     ; 2 fs
> >>>> ; Output control
> >>>> nstxout             = 50000         ; suppress .trr output
> >>>> nstvout             = 50000         ; suppress .trr output
> >>>> nstenergy           = 50000      ; save energies every 100.0 ps
> >>>> nstlog              = 50000      ; update log file every 100.0 ps
> >>>> compressed-x-grps   = System
> >>>> energygrps          = Protein LIG
> >>>> ; Bond parameters
> >>>> continuation    = yes           ; first dynamics run
> >>>> 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        = 1.4       ; short-range electrostatic cutoff (in nm)
> >>>> rvdw            = 1.4       ; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in nm)
> >>>> ; Electrostatics
> >>>> coulombtype     = PME       ; Particle Mesh Ewald for long-range
> >>>> electrostatics
> >>>> pme_order       = 4         ; cubic interpolation
> >>>> fourierspacing  = 0.16      ; grid spacing for FFT
> >>>> ; Temperature coupling
> >>>> tcoupl      = V-rescale                     ; modified Berendsen
> >>> thermostat
> >>>> tc-grps     = Protein_LIG Water_and_ions    ; two coupling groups -
> >> more
> >>>> accurate
> >>>> tau_t       = 0.1   0.1                     ; time constant, in ps
> >>>> ref_t       = 300   300                     ; reference temperature,
> >> one
> >>>> for each group, in K
> >>>> ; Pressure coupling
> >>>> pcoupl      = Parrinello-Rahman             ; pressure coupling is on
> >> for
> >>>> NPT
> >>>> pcoupltype  = isotropic                     ; uniform scaling of box
> >>>> vectors
> >>>> tau_p       = 2.0                           ; time constant, in ps
> >>>> ref_p       = 1.0                           ; reference pressure, in
> >> bar
> >>>> compressibility = 4.5e-5                    ; isothermal
> >> compressibility
> >>> of
> >>>> water, bar^-1
> >>>> ; Periodic boundary conditions
> >>>> pbc         = xyz       ; 3-D PBC
> >>>> ; Dispersion correction
> >>>> DispCorr    = EnerPres  ; account for cut-off vdW scheme
> >>>> ; Velocity generation
> >>>> gen_vel     = no        ; assign velocities from Maxwell distribution
> >>>>
> >>>> I have performed 100 ps NVT and NPT simulation before doing the MD
> run.
> >>>> Please help
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> *Deep S Bhattacharya*
> >>>>
> >>>> *Graduate Research Assistant*
> >>>>
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> >>>>
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