[gmx-users] Issues with huge system

[Justin Lemkul]

On 11/4/16 5:09 PM, Kevin Chen wrote:
> Hi Gromacs Users,
>
>
>
> We 've observed  some issues while creating huge simulation boxes (over35
> nm* 35 nm * 35nm in size). Commands used for building our benchmarks showed
> as follow:
>
> gmx pdb2gmx -f 1AKI.pdb -o 1AKI_processed.gro -water spce
>
> gmx editconf -f 1AKI_processed.gro -o 1AKI_newbox.gro -c -box 33 33 33 -bt
> cubic
>
> gmx solvate -cp 1AKI_newbox.gro -cs spc216.gro -o 1AKI_solv.gro -p topol.top
>
> gmx grompp -f ions.mdp -c 1AKI_solv.gro -p topol.top -o ions.tpr
>
> gmx genion -s ions.tpr -o 1AKI_solv_ions.gro -p topol.top -pname NA -nname
> CL -nn 8
>
> gmx grompp -f minim.mdp -c 1AKI_solv_ions.gro -p topol.top -o em.tpr
>
> The problem only showed up when using box size greater than 30nm * 30nm * 30
> nm. Once the box is bigger than 30*30*30, the simulation always crashes
> during EM stage. However everything is fine when using any box sizes smaller
> than 30*30*30.   As such, we are eager to know if that was something we did
> wrong or there's some sort of issues for Gromacs dealing with large systems.
> Any suggestions and pointers are welcome!
>

Crashes with what error?  Are you simply running out of memory?

-Justin

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