[gmx-users] Can't locate state.cpt for gmx mdrun

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/7/17 8:00 PM, Yonatan Zelnik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running an energy minimization script that works quite well, except
> that I can't find any of the checkpoint files that mdrun is supposed to
> provide. I've been looking through the docs for a while, and I can't seem
> to find a reason. I have tried the script on multiple systems, and multiple
> installations of gromacs (I am using 5.1.4 with MPI).
> 
> Here is the mdrun command I am using:
> 
> mdrun_sp -v -s em.tpr -o mintraj -g mdlog -c solvated.gro -x solvated_traj
> -cpo state.cpt -cpt 1.
> 
> The -cpt 1 should give mean that a .cpt file is recorded every minute, but
> no file is found in the directory where I run the script from. mdrun works
> well otherwise.
> 
> I'd appreciate any help.
> 

Energy minimization doesn't produce checkpoint files.  There's no point - there 
are no velocities or state variables to save.

-Justin

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