[gmx-users] Water molecule starting at atom 39087 can not be settled

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Tue Mar 21 23:54:08 CET 2017



On 3/21/17 6:51 PM, liming_52 wrote:
> Dear Gromacs users,I am trying to run a md using 4n6p.cif obtained from PDB with a ligand. I converted the file into pdb format using DS4.1, and got the file named lactoferrin.pdb. When I directly run
> the command "gmx mdrun -v -deffnm em", the program runs and produces the information as follows:
> :-) GROMACS - gmx mdrun, VERSION 5.1.2 (-:
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> GROMACS:      gmx mdrun, VERSION 5.1.2
> Executable:   /usr/bin/gmx
> Data prefix:  /usr
> Command line:
>   gmx mdrun -v -deffnm em
>
>
> Running on 1 node with total 12 cores, 24 logical cores
> Hardware detected:
>   CPU info:
>     Vendor: GenuineIntel
>     Brand:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz
>     SIMD instructions most likely to fit this hardware: AVX_256
>     SIMD instructions selected at GROMACS compile time: SSE2
>
> Compiled SIMD instructions: SSE2, GROMACS could use AVX_256 on this machine, which is better
>
> Reading file em.tpr, VERSION 5.1.2 (single precision)
>
> Will use 18 particle-particle and 6 PME only ranks
> This is a guess, check the performance at the end of the log file
> Using 24 MPI threads
> Using 1 OpenMP thread per tMPI thread
>
>
> Steepest Descents:
>    Tolerance (Fmax)   =  1.00000e+03
>    Number of steps    =        50000
> Step=    0, Dmax= 1.0e-03 nm, Epot=  2.62236e+13 Fmax= 1.19534e+16, atom= 3295
> Step=    1, Dmax= 1.0e-03 nm, Epot=  1.08905e+13 Fmax= 4.61331e+15, atom= 3295
> Step=    2, Dmax= 1.2e-03 nm, Epot=  4.10454e+12 Fmax= 1.60266e+15, atom= 3295
> Step=    3, Dmax= 1.4e-03 nm, Epot=  1.40137e+12 Fmax= 5.00036e+14, atom= 3295
> Step=    4, Dmax= 1.7e-03 nm, Epot=  4.33654e+11 Fmax= 1.40069e+14, atom= 3295
> Step=    5, Dmax= 2.1e-03 nm, Epot=  1.22200e+11 Fmax= 3.52752e+13, atom= 3295
> Step=    6, Dmax= 2.5e-03 nm, Epot=  3.18990e+10 Fmax= 8.01234e+12, atom= 3295
> Step=    7, Dmax= 3.0e-03 nm, Epot=  8.21424e+09 Fmax= 1.64883e+12, atom= 3295
> Step=    8, Dmax= 3.6e-03 nm, Epot=  2.50045e+09 Fmax= 3.09257e+11, atom= 3295
> Step=    9, Dmax= 4.3e-03 nm, Epot=  9.40257e+08 Fmax= 6.82365e+10, atom= 3279
> Step=   10, Dmax= 5.2e-03 nm, Epot=  2.72792e+08 Fmax= 1.39988e+10, atom= 3279
> Step=   11, Dmax= 6.2e-03 nm, Epot=  5.92206e+07 Fmax= 2.62182e+09, atom= 3279
> Step=   12, Dmax= 7.4e-03 nm, Epot=  1.69891e+07 Fmax= 4.55609e+08, atom= 3279
> Step=   13, Dmax= 8.9e-03 nm, Epot=  4.88134e+06 Fmax= 1.13133e+08, atom= 3296
> Step=   14, Dmax= 1.1e-02 nm, Epot=  1.86164e+06 Fmax= 3.65858e+07, atom= 3296
> Step=   15, Dmax= 1.3e-02 nm, Epot=  6.44202e+05 Fmax= 1.40616e+07, atom= 3296
> Step=   16, Dmax= 1.5e-02 nm, Epot=  2.16177e+05 Fmax= 4.49293e+06, atom= 3294
> Step=   17, Dmax= 1.8e-02 nm, Epot=  2.88800e+04 Fmax= 2.99167e+06, atom= 134
> Step=   18, Dmax= 2.2e-02 nm, Epot= -3.56134e+04 Fmax= 2.53958e+06, atom= 3296
> Step=   19, Dmax= 2.7e-02 nm, Epot= -7.50786e+04 Fmax= 5.14618e+06, atom= 3296
> Step=   20, Dmax= 3.2e-02 nm, Epot= -1.33736e+05 Fmax= 7.43406e+05, atom= 134
> Step=   21, Dmax= 3.8e-02 nm, Epot= -1.68139e+05 Fmax= 6.44435e+06, atom= 3296
> Step=   22, Dmax= 4.6e-02 nm, Epot= -2.39673e+05 Fmax= 3.99299e+05, atom= 3296
> Step=   23, Dmax= 5.5e-02 nm, Epot= -3.07273e+05 Fmax= 1.60934e+06, atom= 3296
> Step=   24, Dmax= 6.6e-02 nm, Epot= -3.25923e+05 Fmax= 2.64244e+05, atom= 3296
> Step=   26, Dmax= 4.0e-02 nm, Epot= -3.66840e+05 Fmax= 1.58505e+05, atom= 1346
> Step=   27, Dmax= 4.8e-02 nm, Epot= -3.98127e+05 Fmax= 6.82470e+05, atom= 134
> Step=   28, Dmax= 5.7e-02 nm, Epot= -4.11327e+05 Fmax= 1.87577e+05, atom= 3297
> Step=   29, Dmax= 6.9e-02 nm, Epot= -4.41304e+05 Fmax= 3.09908e+05, atom= 3297
> Step=   30, Dmax= 8.2e-02 nm, Epot= -4.55118e+05 Fmax= 1.47622e+05, atom= 3297
> Step=   31, Dmax= 9.9e-02 nm, Epot= -4.84124e+05 Fmax= 8.03024e+04, atom= 3296
> Step=   32, Dmax= 1.2e-01 nm, Epot= -5.11472e+05 Fmax= 1.00688e+05, atom= 3296
> Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Program gmx mdrun, VERSION 5.1.2
> Source code file: /build/gromacs-z6bPBg/gromacs-5.1.2/src/gromacs/mdlib/constr.cpp, line: 555
>
> Fatal error:
>
> step 33: Water molecule starting at atom 39087 can not be settled.
> Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep if appropriate.
>
> For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
> website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors
>
>
> How can I solve this problem?
>

You're starting from a really bad starting structure, apparently (note the 
astronomical forces) and it is not relaxing well.  How did you build the system? 
  How did you deal with the ligand?  Have you investigated the environment 
around the atoms experiencing high forces (the ones mdrun is printing out the 
whole way)?

-Justin

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Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow

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