[gmx-users] minimization is not converging
Bratin Kumar Das
177cy500.bratin at nitk.edu.in
Thu Sep 6 14:04:11 CEST 2018
Respected Dr. Justin,
Thanking you for your valuable advice.
Actually, I also tried to minimised the protein alone in the solvent
without the membrane. so, result was similar. The system bowed up
similarly. Is it possible that due to inherent problem in topology this
phenomena is happening.
On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On 9/6/18 7:47 AM, Bratin Kumar Das wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I am running a membrane simulation with GCGR protein. I am
>> getting the following warning and error
>>
>
> Your system is unstable and blowing up. mdrun is telling you something is
> really bad around atom 15058, so start looking there and follow advice at:
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up#
> Diagnosing_an_Unstable_System
>
> -Justin
>
>
> gmx mdrun -v -s em_1.tpr -deffnm em_1
>> :-) GROMACS - gmx mdrun, 2016.5 (-:
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>> Command line:
>> gmx mdrun -v -s em_1.tpr -deffnm em_1
>>
>>
>> Running on 1 node with total 4 cores, 4 logical cores
>> Hardware detected:
>> CPU info:
>> Vendor: Intel
>> Brand: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1225 v5 @ 3.30GHz
>> SIMD instructions most likely to fit this hardware: AVX2_256
>> SIMD instructions selected at GROMACS compile time: AVX2_256
>>
>> Hardware topology: Basic
>>
>> Reading file em_1.tpr, VERSION 2016.5 (single precision)
>> Using 1 MPI thread
>> Using 4 OpenMP threads
>>
>>
>> Steepest Descents:
>> Tolerance (Fmax) = 1.00000e+01
>> Number of steps = 2000
>>
>> WARNING: Listed nonbonded interaction between particles 19562 and 19566
>> at distance 2.420 which is larger than the table limit 2.200 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> WARNING: Listed nonbonded interaction between particles 9914 and 9918
>> at distance 2.232 which is larger than the table limit 2.200 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> WARNING: Listed nonbonded interaction between particles 29342 and 29348
>> at distance 2.250 which is larger than the table limit 2.200 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.
>>
>>
>> Step= 0, Dmax= 1.0e-02 nm, Epot= 1.42935e+20 Fmax= inf, atom=
>> 15058
>> Step= 1, Dmax= 1.0e-02 nm, Epot= 1.42929e+20 Fmax= inf, atom=
>> 15058
>> Step= 15, Dmax= 1.5e-06 nm, Epot= 1.42941e+20 Fmax= inf, atom=
>> 15058
>> Energy minimization has stopped, but the forces have not converged to the
>> requested precision Fmax < 10 (which may not be possible for your system).
>> It
>> stopped because the algorithm tried to make a new step whose size was too
>> small, or there was no change in the energy since last step. Either way,
>> we
>> regard the minimization as converged to within the available machine
>> precision, given your starting configuration and EM parameters.
>>
>> Double precision normally gives you higher accuracy, but this is often not
>> needed for preparing to run molecular dynamics.
>> You might need to increase your constraint accuracy, or turn
>> off constraints altogether (set constraints = none in mdp file)
>>
>> writing lowest energy coordinates.
>>
>> Steepest Descents converged to machine precision in 16 steps,
>> but did not reach the requested Fmax < 10.
>> Potential Energy = 1.4292894e+20
>> Maximum force = inf on atom 15058
>> Norm of force = inf
>>
>> GROMACS reminds you: "Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination;
>> do not become the slave of your model." (Vincent Van Gogh)
>>
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