[gmx-users] Gromacs error

[Dallas Warren]

http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/current/onlinehelp/gmx-covar.html
Has the following note (as does 'gmx help covar'):
"Note that the diagonalization of a matrix requires memory and time
that will increase at least as fast as than the square of the number
of atoms involved. It is easy to run out of memory, in which case this
tool will probably exit with a ‘Segmentation fault’. You should
consider carefully whether a reduced set of atoms will meet your needs
for lower costs."

Plus see http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors#Cannot_allocate_memory

So it appears that the system size is too large to be able to perform
the calculation with the computer memory that you have available.  See
last link for suggestions on how to solve.

Catch ya,

Dr. Dallas Warren
Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052
dallas.warren at monash.edu
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On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 22:11, Budheswar Dehury <bude at kemi.dtu.dk> wrote:
>
> Dear GROMACS Developers and users,
>
> While trying to clustering analysis based on certain distance matrices, however, while trying to perform PCA, I executed the following command, it shows the following error. Need your valuable suggestion and feedback to get rid of such errors.
>
> Thanking you
> Budheswar
>
> gmx covar -f pca.xtc -s pca_dummy.pdb -nofit -nomwa -nopbc
>                       :-) GROMACS - gmx covar, 2019.2 (-:
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> GROMACS:      gmx covar, version 2019.2
> Executable:   /usr/local/gromacs/bin/gmx
> Data prefix:  /usr/local/gromacs
> Working dir:  /home/bd422/Desktop/BD/1
> Command line:
>   gmx covar -f pca.xtc -s pca_dummy.pdb -nofit -nomwa -nopbc
>
>
> WARNING: Masses and atomic (Van der Waals) radii will be guessed
>          based on residue and atom names, since they could not be
>          definitively assigned from the information in your input
>          files. These guessed numbers might deviate from the mass
>          and radius of the atom type. Please check the output
>          files if necessary.
>
>
> Choose a group for the covariance analysis
> Group     0 (         System) has 66506 elements
> Group     1 (        Protein) has 66506 elements
> Group     2 (      Protein-H) has 66506 elements
> Group     3 (        C-alpha) has 66506 elements
> Group     4 (       Backbone) has 66506 elements
> Group     5 (      MainChain) has 66506 elements
> Group     6 (   MainChain+Cb) has 66506 elements
> Group     7 (    MainChain+H) has 66506 elements
> Group     8 (      SideChain) has     0 elements
> Group     9 (    SideChain-H) has     0 elements
> Select a group: 0
> Selected 0: 'System'
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Program:     gmx covar, version 2019.2
> Source file: src/gromacs/utility/smalloc.cpp (line 125)
>
> Fatal error:
> Not enough memory. Failed to calloc 39807432324 elements of size 4 for mat
> (called from file
> /home/bd422/Downloads/gromacs-2019.2/src/gromacs/gmxana/gmx_covar.cpp, line
> 260)
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