On 23/03/11, Elisabeth  <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 22 March 2011 22:46, Justin A. Lemkul <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Elisabeth wrote:
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> > > On 22 March 2011 22:31, Justin A. Lemkul <[email protected] 
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> > >     Elisabeth wrote:
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> > >         Hello,
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> > >          I did two simulations on the same system using versions 4.0.7
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> > >         and 4.5.3. It seems like the unit of surface tension is not the
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> > >         same in these versions because I am getting ~250 KJ/mol an in
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> > >         4.0.7 and ~ 5000bar nm in 4.5.3?! How KJ/mol can be converted
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> > >         into bar nm? Can anyone help please.
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> > >     Is this from g_energy output?  In past versions, everything was
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> > >     printed as "kJ/mol," even quantities that obviously weren't, like
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> > >     temperature, pressure, etc.
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> > > Yes, so why are the results so different. I am using exactly the same mdp 
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> > Any pressure-related quantity is going to be subject to enormous 
> > fluctuations. This has been discussed within the last few days.  Without 
> > seeing the .mdp file and a description of the system, it's hard for anyone 
> > to comment on what the results might mean.
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> Thanks. I am working on a pure alkane system, in a box of 3X3X3 which is 
> extended in Z to create liq/air interface. That is 3X3X6 . What could be 
> reason for such a big difference in results from two version? Thanks alot!   
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Look at the size of the fluctuations printed by g_energy. If they're comparable 
or larger than your differences, then you are not observing a statistically 
significant difference. Over just 2ns of a small system, that's likely to be 
the case. Damping such fluctuations requires large simulations or long times or 
both.

You are also generating velocities at the start of this run, so probably you 
are including spurious measurements on non-equilibrated configurations in your 
statistics. If you'd thought to tell us your command lines, I wouldn't be 
guessing :-) You can fix this with g_energy -b, but really you should separate 
your equilibration from your production run, even if you don't really need to, 
so that all your workflows have similar properties. Then when you come back to 
repeat some analysis in a month's time, you don't have to remember to ignore 
the first 1ns of this simulation...

Mark


> integrator          =  md                     
> dt                  =  0.002                 
> nsteps              =  1000000 
>             
> nstenergy           =  100                  
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> nstxout             =  100                
> nstlist             =  10                
> ns_type             =  grid                
> coulombtype         =  PME                     
> vdw-type            =  Shift              
> 
> rcoulomb-switch     =  0                    
> rvdw-switch         =  0             
> rlist               =  1.1                
> rcoulomb            =  1.1             
> rvdw                =  1.0                
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> fourierspacing      =  0.12                 
> fourier_nx          =  0
> fourier_ny          =  0
> fourier_nz          =  0
> pme_order          =  4                  
> ewald_rtol          =  1e-5
> ;optimize_fft      =  yes
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>   
> Tcoupl              =  v-rescale                
> tc-grps             =  System       
> tau_t               =  0.1        
> ref_t               =  300                 
>       
> pbc              =  xyz       
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>            
> gen_vel             =  yes                
> gen_temp            =  300.0                
> gen_seed            =  173529                
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> constraints             = all-bonds           
> constraint-algorithm = lincs
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> > -Justin
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> > Justin A. Lemkul
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> > Ph.D. Candidate
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> > ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
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> > MILES-IGERT Trainee
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> > Department of Biochemistry
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> > Virginia Tech
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> > Blacksburg, VA
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> > jalemkul[at]vt.edu(http://vt.edu) | (540) 231-9080
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> > http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin
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