Hi, I'm following tutorial of "Lysozyme in Water" and playing with mdrun, restarted several times as an experiment and got confusion whether the restart process may have effect on subsequent process.
Here is what I did. Suppose nvt.tpr file is generated then 1st: gmx mdrun -deffnm nvt -v -maxh 0.05 the process goes on and stops at some point. Next i restarted it 2nd: gmx mdrun -s nvt.tpr -cpi nvt.cpt -deffnm nvt2 -v -maxh 0.05 -append the process goes on and stops. Again I restarted it 3rd: gmx mdrun -s nvt.tpr -cpi nvt2.cpt -deffnm nvt3 -v -maxh 0.05 -append the process goes on and stops. Then i combined all those .edr files via 4th: gmx eneconv -f nvt.edr nvt2.edr nvt3.edr -o nvt_comb.edr After that i want to generate temp_comb.xvg file 5th: gmx energy -f nvt_comb.edr -o temp_comb.xvg And i got this 6th: vi temp_comb.xvg # This file was created Tue Oct 18 19:36:56 2016 # Created by: # :-) GROMACS - gmx energy, VERSION 5.1.4 (-: # # Executable: /usr/local/gromacs/bin/gmx # Data prefix: /usr/local/gromacs # Command line: # gmx energy -f nvt_comb.edr -o temp_comb.xvg # gmx energy is part of G R O M A C S: # # GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulation # @ title "GROMACS Energies" @ xaxis label "Time (ps)" @ yaxis label "(K)" @TYPE xy @ view 0.15, 0.15, 0.75, 0.85 @ legend on @ legend box on @ legend loctype view @ legend 0.78, 0.8 @ legend length 2 @ s0 legend "Temperature" 0.000000 300.157532 1.000000 295.876801 2.000000 302.064392 3.000000 298.937622 4.000000 301.033997 5.000000 299.731812 6.000000 299.529449 7.000000 298.454712 8.000000 302.686157 8.800000 299.580170 9.000000 301.788818 10.000000 301.024384 11.000000 299.444427 12.000000 300.694550 13.000000 299.234558 14.000000 295.608673 15.000000 301.074036 16.000000 301.199493 16.560000 296.513916 17.000000 297.886108 18.000000 300.328278 19.000000 298.618591 20.000000 300.199432 21.000000 299.382965 22.000000 299.846497 23.000000 301.105682 24.000000 298.529266 24.840000 299.471161 We see at 8, 16 and 24. They are repeated. So my question is does this affect the whole subsequent process in simulation. Not only the temperature others may have repeated too if see it thoroughly. I didn't see the use of -append flag from 1 & 2 step because it looks they are repeated anyhow. Thank you for your consideration. -- Self-reliant is the great potential for success. -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists * For (un)subscribe requests visit https://maillist.sys.kth.se/mailman/listinfo/gromacs.org_gmx-users or send a mail to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org.