> Such a short dt and strict niter should not be necessary in practice. The > failure of SCF to converge/LINCS warnings is what we typically refer to as > polarization catastrophe, so your system is on the brink of instability. > This > is one of the inherent problems of SCF in polarizable systems; it often fails > to > converge and leaves the system potentially unstable. The reflective hardwall > is > much more reliable (and faster). If the instability is happening in your > equilibration, that may be OK but it is something you should try to > troubleshoot > to make sure there's nothing else going wrong. > > -Justin >
Got it. I have been spending some time investigating the issue i’m having and after reading shellfc.cpp I was pretty confident the issue was with SCF not converging, and so my niter and dt were an attempt at looking into that. The workflow i’ve been trying to use is… EM -> Solvate -> EM -> posres NVT V-rescale -> posres berendsen NPT isotropic 1bar w/ V-rescale tcoupl -> berendsen NPT semi-isotropic various pressures w/ V-rescale tcoupl then once my cell shape has reached an equilibrium I finally switch to NH thermostat and PR barostat for the production run. If I switch to employing the hardwall (and the lagrangian dynamics for drudes) then I understand it is not compatible yet with NPT ensembles. So, if I change my work flow as follows would it be appropriate still? EM->Solvate->EM->posre NPT isotropic 1 bar w/ V-rescale tcoupl->NPT semi-isotropic varying pressures w V-rescale tcoupl until cell shape is equilibrated using PR barostat, then switch to NVT without pcoupl to use the hardwall during my production run? For some reason, i’ve got this idea that I need to be tcoupling and pcoupling during my production runs so i’ve been apprehensive to do this. My Best, Guy Dayhoff -- 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.
