Re: [gmx-users] g_current

2009-10-08 Thread Florian Dommert
Hello Andrew, g_current was created in order to calculate the current autocorrelation function, conductivity and dielectric constant of an ionic system. Our group has written an article describing the methods applied in this tool ( J. Chem. Phys. 129(22)(224501), 2008 ), so perhaps a look

Re: [gmx-users] Optimizing a parallel simulation

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Abraham
vivek sharma wrote: Hi There, While running a parallel MD simulation, I got following message while playing with parameters: NOTE 3 [file aminoacids.dat, line 1]: The optimal PME mesh load for parallel simulations is below 0.5 and for highly parallel simulations between 0.25 and 0.33,

[gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread nikhil damle
Hi all I am trying to simulate a system of 3168 atoms in vacuum in PBC box (-d=0.9 nm). Since there are no solvent molecules, i am unable to neutralise the system using addition of ions (Hence system has +3 charge). As soon as i start the MD run after putting the whole system in box,

Re: [gmx-users] Optimizing a parallel simulation

2009-10-08 Thread vivek sharma
Hi Mark, Thanks for your quick response. 2009/10/8 Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au vivek sharma wrote: Hi There, While running a parallel MD simulation, I got following message while playing with parameters: NOTE 3 [file aminoacids.dat, line 1]: The optimal PME mesh load for

Re: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Abraham
nikhil damle wrote: Hi all I am trying to simulate a system of 3168 atoms in vacuum in PBC box (-d=0.9 nm). Since there are no solvent molecules, i am unable to neutralise the system using addition of ions (Hence system has +3 charge). As soon as i start the MD run after putting the

Re: [gmx-users] Optimizing a parallel simulation

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Abraham
vivek sharma wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks for your quick response. 2009/10/8 Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au vivek sharma wrote: Hi There, While running a parallel MD simulation, I got following message while playing with parameters:

Re: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread nikhil damle
Hi, I tried to run on single node now. Now the error is different saying One of the box vectors has become shorter than twice the cut-off length or box_yy-|box_zy| or box_zz has become smaller than the cut-off This means that my box shrinks during dynamics (this is not constant volume MD) But

Re: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Abraham
nikhil damle wrote: Hi, I tried to run on single node now. Now the error is different saying One of the box vectors has become shorter than twice the cut-off length or box_yy-|box_zy| or box_zz has become smaller than the cut-off This means that my box shrinks during dynamics (this is not

Re: [gmx-users] vsites and lincs-order

2009-10-08 Thread Jochen Hub
Berk Hess wrote: Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:51:00 +0200 From: joc...@xray.bmc.uu.se To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] vsites and lincs-order All right, thanks! Since you mention energy conservation, maybe it would be worth adding notes or a warnings into pdb2gmx if the

Re: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread nikhil damle
No. My system is a single protein with charged ligand associated with it. But why should box size shrink ? In solvated system it does not shrink. What effect vacuum could possibly have on it ? Regards, Nikhil From: Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au To:

RE: R: Re: R: RE: R: RE: R: RE: R:[gmx-users] Tabulated potential - Problem

2009-10-08 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, The required spacing is basically only related with the second derivative of the potential and the accuracy you want. In standard cases, your spacing of 0.001 nm should be enough. But if your potential comes from some numerical inversion procedure, your potential could be very noisy,

Re: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread nikhil damle
Now when i increased the fourierspacing from 0.12 to 0.22 nm, it worked properly on single node and failed on multiple nodes giving same error of The Y-size of the box (4.612312) times the triclinic skew factor (0.866052) is smaller than the number of DD cells (2) times the smallest allowed cell

RE: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, Do not randomly change the fourierspacing. Are you really using PME in vacuum? The box size can only change if you have pressure coupling turned on, which should, obviously, should not do in vacuum. Berk Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:13:25 +0530 From: pdnik...@yahoo.co.in Subject: Re:

Re: [gmx-users] PRODRG

2009-10-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Smith, Chanel Chonda wrote: In the drug-enzyme tutorial it says that the crude was refined using a certain force field, SD, and CG. How was this accomplished? Then parameters from that force field (like charges and charge groups from analogous functional groups) were probably assigned,

Re: [gmx-users] trying to get better performance in a Rocks cluster running GROMACS 4.0.4

2009-10-08 Thread Carsten Kutzner
Hi, sorry for answering late, I was on vacation. If you have not tried it already, I would say that a direct back-to-back connection will give you a few percent extra in scaling, but probably not more. The sad thing about Ethernet is that its throughput is fixed while the performance of

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread ms
Rossen Apostolov ha scritto: Hi, I made some updates and incorrectly changed the permissions. You should be able to search now even without logging in. I jump in this thread to ask: I've notice that there are a huge amount of broken links in the new Gromacs pages. This is bad for me since

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ms wrote: Rossen Apostolov ha scritto: Hi, I made some updates and incorrectly changed the permissions. You should be able to search now even without logging in. I jump in this thread to ask: I've notice that there are a huge amount of broken links in the new Gromacs pages. This is bad

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread ms
Justin A. Lemkul ha scritto: ms wrote: Rossen Apostolov ha scritto: Hi, I made some updates and incorrectly changed the permissions. You should be able to search now even without logging in. I jump in this thread to ask: I've notice that there are a huge amount of broken links in the

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ms wrote: Justin A. Lemkul ha scritto: ms wrote: Rossen Apostolov ha scritto: Hi, I made some updates and incorrectly changed the permissions. You should be able to search now even without logging in. I jump in this thread to ask: I've notice that there are a huge amount of broken links

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread ms
Justin A. Lemkul ha scritto: Google cache and the PDF manual are my friends, but any hint on where to retrieve the pages that are still linked as being on the old wiki is appreciated. The old wiki has been taken down. You can search the Gromacs site (not the mailing list) for relevant

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ms wrote: Justin A. Lemkul ha scritto: Google cache and the PDF manual are my friends, but any hint on where to retrieve the pages that are still linked as being on the old wiki is appreciated. The old wiki has been taken down. You can search the Gromacs site (not the mailing list) for

Re: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Berk Hess wrote: Hi, Do not randomly change the fourierspacing. Are you really using PME in vacuum? The box size can only change if you have pressure coupling turned on, which should, obviously, should not do in vacuum. This suggests adding a warning about pressure coupling when the atomic

Re: [gmx-users] Distance restraint problem with 4.0.5 version

2009-10-08 Thread Alexandre Suman de Araujo
Mark Abraham escreveu: Alexandre Suman de Araujo wrote: Hi Gmxers Some months ago I performed some simulations, with GMX 3.3.3 version, where I apply distance restraint between water oxygen atoms and a static dummy site located at the center of a sphere to keep waters inside this sphere.

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread ms
Justin A. Lemkul ha scritto: The old wiki has been taken down. You can search the Gromacs site (not the mailing list) for relevant content, until all the links are working. There has been some discussion about this lately; it will be a very time-consuming task. Searching I tried, but it

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ms wrote: Justin A. Lemkul ha scritto: The old wiki has been taken down. You can search the Gromacs site (not the mailing list) for relevant content, until all the links are working. There has been some discussion about this lately; it will be a very time-consuming task. Searching I tried,

R: RE: R: Re: R: RE: R: RE: R: RE: R:[gmx-users] Tabulated potential - Problem

2009-10-08 Thread albita...@virgilio.it
Hi Berk, the potential I used comes indeed from Boltzmann inversion but I fitted it with a polynomial function of suitable degree which gave an almost perfect agreement on the range chosen (outside this range it reproduces the correct repulsive branches of the potential). I generated the

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread ms
Justin A. Lemkul ha scritto: Well, I'd like to help with fixing the links whenever I find a broken one, but it seems I can't edit. :) You have to register as a contributer and log in (top right of the Gromacs page). I registered yesterday and I am logged in, but perhaps I am not registered

RE: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, I am very hesitant to put in such checks. In most cases they would not be necessary. I a few cases it would help a user that does not know exactly would he/she is doing. But I don't like to make life harder for people who do know what they are doing and are simulating systems that are not

[gmx-users] LINCS error

2009-10-08 Thread Yongchul Chung
Hi all, I am trying to simulate 100 molecules of n-alkane molecules but keep receiving LINC errors. When I completed steepest descent I received following msg: Steepest Descents converged to Fmax 500 in 819 steps Potential Energy = 1.7174361e+05 Maximum force = 4.4903098e+02 on atom 172

Re: [gmx-users] LINCS error

2009-10-08 Thread Jochen Hub
delta_t = 0.01 You are using a 10 fs timestep!!! That is way too long. Standard is 2 (with bond constraints). Yongchul Chung wrote: Hi all, I am trying to simulate 100 molecules of n-alkane molecules but keep receiving LINC errors. When I completed steepest descent I

[gmx-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: umbrella potential

2009-10-08 Thread Stefan Hoorman
Stefan Hoorman wrote: I have included in my simulation some windows past the ~2nm distance between the two groups. The same result occurred, but with a longer separation, the graphic seems to continue rising and the histogram looks even taller. Here are

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: umbrella potential

2009-10-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Stefan Hoorman wrote: Hello. Finally came back with the results. Let me again remind you of what we were talking about. I wanted to obtain the PMF pulling my ligand out of the protein using umbrella sampling and WHAM. After several recomendations you asked me to try and simulate the

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread Rossen Apostolov
Hi, I registered yesterday and I am logged in, but perhaps I am not registered as contributor... I added you as a contributor. Thanks for offering to help! New users are only viewers by default to avoid giving instant write permissions to everyone. People who would like to

Re: [gmx-users] LINCS error

2009-10-08 Thread Yongchul Chung
Hi guys, As Justin pointed out, it was the problem with md simulation blowing up. I also had coloumbtype=PME and had to switch to cut-off to make my simulation run faster. Thanks for all the help. On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Jochen Hub joc...@xray.bmc.uu.se wrote: delta_t

Re: [gmx-users] mailing list search

2009-10-08 Thread ms
Rossen Apostolov ha scritto: Hi, I registered yesterday and I am logged in, but perhaps I am not registered as contributor... I added you as a contributor. Thanks for offering to help! New users are only viewers by default to avoid giving instant write permissions to everyone.

Re: [gmx-users] LINCS error

2009-10-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Yongchul Chung wrote: Hi guys, As Justin pointed out, it was the problem with md simulation blowing up. I also had coloumbtype=PME and had to switch to cut-off to make my simulation run faster. And it will be substantially less accurate than using PME. I would say Jochen's advice is

[gmx-users] Enthapy of vaporization for aromatics

2009-10-08 Thread Eudes Fileti
Hello gmx users. I have tried to calculate the enthalpy of vaporization of toluene liquid, which is about 38kJ/mol (exp. value) using the OPLS-UA model (7 sites). I generated the toluene topology adapting a template provided by PRODRG. I have obtained acceptable value for density and structure of

[gmx-users] Question about compressibility in P-coupling and Berendsen in T-coupling

2009-10-08 Thread Pan Wu
Hello gmx users, I am trying to simulate one protein in solvent with PBC xyz in standard condition (1 atm, 303K). However since I am using Martini force-field, some parameters in P-coupling and T-coupling confuse me a lot. Here are two questions listed below: 1. What is the compressibility

[gmx-users] Problem: Protein move out of box

2009-10-08 Thread Pan Wu
Hi Gromacs users,I am new to Gromacs, and now setting up one very simple system to test Gromacs+Martini. (one protein with solvent surrounded) When I run the MD and saw the trajectory, the protein seems go around randomly, and across the box size. Because Periodic Boundary Condition, it

Re: [gmx-users] Question about compressibility in P-coupling and Berendsen in T-coupling

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Pan Wu wrote: Hello gmx users, I am trying to simulate one protein in solvent with PBC xyz in standard condition (1 atm, 303K). However since I am using Martini force-field, some parameters in P-coupling and T-coupling confuse me a lot. Here are two questions listed below: 1. What

Re: [gmx-users] Problem: Protein move out of box

2009-10-08 Thread Amit Choubey
you can use trjconv -pbc nojump to take care of that. On 10/8/09, Pan Wu pan...@duke.edu wrote: Hi Gromacs users,I am new to Gromacs, and now setting up one very simple system to test Gromacs+Martini. (one protein with solvent surrounded) When I run the MD and saw the trajectory, the

Re: [gmx-users] Problem: Protein move out of box

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Pan Wu wrote: Hi Gromacs users, I am new to Gromacs, and now setting up one very simple system to test Gromacs+Martini. (one protein with solvent surrounded) When I run the MD and saw the trajectory, the protein seems go around randomly, and across the box size. Whether that's

[gmx-users] increasing the system size

2009-10-08 Thread Amit Choubey
Hi everyone, I was looking for ways to increase the system size (no. of atoms) beyond 9 . I read somewhere that there is no inherent constraint in gromacs on system size rather its because of the format of .gro . I cant find where i read this but could someone suggest me what to do if i need

RE: [gmx-users] increasing the system size

2009-10-08 Thread Dallas B. Warren
You don't really need to do anything. Atom number simply starts again. Catch ya, Dr Dallas Warren Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Monash University A polar bear is a Cartesian bear that has undergone a polar transformation -Original Message- From: gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org

RE: [gmx-users] Load imbalance and Y size error

2009-10-08 Thread Dallas B. Warren
No. My system is a single protein with charged ligand associated with it. But why should box size shrink ? In solvated system it does not shrink. What effect vacuum could possibly have on it ? Sounds very much like you have pressure coupling on. Check your .mdp file. Catch ya, Dallas

Re: [gmx-users] increasing the system size

2009-10-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Amit Choubey wrote: Hi everyone, I was looking for ways to increase the system size (no. of atoms) beyond 9 . I read somewhere that there is no inherent constraint in gromacs on system size rather its because of the format of .gro . I cant find where i read this but could someone suggest me

Re: [gmx-users] user defined potential function for 1-4 interaction

2009-10-08 Thread M Hafizur Rahman
Hi all: I posted this earlier but did not get any help I really need to slove this issue. What should be the way to pass a formatted table for the 1-4 interaction for two or more different groups? Reading page 150 and 180 of manual 4.0, I understand user defined potential functions can be

RE: [gmx-users] user defined potential function for 1-4 interaction

2009-10-08 Thread LuLanyuan
Hi, As I remember, you can only use one table for 1-4 interactions. Don't know if it's changed in the latest version. Lanyuan From: mhrah...@dal.ca To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] user defined potential function for 1-4 interaction Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:10:39 -0300

[gmx-users] Distance Restraints: Inconsistent Shifts, LINCS Warnings, Number of grid cells is zero, XTC error

2009-10-08 Thread João M . Damas
Gromacs users, I have a small test system of about 2500 atoms which consists on a few organic molecules in a box of water. I'm trying to use distance restraints to keep each molecule apart from each other and I've failed until now. I'll start by saying that the simulation runs smoothly without

[gmx-users] Why does x2top need to clean dihedrals?

2009-10-08 Thread Hu Zhongqiao
Dear all, Nobody would like to give some clues for this question, even the developer of the x2top code? I use x2top to get topology of a capped carbon nanotube with 168 atoms using oplsaa force field. The output information about dihedreals shows as follows. Before cleaning: 1008 dihedrals