Re: [gmx-users] high temperature during mdrun

2017-05-24 Thread Justin Lemkul



On 5/24/17 8:52 AM, fatemeh ramezani wrote:




  Hi dear gmx-usersI am simulating gold surface- protein interaction by 
GOLP-CHARMM forcefield. after 30 ps equilibration, I started mdrun with some 
freeze atoms in gold surface and NVT ensemble in temp=300 k, but when mdrun 
starts, temperature reaches to 5.50769e+05 and mdrun fails. md.mdp file 
containe:
title= gold
cpp   = cpp
include   =

; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS
integrator   = md
comm_mode  = Linear
;nstcomm   =  1
;comm_grps   = Protein  Non-protein
;nstcalcenergy = 1
; ENERGY MINIMIZATION OPTIONS
; Force tolerance and initial step-size
emtol   = 500.0
emstep= 0.001
tinit  = 0.000
dt = 0.0005
nsteps  = 10

; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS
nstxout = 3000
nstvout = 3000
nstfout  = 0
nstlog   = 1
nstenergy = 3000

; Output frequency and precision for xtc file
nstxtcout  = 3000
xtc-precision= 3000



; NEIGHBORSEARCHING PARAMETERS
; Periodic boundary conditions: xyz (default), no (vacuum)
pbc  = xyz
periodic_molecules= yes
; nblist cut-off
rlist   = 1.10

; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW
; Method for doing electrostatics
coulombtype = PME
r_coulomb= 1.1
;pme_order   = 6
;fourierspacing   = 0.10
ewald_rtol= 1e-06
ewald_geometry  = 3d

; Method for doing Van der Waals
vdw-type = switch
; cut-off lengths
rvdw-switch   = 0.90
rvdw = 1.10

; OPTIONS FOR BONDS
constraints   = none
constraint-algorithm  =  Lincs
lincs-order   = 8
lincs-iter   = 12
; Lincs will write a warning to the stderr if in one step a bond
; rotates over more degrees than
lincs-warnangle = 90

; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS
; Temperature coupling
Tcoupl= Nose-Hoover
nhchainlength   = 1
; Groups to couple separately
tc-grps = Protein  SOL NA CL slab AUC


Do not do this.

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Thermostats


; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K)
tau-t=  0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2  0.2
ref-t =  300 300 300 300 300 300

; Non-equilibrium MD stuff
freezegrps= slab
freezedim = Y Y Y

Can anyone help me to solve this problem?thank you in advance



Your system is blowing up.  Follow the standard advice at

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up#Diagnosing_an_Unstable_System 



as well as the cautionary notes about using freezing and required energy group 
exclusions at


http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/2016.3/user-guide/mdp-options.html#non-equilibrium-md

-Justin

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[gmx-users] high temperature during mdrun

2017-05-24 Thread fatemeh ramezani



  Hi dear gmx-usersI am simulating gold surface- protein interaction by 
GOLP-CHARMM forcefield. after 30 ps equilibration, I started mdrun with some 
freeze atoms in gold surface and NVT ensemble in temp=300 k, but when mdrun 
starts, temperature reaches to 5.50769e+05 and mdrun fails. md.mdp file 
containe:
title    = gold
cpp   = cpp
include   = 

; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS
integrator   = md 
comm_mode  = Linear
;nstcomm   =  1
;comm_grps   = Protein  Non-protein 
;nstcalcenergy = 1
; ENERGY MINIMIZATION OPTIONS
; Force tolerance and initial step-size
emtol   = 500.0
emstep    = 0.001
tinit  = 0.000
dt = 0.0005
nsteps  = 10

; OUTPUT CONTROL OPTIONS
nstxout = 3000
nstvout = 3000
nstfout  = 0
nstlog   = 1
nstenergy = 3000

; Output frequency and precision for xtc file
nstxtcout  = 3000
xtc-precision    = 3000



; NEIGHBORSEARCHING PARAMETERS
; Periodic boundary conditions: xyz (default), no (vacuum)
pbc  = xyz
periodic_molecules    = yes
; nblist cut-off    
rlist   = 1.10

; OPTIONS FOR ELECTROSTATICS AND VDW
; Method for doing electrostatics
coulombtype = PME
r_coulomb    = 1.1
;pme_order   = 6
;fourierspacing   = 0.10
ewald_rtol    = 1e-06
ewald_geometry  = 3d

; Method for doing Van der Waals
vdw-type = switch
; cut-off lengths   
rvdw-switch   = 0.90
rvdw = 1.10

; OPTIONS FOR BONDS    
constraints   = none
constraint-algorithm  =  Lincs
lincs-order   = 8
lincs-iter   = 12
; Lincs will write a warning to the stderr if in one step a bond
; rotates over more degrees than
lincs-warnangle = 90

; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS
; Temperature coupling  
Tcoupl    = Nose-Hoover
nhchainlength   = 1
; Groups to couple separately
tc-grps = Protein  SOL NA CL     slab AUC 
; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K)
tau-t    =  0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2  0.2
ref-t =  300 300 300 300 300 300

; Non-equilibrium MD stuff
freezegrps    = slab
freezedim = Y Y Y

Can anyone help me to solve this problem?thank you in advance

Fatemeh Ramezani

   
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