Hey Victor,

Thanks a lot for your reply.  I now understand that when it seemed to
freeze it was actually doing the spline fitting.

The problem with this particular system is that there are only 4 A
particles in it.  Hence the large block size.  Do you have a suggesting for
getting around this?

Patrick

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Victor Ruehle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Patrick,
>
> how many A particles (is it peptide?) do you have in your system? It
> might be that your block size is too big. We typically used something
> of the order of 10. Also your splinegrid seems quite dense with 90
> grid points. Start with a stepsize of 0.09 (30 grid points) and
> block_size of 5 just and work your way up to bigger blocks & finer
> grids. Every block_size frames, there is a break for solving the least
> squares problem. That can take quite a while with the direct solver
> currently implemented, especially for big systems / large block size /
> fine spline grid, so don't be suprised.
>
> If that doesn't help let me know and we can do further testing.
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
>
> 2011/11/16 Patrick Kiley <[email protected]>:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am using csg_fmatch to develop nonbonded potentials for a peptide in
> > tip3p water.  My trajectory is very large to ensure good sampling -
> > 200 ns with frames saved at 1 ps intervals.  I have used csg_stat to
> > determine min/max values and the step size.  I run csg_fmatch like
> > this:
> > csg_fmatch --top atomistic.tpr --options fmatch.xml --cg
> > "water.xml;pep_map.xml" --trj traj.trr --nframes <number>
> >
> > I expect this command to result in the creation of a file called A1-
> > A1.force (see settings file below).
> >
> > If number > frames_per_block (see settings below) then csg_fmatch
> > fills up all the memory while processor usage goes to zero.  It then
> > just sits there with no output until I kill it.
> >
> > However, if number < frames_per_block, then csg_fmatch terminates
> > normally, but with no output.
> >
> > In all cases there is no output . . . Can anyone advise me on how to
> > fix this problem?
> >
> > my settings file looks like this:
> > <cg>
> >  <!--fmatch section -->
> >  <fmatch>
> >    <!--Number of frames for block averaging -->
> >    <frames_per_block>1000</frames_per_block>
> >    <!--Constrained least squares?-->
> >    <constrainedLS>false</constrainedLS>
> >  </fmatch>
> >  <!-- example for a non-bonded interaction entry -->
> >  <non-bonded>
> >    <!-- name of the interaction -->
> >    <name>A1-A1</name>
> >    <type1>A1</type1>
> >    <type2>A1</type2>
> >    <!-- fmatch specific stuff -->
> >    <fmatch>
> >      <min>0.30</min>
> >      <max>3</max>
> >      <step>0.03</step>
> >      <out_step>0.005</out_step>
> >    </fmatch>
> >  </non-bonded>
> > </cg>
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Patrick
> >
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