On 22/11/2010 7:11 PM, andrea spitaleri wrote:
Hi,
two on five have magic error at the same time. The simulation ends fine. Just the xtc files are corrupted. The magic error is systematic, since I repeated the simulation 4 times and I get the same behavior (at different time) after the continuing run. First time, I suspected for some I/O error, but now it sounds a bit strange. I will ask for a long simulation 50ns without extending steps.

Hmm. A GROMACS code problem is most likely to be manifest by exactly reproducible behaviour. A filesystem problem would be erratic, but should not only occur on run extensions. You could try the continuations with mdrun -reprod to eliminate a few GROMACS-related non-reproducibility attributes. This is more of a diagnostic than a long-term solution, however.

Mark
thanks in advance

regards

and


On 11/22/2010 05:44 AM, Roland Schulz wrote:


On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Spitaleri Andrea
<spitaleri.and...@hsr.it <mailto:spitaleri.and...@hsr.it>> wrote:

    Hi,
    yes sure. Basically I do:

    1. mdrun -s runA_ -deffnm runA_ -replex 5000 -multi 5 -> i get the
    first 5x25ns of remd simulation (five xtc every 5ps and five trr
    every 20ps, for each replica). I check those files by gmxcheck and
    they are fine. no errors.

    2. for i in 'seq 1 5'; tpbconv -s runA_$i -nsteps 25000000 -o
    runB_$i -> extension the simulation to 50ns total

    3. mdrun -s runB_ -replex 5000 -multi 5 -deffnm runB_ -cpi runA_  ->
    at end some (2 or 1 on the 5 xtc file) of the xtc are corrupted
(from gmxcheck) whereas the trr are fine. These are from 25ns to 50ns.

>From the log file I do not see any errors. Everything seems fine.
    I have free room space in the hd too :)

    I am just wondering whether the problem is in the xtc options
    (precision and writing step)


I doubt it that it has anything to do with your xtc options.

Are all you xtc corrupted or only some? Are those which are corrupted
all corrupted on the same frame or different ones?

Roland


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    Oggetto: Re: [gmx-users] xtc corrupted during REMD

    On 21/11/2010 2:34 AM, Spitaleri Andrea wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am encountering a weird problem with a REMD simulation using
    4.5.3. The total simulation is 50ns with 5 replica, and I do in two
    runs: 25ns and then continuing to 50ns (walltime queue). The first
    run is okay, the continue run (the last 25ns) randomly make some xtc
    files corrupted (from gmxcheck I get the Magic Number Error).

    I don't understand how the simulation can continue writing the .xtc
files when you are getting magic number errors from gmxcheck. We need to
    see command lines for your workflow, please :-)

    Mark

>   It is strange since the respective trr files are okay and the
    simulation is still going (it is not blowing up from the log, not
    step.pdb files, not crash). The only difference is that I am writing
    the xtc often respect to the trr file and just the complex not the
    solvent:
>
> nstxout             = 10000 ; coordinates every 20ps
> nstvout             = 0 ; velocity every 0ps
> nstfout             = 0 ; forces every 0 ps
> nstlog              = 2500 ; energies log every 5ps
> nstenergy           = 2500 ; energies  every 5ps
> nstxtcout           = 2500 ; coordinates every 5ps to xtc
> xtc-precision       = 2500 ;
> xtc-grps            = complex;
>
>
> Since the error is happening only for the continuing run, I am
    just wondering if there is any reason for this.
>
> thanks for any help
>
>
> and
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