[gmx-users] Re: energy-mimisation-problem

2012-11-26 Thread SANTU BISWAS
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:08 PM, SANTU BISWAS santu.biswa...@gmail.com wrote:
 dear users,

When performing a energy minimization of a
 polypeptide(formed by lysine-5-residues) in vacuum box by using
 Steepest Descent and also Conjugate Gradient methods in gromacs double
 precision,i noted that GROMACS never converges to emtol values under
 about 0.1 kj/mol/nm.I have used the .mdp file which is given below



 title=
 cpp  = /lib/cpp
 ;include  =-I../top/
 define   = -DFLEXIBLE

 ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS =
 integrator   = steep
 ; start time and timestep in ps =
 tinit= 0
 dt   = 0.001
 nsteps   = 1000
 rlist= 0.9
 rcoulomb = 0.9
 ; Method for doing Van der Waals
 vdw-type = Cut-off
 ; cut-off lengths
 rvdw_switch  = 0
 rvdw = 0.9
 ; Neighbour searching
 nstlist  = 1
 ; ENERGY MINIMIZATION OPTIONS =
 emtol= 0.1
 emstep   = 0.1
 nstcgsteep   = 1000




 santu
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Re: [gmx-users] Re: energy-mimisation-problem

2012-11-26 Thread Justin Lemkul



On 11/26/12 6:01 AM, SANTU BISWAS wrote:

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 9:08 PM, SANTU BISWAS santu.biswa...@gmail.com wrote:

dear users,

When performing a energy minimization of a
polypeptide(formed by lysine-5-residues) in vacuum box by using
Steepest Descent and also Conjugate Gradient methods in gromacs double
precision,i noted that GROMACS never converges to emtol values under
about 0.1 kj/mol/nm.I have used the .mdp file which is given below



title=
cpp  = /lib/cpp
;include  =-I../top/
define   = -DFLEXIBLE

; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS =
integrator   = steep
; start time and timestep in ps =
tinit= 0
dt   = 0.001
nsteps   = 1000
rlist= 0.9
rcoulomb = 0.9
; Method for doing Van der Waals
vdw-type = Cut-off
; cut-off lengths
rvdw_switch  = 0
rvdw = 0.9
; Neighbour searching
nstlist  = 1
; ENERGY MINIMIZATION OPTIONS =
emtol= 0.1
emstep   = 0.1
nstcgsteep   = 1000



Are you using single or double precision?  Single precision steepest descents is 
unlikely to ever reach such a low emtol.  Double precision and more thorough 
methods (CG and/or L-BFGS) may achieve it, perhaps after several rounds of each.


-Justin

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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin


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