[gmx-users] Load imbalance logging, how to limit it?

2012-10-15 Thread Ladasky
I'm getting control over my .mdp files, cutting down on the generation of data for which I currently have no use. I just changed the nstenergy parameter to 2500 cycles, much larger than its default value of 100 cycles. This reduced logging still gives me plenty of data for monitoring the

[gmx-users] When are .trr files essential? (was: Regarding Gromacs output files)

2012-10-12 Thread Ladasky
Erik Marklund wrote On 11 okt 2012, at 16.17, R.Vidya Rajendran (10PHD013) wrote: Hello Friends, I have two very specific queries regarding gromacs output files. 1) Since we can generate .xtc file during mdrun, Is is possible to stop generating .trr files, because it used to be very

[gmx-users] Re: Segmentation fault, mdrun_mpi

2012-10-10 Thread Ladasky
Update: Ladasky wrote Justin Lemkul wrote Random segmentation faults are really hard to debug. Can you resume the run using a checkpoint file? That would suggest maybe an MPI problem or something else external to Gromacs. Without a reproducible system and a debugging backtrace

[gmx-users] Re: Segmentation fault, mdrun_mpi

2012-10-08 Thread Ladasky
Justin Lemkul wrote My first guess would be a buggy MPI implementation. I can't comment on hardware specs, but usually the random failures seen in mdrun_mpi are a result of some generic MPI failure. What MPI are you using? I am using the OpenMPI package, version 1.4.3. It's one of three

[gmx-users] Re: Segmentation fault, mdrun_mpi

2012-10-07 Thread Ladasky
Justin Lemkul wrote Random segmentation faults are really hard to debug. Can you resume the run using a checkpoint file? That would suggest maybe an MPI problem or something else external to Gromacs. Without a reproducible system and a debugging backtrace, it's going to be hard to

[gmx-users] Re: Segmentation fault, mdrun_mpi

2012-10-05 Thread Ladasky
Bumping this once before the weekend, hoping to get some help. I am getting segmentation fault errors at 1 to 2 million cycles into my production MD runs, using GROMACS 4.5.4. If these errors are a consequence of a poorly-equilibrated system, I am no longer getting the right kind of error

[gmx-users] Segmentation fault, mdrun_mpi

2012-10-04 Thread Ladasky
So I have spent the past few weeks debugging my equilibration protocols, which were an odd hybrid of examples ranging from GROMACS 3.3 up to GROMACS 4.5. I have cleaned out old code. I added an in vacuo energy minimization step for the protein without solvent, and a missing NVT step after

[gmx-users] Re: g_energy menu choices inconsistent?

2012-10-02 Thread Ladasky
Justin Lemkul wrote Note that you can always select by name rather than number, i.e.: echo Temperature | g_energy -f ener.edr That's undocumented, as of the GROMACS 4.5.4 manual, but VERY useful. Thanks. -- View this message in context:

[gmx-users] g_energy menu choices inconsistent?

2012-10-01 Thread Ladasky
I have been trying to automate my simulation setup and monitoring. I wrote a script which calls g_energy, and automatically generates plots of potential energy from my EM step, temperature from my NVT equilibration step, and pressure and density from my NPT equilibration step. For each of these

[gmx-users] Domain decomposition error, is mdrun_mpi now obsolete?

2012-09-22 Thread Ladasky
Hello again everyone, I'm currently running GROMACS 4.5.4 on Ubuntu Linux 11.10. I'm trying to clean up my simulation conditions. Many of my MDP files are hold-overs from earlier versions of GROMACS, as far back as v. 3.3. I have written some shell scripts which should handle this work

[gmx-users] Re: v-rescale

2012-09-21 Thread Ladasky
Peter C. Lai wrote Generally it's probably not a good idea to rely on tutorials designed around 3.3 when a google search for gromacs tutorial shows a series of 4.5.x tutorials written by Justin himself, with explanations of why certain steps are conducted. (also when certain features may

[gmx-users] Re: Water molecules cannot be settled: V-rescale is the cause

2012-09-20 Thread Ladasky
Justin Lemkul wrote So the initial equilibration was NPT? Yes. Justin Lemkul wrote Did you ever try simply running NVT with either Berendsen or V-rescale before applying any type of pressure coupling? No, I haven't, and I don't remember seeing that described in any work flow. Justin

[gmx-users] Re: v-rescale

2012-09-20 Thread Ladasky
Hi Peter, Thanks for your response. Rather than dragging this thread too far off-topic, I'll direct you back to my thread, where I have just posted additional details. I took a warning message from GROMACS a bit too literally and it caused me to use conditions that blew up my simulations. I am

[gmx-users] Re: v-rescale

2012-09-19 Thread Ladasky
Dear Sara, I just had a problem with my simulations that I traced to the use of the V-rescale temperature algorithm. Here is my recent post: http://gromacs.5086.n6.nabble.com/Re-Water-molecules-cannot-be-settled-why-td4999302.html;cid=1348087067061-71#a5001121 V-rescale may be appropriate in

[gmx-users] Re: Force fields, is there a review article?

2012-08-31 Thread Ladasky
Thank you, Luca, for the link to the Ponder and Case review article. http://maxwell.uncc.edu/abaumket/phys6203_files/Reading/force-fields.pdf It is indeed the kind of article I have been seeking. maybe one of the best thing to do is to test the FF vs experimental data and check which one

[gmx-users] Force fields, is there a review article?

2012-08-25 Thread Ladasky
I have read a variation on this advice many. many times here: The ultimate choice of force field should be based on your reading and understanding of their derivation and known applications/limitations, all of which comes from the literature. Choose the one that you think is most sound :) I am

[gmx-users] Deuterate, heavyh options inconsistent (was: Water molecules cannot be settled, why?)

2012-07-27 Thread Ladasky
Hello Mark, Thanks for your reply. It has taken me several days to make some progress on my issues. I'm just going to address one specific point in this post. Mark Abraham wrote On 19/07/2012 6:52 PM, Ladasky wrote: I once used the -deuterate option in pdb2gmx, and I am presently trying

[gmx-users] Re: Water molecules cannot be settled, why?

2012-07-19 Thread Ladasky
Tsjerk Wassenaar wrote Hi John, Check where the unsettling water molecule is placed. If it's in the protein. that may be the cause of the problem. Otherwise, it's some of the other stuff you're doing, but rule out the simple things first. Thank you Tsjerk. I posted a reply several

[gmx-users] Re: Water molecules cannot be settled, why?

2012-07-13 Thread John Ladasky
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[gmx-users] Re: Water molecules cannot be settled, why?

2012-07-11 Thread John Ladasky
Hello, everyone, I am reviving a discussion I started about a month back. http://gromacs.5086.n6.nabble.com/Water-molecules-cannot-be-settled-why-tt4998059.html I thought that I would try to work around the problem by only proceeding with those simulations that didn't crash, but I've

[gmx-users] Water molecules cannot be settled, why?

2012-06-04 Thread John Ladasky
Recently I have started to get crash messages in my molecular dynamics runs which look like this: Reading file exp37b-prep.tpr, VERSION 4.5.4 (single precision) Making 1D domain decomposition 5 x 1 x 1 starting mdrun 'Protein in water' 50 steps, 1000.0 ps. step 81240: Water molecule

[gmx-users] How to automate genion completely?

2012-03-24 Thread John Ladasky
I am starting to write my own turnkey scripts to automate GROMACS (v 4.5.4) work flow. Many of the GROMACS commands, such as pdb2gmx and genion, have interactive options by default, meaning that you manually enter information when the program runs. In the tutorials, we are taught to invoke

[gmx-users] Trjconv PDB files define solvent as ATOM?

2012-03-19 Thread John Ladasky
I am trying to import PDB file snapshots from a GROMACS 4.5.4-generated trajectory into other software tools -- specifically, Biopython. I generate the snapshots using trjconv in GROMACS. I am interested in the water molecules from my solvent box, so I do not discard them. When trjconv

Re: [gmx-users] Trjconv PDB files define solvent as ATOM?

2012-03-19 Thread John Ladasky
Following up to myself: Looking back through the archives, I have learned that the issue of solvent atoms being exported from trjconv into PDB files as ATOM rather than as HETATM is an issue that was raised fully six years ago. http://www.mail-archive.com/gmx-users@gromacs.org/msg00405.html

[gmx-users] Superimposing dissimilar structures

2012-01-08 Thread John Ladasky
Hello everyone, I've used the rot+trans option in GROMACS trjconv to superimpose groups of atoms within a single molecular dynamics simulation.  I am now interested in modeling a protein, and a rather thoroughly scrambled circular permutation of that same protein.  I want to construct a

[gmx-users] Assembling a good simulation starting point

2010-02-18 Thread John Ladasky
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