From: jeremy adler (jeremyeadler_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2011 - 18:30:46 CST
Hi Dir. Harrison,
these are the last few lines of minimization (1000 steps with virtually no
change in the energies. If the equilibration in charmm was carried out over
about 1500ps behaved itslef perfectly well in the subsequent production
run.. As potentially another solution, do you know of a script that will
convert charmm restart files into namd restart files?
thanks!
Jeremy
starting system:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/iq1q1z96ac79nje/step6.6_equilibration.pdb
BRACKET: 2.85511e-09 31.25 -9.12482e+11 -9.07398e+11 -8.99207e+11
PRESSURE: 998 3.88841e+16 -2.14232e+16 1.12373e+17 3.04533e+16 -2.00369e+16
2.26124e+16 7.48332e+15 -6.20386e+15 1.91964e+16
GPRESSURE: 998 3.88841e+16 -2.14232e+16 1.12373e+17 3.04533e+16 -2.00369e+16
2.26124e+16 7.48332e+15 -6.20386e+15 1.91964e+16
ENERGY: 998 2346753.6788 468115.1150 4454.7007
4848.7842 -31018.7247 99999999.9999 0.0000
0.0000 0.0000 99999999.9999 0.0000 99999999.9999
99999999.9999 0.0000 99999999.9999 99999999.9999
23040.0000 99999999.9999 99999999.9999
BRACKET: 1.76455e-09 16.1875 -9.12482e+11 -9.07398e+11 -9.04265e+11
PRESSURE: 999 3.88841e+16 -2.14232e+16 1.12373e+17 3.04533e+16 -2.00369e+16
2.26124e+16 7.48332e+15 -6.20386e+15 1.91964e+16
GPRESSURE: 999 3.88841e+16 -2.14232e+16 1.12373e+17 3.04533e+16 -2.00369e+16
2.26124e+16 7.48332e+15 -6.20386e+15 1.91964e+16
ENERGY: 999 2346695.8646 468093.2401 4454.6479
4848.7877 -31019.1667 99999999.9999 0.0000
0.0000 0.0000 99999999.9999 0.0000 99999999.9999
99999999.9999 0.0000 99999999.9999 99999999.9999
23040.0000 99999999.9999 99999999.9999
BRACKET: 1.09055e-09 3.0625 -9.09338e+11 -9.07398e+11 -9.04265e+11
NEW SEARCH DIRECTION
INITIAL STEP: 2.5e-07
GRADIENT TOLERANCE: 1.89282e+08
TIMING: 1000 CPU: 2751.05, 2.03812/step Wall: 2751.05, 2.03812/step, 0
hours remaining, 65648 kB of memory in use.
PRESSURE: 1000 3.88841e+16 -2.14232e+16 1.12373e+17 3.04533e+16 -2.00369e+16
2.26124e+16 7.48332e+15 -6.20386e+15 1.91964e+16
GPRESSURE: 1000 3.88841e+16 -2.14232e+16 1.12373e+17 3.04533e+16
-2.00369e+16 2.26124e+16 7.48332e+15 -6.20386e+15 1.91964e+16
ETITLE: TS BOND ANGLE DIHED
IMPRP ELECT VDW BOUNDARY
MISC KINETIC TOTAL TEMP
TOTAL2 TOTAL3 TEMPAVG PRESSURE
GPRESSURE VOLUME PRESSAVG GPRESSAVG
ENERGY: 1000 2346695.8646 468093.2401 4454.6479
4848.7877 -31019.1667 99999999.9999 0.0000
0.0000 0.0000 99999999.9999 0.0000 99999999.9999
99999999.9999 0.0000 99999999.9999 99999999.9999
23040.0000 99999999.9999 99999999.9999
WRITING EXTENDED SYSTEM TO RESTART FILE AT STEP 1000
OPENING COORDINATE DCD FILE
WRITING COORDINATES TO DCD FILE AT STEP 1000
WRITING COORDINATES TO RESTART FILE AT STEP 1000
FINISHED WRITING RESTART COORDINATES
WRITING VELOCITIES TO RESTART FILE AT STEP 1000
FINISHED WRITING RESTART VELOCITIES
REINITIALIZING VELOCITIES AT STEP 1000 TO 300 KELVIN.
TCL: Running for 250000 steps
ERROR: Constraint failure in RATTLE algorithm for atom 3241!
ERROR: Constraint failure; simulation has become unstable.
ERROR: Constraint failure in RATTLE algorithm for atom 5379!
ERROR: Constraint failure; simulation has become unstable.
ERROR: Exiting prematurely.
==========================================
WallClock: 2760.421875 CPUTime: 2760.421875 Memory: 65648 kB
End of program
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Chris Harrison <charris5_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Were you using multiple-time-stepping in CHARMM? I suspect not, and
> that you are in NAMD. If this is the case, you could have some
> mildly pathological interactions that are not updated as often
> and lead to strong velocities that result in RATTLE failures. Some
> solutions are to either determine the specific atom (via it's index) and
> resolve whatever may be causing the instability, or you could attempt
> longer minimization/equilibration runs in hopes the unstable interaction
> resolves itself. If this is indeed your situation, you'll be more
> efficient if you re-run the crashing simulation, but outputting the
> frames and energies every step, and then analyzing that trajectory for
> the source of your RATTLE failure.
>
> HOWEVER, all the above is just a best guess based on your mention of a
> RATTLE failure. Axel is right that it's difficult to diagnose the problem
> without seeing the actual output in your query. It's often useful to
> cut and paste 20 or so lines around the error message, so others can see
> exactly the output. With that kind of data the namd-list can be
> much more helpful.
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
>
> --
> Chris Harrison, Ph.D.
> Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
>
> char_at_ks.uiuc.edu Voice: 217-244-1733
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~char Fax: 217-244-6078
>
>
> jeremy adler <jeremyeadler_at_gmail.com> writes:
> > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 18:03:18 -0500
> > From: jeremy adler <jeremyeadler_at_gmail.com>
> > To: Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com>
> > Cc: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: namd-l: membrane equilibration
> >
> > Hi Dr Kohlmeyer,
> >
> > It seems as though the energies never come down and I get "ERROR:
> Constraint
> > failure in RATTLE algorithm" when the program exits the minimization
> > portion. Ive tried using both fixed atom as well as harmonic restraints
> with
> > the same basic result. I had seen somewhere in the mailing list that
> > periodic boundary conditions might be too small so i made them bigger
> only
> > to have the water collapse into the membrane. Im not exactly clear why
> the
> > energies are so he given they werent nearly as high when i was using
> charmm
> > and it equilibrated fine then (i am using the preequilbrated membrane
> from a
> > charmm run i conducted). I would like to use namd because i have access
> to a
> > bluegene computer and namd functions much better on bluegene than charmm.
> >
> >
> > thanks for your help,
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, jeremy adler <jeremyeadler_at_gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if anyone has a membrane equilbration protocol that
> > > works. I
> > > > tried adapting the one in the tutorial with a membrane previousely
> > > > equilibrated in charmm to no avail
> > >
> > > jeremy,
> > >
> > > before stating that something doesn't work, you should explain
> > > how it fails for you and why you think that this is not adequate.
> > >
> > > in molecular simulations, there are so many little things that
> > > can matter, it is rare that there is a one-size-fits-all solution.
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > axel.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > >
> > > > Jeremy
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
> > > akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0
> > >
> > > Institute for Computational Molecular Science
> > > Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.
> > >
>
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