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From: Jevgenij Raskatov (jraskato_at_ucsc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 19 2015 - 16:31:31 CST

Dear all,

I am running a high temperature simulation (1500 K, generalized Born
implicit solvent) in order to unfold a protein, and keep getting the
following message

ERROR: Constraint failure in RATTLE algorithm for atom 241!
ERROR: Constraint failure; simulation has become unstable.
ERROR: Exiting prematurely; see error messages above.
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I tried raising cutoff and pairlistdiff from the default of 12 and 14 to 20
and 24, respectively, but the problem keeps recurring, although the failure
is listed for a different atom each time. I started from a solution
structure, and ramped the temperature up gradually. 500K and 1000K both
worked for 100 ns at 2 fs/step, each, but 1500K became problematic.

Any advice?

Thanks 

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Dr. Jevgenij A. Raskatov
Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry
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