[gmx-users] Replica exchange questions

[David van der Spoel]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 15:10 +0200, Marc Baaden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we are planning to use replica exchange very soon on a rather big system.
> What is the current state in Gromacs ? Eg:
> 
> * which Gromacs version is recommended for replica exchange, 3.3 or CVS or some 
>   custom version ?
3.3

> * are there known bugs/shortcomings ?
No.

> * can the individual replicas be parallelized ? Eg could one run 20 replicas, each
>   using 16 procs or can a replica only run on a single CPU ?
No. We'll work out how to do it and then put it in a subsequent version.
If it is relatively easy we might backport it to 3.3.x (but not 3.3.0).

> * are there any RE tutorials for gromacs ?
We have a paper in proof at JMB (Seibert et al. can be downloaded if you
have a subscription) which has some equations.

> 
> Thanks in advance,
>   Marc Baaden
> 
-- 
David.
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