[gmx-users] step 0Segmentation fault

ram bio rmbio861 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 13:03:08 CEST 2009


Dear Justin,

Thanks for the advice. I am using the DPPC 128 lipid bilayer from D.
Peter Tieleman website, and the nvt.mdp file and the nvt.log files are
as follows as in your tutorial:
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
title		= NVT equilibration
define		= -DPOSRES	; position restrain the protein
; Run parameters
integrator	= md		; leap-frog integrator
nsteps		= 50000		; 2 * 50000 = 100
dt		= 0.002		; 2 fs
; Output control
nstxout		= 100		; save coordinates every 0.2 ps
nstvout		= 100		; save velocities every 0.2 ps
nstenergy	= 100		; save energies every 0.2 ps
nstlog		= 100		; update log file every 0.2 ps
; Bond parameters
continuation	= no		; first dynamics run
constraint_algorithm = lincs	; holonomic constraints
constraints	= all-bonds	; all bonds (even heavy atom-H bonds) constrained
lincs_iter	= 1		; accuracy of LINCS
lincs_order	= 4		; also related to accuracy
; Neighborsearching
ns_type		= grid		; search neighboring grid cels
nstlist		= 5		; 10 fs
rlist		= 1.2		; short-range neighborlist cutoff (in nm)
rcoulomb	= 1.2		; short-range electrostatic cutoff (in nm)
rvdw		= 1.2		; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in nm)
; Electrostatics
coulombtype	= PME		; Particle Mesh Ewald for long-range electrostatics
pme_order	= 4		; cubic interpolation
fourierspacing	= 0.16		; grid spacing for FFT
; Temperature coupling is on
tcoupl		= V-rescale	; modified Berendsen thermostat
tc-grps		= Protein DPPC SOL_CL-	; three coupling groups - more accurate
tau_t		= 0.1	0.1	0.1	; time constant, in ps
ref_t		= 323 	323	323	; reference temperature, one for each group, in K
; Pressure coupling is off
pcoupl		= no 		; no pressure coupling in NVT
; Periodic boundary conditions
pbc		= xyz		; 3-D PBC
; Dispersion correction
DispCorr	= EnerPres	; account for cut-off vdW scheme
; Velocity generation
gen_vel		= yes		; assign velocities from Maxwell distribution
gen_temp	= 323		; temperature for Maxwell distribution
gen_seed	= -1		; generate a random seed
; COM motion removal
; These options remove motion of the protein/bilayer relative to the
solvent/ions
nstcomm		= 1
comm-mode	= Linear
comm-grps	= Protein_DPPC SOL_CL-
______________________________________

nvt.log file;

Input Parameters:
   integrator           = md
   nsteps               = 50000
   init_step            = 0
   ns_type              = Grid
   nstlist              = 5
   ndelta               = 2
   nstcomm              = 1
   comm_mode            = Linear
   nstlog               = 100
   nstxout              = 100
   nstvout              = 100
   nstfout              = 0
   nstenergy            = 100
   nstxtcout            = 0
   init_t               = 0
   delta_t              = 0.002
   xtcprec              = 1000
   nkx                  = 45
   nky                  = 45
   nkz                  = 42
   pme_order            = 4
   ewald_rtol           = 1e-05
   ewald_geometry       = 0
   epsilon_surface      = 0
   optimize_fft         = FALSE
   ePBC                 = xyz
   bPeriodicMols        = FALSE
   bContinuation        = FALSE
   bShakeSOR            = FALSE
   etc                  = V-rescale
   epc                  = No
   epctype              = Isotropic
   tau_p                = 1
   ref_p (3x3):
      ref_p[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      ref_p[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      ref_p[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
   compress (3x3):
      compress[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      compress[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      compress[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
   refcoord_scaling     = No
   posres_com (3):
      posres_com[0]= 0.00000e+00
      posres_com[1]= 0.00000e+00
      posres_com[2]= 0.00000e+00
   posres_comB (3):
      posres_comB[0]= 0.00000e+00
      posres_comB[1]= 0.00000e+00
      posres_comB[2]= 0.00000e+00
   andersen_seed        = 815131
   rlist                = 1.2
   rtpi                 = 0.05
   coulombtype          = PME
   rcoulomb_switch      = 0
   rcoulomb             = 1.2
   vdwtype              = Cut-off
   rvdw_switch          = 0
   rvdw                 = 1.2
   epsilon_r            = 1
   epsilon_rf           = 1
   tabext               = 1
   implicit_solvent     = No
   gb_algorithm         = Still
   gb_epsilon_solvent   = 80
   nstgbradii           = 1
   rgbradii             = 2
   gb_saltconc          = 0
   gb_obc_alpha         = 1
   gb_obc_beta          = 0.8
   gb_obc_gamma         = 4.85
   sa_surface_tension   = 2.092
   DispCorr             = EnerPres
   free_energy          = no
   init_lambda          = 0
   sc_alpha             = 0
   sc_power             = 0
   sc_sigma             = 0.3
   delta_lambda         = 0
   nwall                = 0
   wall_type            = 9-3
   wall_atomtype[0]     = -1
   wall_atomtype[1]     = -1
   wall_density[0]      = 0
   wall_density[1]      = 0
   wall_ewald_zfac      = 3
   pull                 = no
   disre                = No
   disre_weighting      = Conservative
   disre_mixed          = FALSE
   dr_fc                = 1000
   dr_tau               = 0
   nstdisreout          = 100
   orires_fc            = 0
   orires_tau           = 0
   nstorireout          = 100
   dihre-fc             = 1000
   em_stepsize          = 0.01
   em_tol               = 10
   niter                = 20
   fc_stepsize          = 0
   nstcgsteep           = 1000
   nbfgscorr            = 10
   ConstAlg             = Lincs
   shake_tol            = 1e-04
   lincs_order          = 4
   lincs_warnangle      = 30
   lincs_iter           = 1
   bd_fric              = 0
   ld_seed              = 1993
   cos_accel            = 0
   deform (3x3):
      deform[    0]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      deform[    1]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
      deform[    2]={ 0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00,  0.00000e+00}
   userint1             = 0
   userint2             = 0
   userint3             = 0
   userint4             = 0
   userreal1            = 0
   userreal2            = 0
   userreal3            = 0
   userreal4            = 0
grpopts:
   nrdf:     6048.01       12219       13680
   ref_t:         323         323         323
   tau_t:         0.1         0.1         0.1
anneal:          No          No          No
ann_npoints:           0           0           0
   acc:	           0           0           0
   nfreeze:           N           N           N
   energygrp_flags[  0]: 0
   efield-x:
      n = 0
   efield-xt:
      n = 0
   efield-y:
      n = 0
   efield-yt:
      n = 0
   efield-z:
      n = 0
   efield-zt:
      n = 0
   bQMMM                = FALSE
   QMconstraints        = 0
   QMMMscheme           = 0
   scalefactor          = 1
qm_opts:
   ngQM                 = 0
Table routines are used for coulomb: TRUE
Table routines are used for vdw:     FALSE
Will do PME sum in reciprocal space.

++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
U. Essman, L. Perela, M. L. Berkowitz, T. Darden, H. Lee and L. G. Pedersen
A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
J. Chem. Phys. 103 (1995) pp. 8577-8592
-------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------

Using a Gaussian width (1/beta) of 0.384195 nm for Ewald
Cut-off's:   NS: 1.2   Coulomb: 1.2   LJ: 1.2
System total charge: 0.000
Generated table with 1100 data points for Ewald.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1100 data points for LJ6.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1100 data points for LJ12.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1100 data points for 1-4 COUL.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1100 data points for 1-4 LJ6.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm
Generated table with 1100 data points for 1-4 LJ12.
Tabscale = 500 points/nm

Enabling SPC water optimization for 2274 molecules.

Configuring nonbonded kernels...
Testing AMD 3DNow support... not present.
Testing ia32 SSE support... present.


Removing pbc first time

Initializing LINear Constraint Solver

++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
B. Hess and H. Bekker and H. J. C. Berendsen and J. G. E. M. Fraaije
LINCS: A Linear Constraint Solver for molecular simulations
J. Comp. Chem. 18 (1997) pp. 1463-1472
-------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------

The number of constraints is 9045

++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
S. Miyamoto and P. A. Kollman
SETTLE: An Analytical Version of the SHAKE and RATTLE Algorithms for Rigid
Water Models
J. Comp. Chem. 13 (1992) pp. 952-962
-------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------

Center of mass motion removal mode is Linear
We have the following groups for center of mass motion removal:
  0:  Protein_DPPC
  1:  SOL_CL-

++++ PLEASE READ AND CITE THE FOLLOWING REFERENCE ++++
G. Bussi, D. Donadio and M. Parrinello
Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling
J. Chem. Phys. 126 (2007) pp. 014101
-------- -------- --- Thank You --- -------- --------

There are: 15940 Atoms
Max number of connections per atom is 28
Total number of connections is 117957
Max number of graph edges per atom is 4
Total number of graph edges is 27186

Constraining the starting coordinates (step 0)

Constraining the coordinates at t0-dt (step 0)
RMS relative constraint deviation after constraining: 9.42e-04
Initial temperature: 503.557 K

Started mdrun on node 0 Thu Jun 25 11:30:30 2009

           Step           Time         Lambda
              0        0.00000        0.00000

Grid: 9 x 9 x 9 cells
Large VCM(group Protein_DPPC):    -50.08205,     97.99061,
16.32530, Temp-cm:  2.50669e+05
Long Range LJ corr.: <C6> 2.0307e-03
Long Range LJ corr.: Epot   -1862.02, Pres:    -184.12, Vir:    1862.02
   Energies (kJ/mol)
          Angle       G96Angle    Proper Dih. Ryckaert-Bell.  Improper Dih.
    1.48814e+04    8.19090e+03    8.43857e+03    6.38969e+03    2.93352e+03
          LJ-14     Coulomb-14        LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)
    4.09831e+03    5.49186e+04    7.87055e+09   -1.86202e+03   -1.48414e+05
   Coul. recip. Position Rest.      Potential    Kinetic En.   Total Energy
   -1.53985e+05    9.50084e+00    7.87034e+09    3.08099e+17    3.08099e+17
  Conserved En.    Temperature Pressure (bar)  Cons. rmsd ()
    3.08099e+17    2.31982e+15    1.01551e+16    7.25066e+04

Please diagnose the information and suggest.

Thanks

ram


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>
> ram bio wrote:
>>
>> Dear Gromacs Users,
>>
>> I have inserted the protein in lipid bilayer and performed Inflategro
>> I am able to reach the required area per lipid after certain
>> iterations but was unable to get the standard Epot and Fmax values
>> that is negative and to the power of 5 or 6 and Fmax less than 1000
>
> You won't get that magnitude of Epot without water.  If you can't reach Fmax
> < 1000, you shouldn't just plow ahead.  Analyze where the problem is,
> because it is unlikely to go away by magic!
>
>> during the last minimization , later i solvated the protein using a
>> vanderwaal radii for carbon as 0.375, i found some water molecules not
>> in the core of the lipid layer but to the sides, as they were not in
>> the centre i ionated the complex with 13 chloride ions as the charge
>
> Did you get rid of these waters?  You can always try tweaking the entry in
> vdwradii.dat for C.  As far as those on the sides are concerned, it sounds
> like the box you've created is too large for the lipids.  I wouldn't use
> this system, because you'll waste a huge amount of time hoping it
> equilibrates right.
>
>> shown was non-zero total intergral charge 1.30000e+01, then i minized
>> the ionized complex with the minim.mdp file in as per justin tutorial,
>> i am following all the mdp files as per the tutorial till now, and was
>> able to obtain Potential Energy  = -1.8947278e+05
>> Maximum force     =  9.1642163e+02 on atom 7647
>> Norm of force     =  5.0845932e+01
>>
>
> That looks fine, but I still think there is an underlying problem in your
> InflateGRO construction step.
>
>> and then i created the index file ane while running the nvt
>> equilllibrqtion i am getting
>>
>> Step 0, time 0 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
>> relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
>> rms 0.007117, max 0.443345 (between atoms 6311 and 6312)
>> bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
>>  atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
>>
>
> The classic case of "blowing up."  See either my Advanced Troubleshooting
> page in the tutorial, or
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up.  If you want
> more specific advice, you'll have to provide information at least about what
> type of lipid you're using, and what you have in your .mdp file.
>
>> Can any body suggest me how to rectify the defect and is it the
>> problem with compliation as i am using gromacs 4.0.3 or the memory
>> space or my running the job.
>
> Well, first off I'd recommend always using the most current version of the
> software, not that it's likely to impact your system, but just in general.
>  This is a problem reported to this list almost daily, so please also check
> the archives.  There are literally thousands of posts regarding LINCS
> warnings and unstable systems.
>
> -Justin
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ram
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