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Hi,<br><br>The triclinic skew factor seems extremely small.<br>What are your box vectors?<br><br>Berk<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:26:54 +0000<br>From: lastexile7gr@yahoo.de<br>To: gmx-users@gromacs.org<br>Subject: [gmx-users] error: triclinic skew factor - number of DD cells<br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">Hello,<br><br>while I 'm executing an md run I came accross this error:<br>Fatal error:<br>The X-size of the box (22.541477) times the triclinic skew factor (0.317120) is<br>smaller than the number of DD cells (8) times the smallest allowed cell size (0.895000)<br><br>My system is monoclinic (sub-categorie to triclinic systems) and I get this error at random.<br><br>Should I run in less processors (less than 8) or should I add -dd option in mdrun? If that is so, which value should be ideal?<br><br>Thank you,<br>Nikos<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br /><hr />Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/' target='_new'>MSN Messenger</a></body>
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