<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><br /><br /><span>On 01/20/10, <b class="name">Carla Jamous </b> <carlajamous@gmail.com> wrote:</span><blockquote cite="mid:e02c90f11001190618h47c24986wb0cfb099bc52435d@mail.gmail.com" class="iwcQuote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 0pt;" type="cite"><div class="mimepart text html">Hi,<br />I've been using gromacs to run some tests but it's the first time I need to heat my system very slowly, knowing that it is a quite large system.<br /><br />;<br />; User spoel (236)<br />; Wed Nov 3 17:12:44 1993<br />
; Input file<br />;<br />title = Yo<br />cpp = /usr/bin/cpp<br />constraints = all-bonds<br />constraint_algorithm = Lincs<br />lincs_iter = 2<br />integrator = md<br />dt = 0.002 ; ps !<br />
nsteps = 225000 ; total 450 ps.<br />nstcomm = 1<br />nstxout = 250 ; collect data every 0.5 ps<br />nstvout = 500 ; collect velocities every 1 ps<br />nstfout = 0<br />
nstlog = 50<br />nstenergy = 50 ; collect energies every 0.1 ps<br />nstlist = 10<br />ns_type = grid<br />rlist = 0.9<br />coulombtype = PME<br />rcoulomb = 0.9<br />
vdwtype = cut-off<br />rvdw = 1.2<br />fourierspacing = 0.12<br />fourier_nx = 0<br />fourier_ny = 0<br />fourier_nz = 0<br />pme_order = 4<br />ewald_rtol = 1e-5<br />
optimize_fft = yes<br />annealing = single single<br />annealing_npoints = 10 10<br />annealing_time = 0 100 105 200 202 250 252 350 355 450 0 100 105 200 202 250 252 350 355 450<br />annealing_temp = 50 50 100 100 150 150 200 200 300 300 50 50 100 100 150 150 200 200 300 300<br />
; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in two groups<br />Tcoupl = Berendsen<br />tc-grps = Protein Non-protein<br />tau_t = 0.1 0.1<br />ref_t = 300 300<br />; Energy monitoring<br />
energygrps = Protein Non-protein<br />; Isotropic pressure coupling is now on<br />Pcoupl = no<br />Pcoupltype = isotropic<br />tau_p = 0.5<br />compressibility = 4.5e-5<br />ref_p = 1.0<br />
; Generate velocites is off at 300 K.<br />gen_vel = yes<br />gen_temp = 300.0<br />gen_seed = 173529<br /><br />Please can anyone tell me if my mdp file is correct? I have a serious doubt about gen_temp & Tcoupling.<br />
</div></blockquote></div>Check the manual section in 7.3 about annealing (your times look weird), and try it and see with nstlog=1. If the initial velocities are huge, then <br _moz_dirty="" />you don't want gen_vel.<br _moz_dirty="" /><br _moz_dirty="" />Mark<br _moz_dirty="" />