AMBER Archive (2009)

Subject: RE: [AMBER] question of ibelly used in pmemd

From: xiaoqin huang (xqhuang1018_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jul 15 2009 - 16:28:52 CDT


thanks for reply, and I tested:
1) without nmropt=1, without ibelly=1, i.e. no restraints, no freezing, just regular MD.
    the outputs of both sander and pmemd are the same;
2) with nmropt=1, but without ibelly=1, i.e. restraints, but no freezing, the restrained MD.
    the outputs of both sander and pmemd are the same;
 3) with nmropt=1, with ibelly=1, i.e. restraints, and freezing, do the MD again,
     when bellymask used, the error message is:
     "ERROR: PMEMD 9 does not support bellymask option! Please use Amber 6/7 GROUP format instead".
      when the Amber 6/7 GROUP format is used, i.e. the input file I attached in the previous email, the same error as described in my previous email happened.
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so, how to put ibelly=1 (group list or bellymask) in the input file that can be read in correctly by pmemd?

> From: rduke_at_email.unc.edu
> To: amber_at_ambermd.org
> Subject: Re: [AMBER] question of ibelly used in pmemd
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:22:23 -0400
>
> If you take the exact same system, run it in sander, and run it in pmemd, it
> should do the exact same thing for about 300-500 steps; then the systems
> will diverge due to rounding errors in the algorithms (which is of no
> concern - just different regions in phase space). So, is this what you are
> doing? If so, then it is likely their is some software installation problem
> or hardware problem. Did pmemd pass the amber test suite on your machine?
> It should. Okay, all that said, I looked at your mdin, and you have a
> pretty complex setup, involving both belly and nmr restraints. There is
> some possibility this is not being parsed exactly correctly in pmemd, but I
> think it is probably okay (I hardly ever use nmr restraints, so someone more
> familiar may want to look at how that is being used here). Looking at the
> output, what I see primarily is that the run goes for over 10 steps, but
> then there is an end-of-file on the restrt file; I am wondering if you had a
> hardware issue of some sort here... I would retry with both sander and
> pmemd, but for 10 steps, dumping output with each step (ntpr = 1), and see
> if there are any differences between pmemd and sander.
> Regards - Bob Duke
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "xiaoqin huang" <xqhuang1018_at_msn.com>
> To: <amber_at_ambermd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:34 PM
> Subject: [AMBER] question of ibelly used in pmemd
>
>
>
> Hi, users,
> I have a question about ibelly=1 used in pmemd simulations.
> the situation is that I want to freeze some part of residues/atoms of the
> system, so I used the ibelly=1 in the sander, it works well no matter which
> version (8, 9, 10).
> when I used the same ibelly=1 in the pmemd (amber 9), the MD runs and then
> stopped with the message as vlimit exceeded for step 1...
> here attached is the input file, output file and the error message.
> any suggestions or comments? thanks!
>
> xiaoqin
>
> 09/15/2009
>

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