From: Nicholas M Glykos (glykos_at_mbg.duth.gr)
Date: Tue Apr 05 2005 - 05:33:48 CDT
Dear All,
A student is doing a simulation of the Dickerson DNA dodecamer using the
scripts that I attach on this message (explicit waters, 22 sodium ions
placed with the program 'sodium'). The initial minimisation (down to a
'GRADIENT TOLERANCE: 1.0179') and heating stage appeared to go well. The
production run went smothly for ~0.7 nanoseconds, and then it died with
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ERROR: Constraint failure in RATTLE algorithm for atom 364!
ERROR: Constraint failure; simulation has become unstable.
ERROR: Exiting prematurely.
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WallClock: 146567.853583 CPUTime: 142235.640000 Memory: 16432 kB
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He restarted his job, and this time he got to run it for another 1.3
nanoseconds before the problem re-appeared :
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ERROR: Constraint failure in RATTLE algorithm for atom 375!
ERROR: Constraint failure; simulation has become unstable.
ERROR: Exiting prematurely.
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WallClock: 255880.024668 CPUTime: 239782.650000 Memory: 14358 kB
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He tried to switch off 'rigidDieOnError', but to no avail. The structure
(with the exception of the first base pair) appears to be fairly stable
(and the atoms mentioned above belong to the second base pair, not the
first). He is currently trying with a lower temperature (300°K) [and if
that fails I suppose that we will have to either reduce the 2fs step, or
increase 'rigidTolerance'].
What buffles me, is that the simulation protocol he is using is fairly
standard (and can be found in numerous papers), so I didn't expect to have
these problems. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Nicholas
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Dr Nicholas M. Glykos, Department of Molecular
Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace,
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