Re: Am I using the right version for accelerated MD?

From: Chris Harrison (charris5_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 22 2011 - 16:11:35 CDT

Dear Patrick,

It looks like there is a typo in the manual. Instead of accelMDOn, you
should be using:
accelMD on

I believe this will fix your error. Can you retry and let us know?

Best,
Chris

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patrick wintrode <pat_wde2_at_yahoo.com> writes:
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:34:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: patrick wintrode <pat_wde2_at_yahoo.com>
> To: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: namd-l: Am I using the right version for accelerated MD?
> X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.4.20 YahooMailWebService/0.8.109.295617
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use accelerated MD using the build:
> 
> NAMD CVS-2011-03-18 for Linux-x86_64
> 
> It failed to start with the following error messages:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Warning: The following variables were set in the
> Warning: configuration file but will be ignored:
> Warning:    accelMDE (accelMD)
> Warning:    accelMDalpha (accelMD)
> Warning:    accelMDdual (accelMD)
> Warning:    accelMDTE (accelMDdual)
> Warning:    accelMDTalpha (accelMDdual)
> ERROR: The following variables were set in the
> ERROR: configuration file but are NOT VALID
> ERROR:    accelMDOn
> FATAL ERROR: ERROR(S) IN THE CONFIGURATION FILE
> [0] Stack Traceback:
>   [0:0] CmiAbort+0x7b  [0xb9c6ed]
>   [0:1] _Z8NAMD_diePKc+0x62  [0x5334d2]
>   [0:2] _ZN13SimParameters22initialize_config_dataEP10ConfigListRPc+0x73  [0xa5297f]
>   [0:3] _ZN9NamdState14configListInitEP10ConfigList+0x3d9  [0x9acf47]
>   [0:4] _ZN9ScriptTcl9initcheckEv+0x5e  [0xa2a9c2]
>   [0:5] _ZN9ScriptTcl7Tcl_runEPvP10Tcl_InterpiPPc+0x1e  [0xa26d6c]
>   [0:6] TclInvokeStringCommand+0x91  [0xbd1568]
>   [0:7] /usr/local/namd/NAMD_CVS-2011-03-18_Linux-x86_64//namd2 [0xc073b8]
>   [0:8] Tcl_EvalEx+0x176  [0xc079fb]
>   [0:9] Tcl_EvalFile+0x134  [0xbff404]
>   [0:10] _ZN9ScriptTcl4loadEPc+0x10  [0xa264c2]
>   [0:11] _Z18after_backend_initiPPc+0x448  [0x537890]
>   [0:12] main+0x3a  [0x537412]
>   [0:13] __libc_start_main+0xf4  [0x303c01d994]
>   [0:14] _ZNSt8ios_base4InitD1Ev+0x4a  [0x532dca]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The relevant portion of my configuration file is:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Accelerated MD parameters
> accelMDOn           on
> accelMDE            650
> accelMDalpha        105
> accelMDdual         on
> accelMDTE           650
> accelMDTalpha       105
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> It looks like I've either got the syntax wrong or else I'm using the wrong version. Any advice would be helpful.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Patrick L. Wintrode
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics
> Case Western Reserve University
> Cleveland, Ohio 44106

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