Re: ABF with Alpha colvar can't be used on supercomputer?

From: Chris Harrison (charris5_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 29 2011 - 10:11:32 CDT

CVS version is now patched with the Alpha colvar bugfix. Should be
available in tomorrow's nightly build for those without CVS access.

Best,
Chris

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Jérôme Hénin <jhenin_at_ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr> writes:
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:56:46 +0200
> From: Jérôme Hénin <jhenin_at_ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr>
> To: JC Gumbart <gumbart_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Cc: Yun Luo <luoyun724_at_gmail.com>, namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu, Giacomo Fiorin
>  <giacomo.fiorin_at_temple.edu>
> Subject: Re: namd-l: ABF with Alpha colvar can't be used on supercomputer?
> 
> Sorry, you're right: the fix did not make it into 2.8, and still isn't
> in CVS either. We will send it in asap. Just in case, I am attaching a
> patch.
> 
> Lyna, you can forward this patch to the administrators of the
> supercomputer and politely ask them to apply and recompile? It is tiny
> and just a bugfix.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jerome
> 
> On 29 September 2011 15:05, JC Gumbart <gumbart_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > When was it fixed?  It still exists in the released 2.8.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf
> > Of Jérôme Hénin
> > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:05 AM
> > To: JC Gumbart
> > Cc: Yun Luo; namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: namd-l: ABF with Alpha colvar can't be used on supercomputer?
> >
> > Yes: a bug was introduced, that's what happened. Then it was fixed in
> > the next version.
> >
> > On 29 September 2011 08:05, JC Gumbart <gumbart_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >> Something changed between NAMD versions 2.8b2 and 2.8b3 that causes this
> > error, although I can't figure out what it is.  Hopefully Jerome can
> > enlighten us?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sep 28, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Yun Luo wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Dear NAMD developers,
> >>>
> >>> I want to use ABF with colvar "alpha" for a ten-alanine peptide. It seems
> > work when I tested my script on linux cluster. But when I use NAMD2.8 on
> > Blue Gene/P supercomputer, the output gives error message as below:
> >>> colvars:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> colvars:   Initializing a new collective variable.
> >>> colvars:   # name = alpha
> >>> colvars:   Initializing a new "alpha" component.
> >>> colvars:     # componentCoeff = 1 [default]
> >>> colvars:     # componentExp = 1 [default]
> >>> colvars:     # period = 0 [default]
> >>> colvars:     # wrapAround = 0 [default]
> >>> colvars:     # psfSegID = HLX
> >>> colvars:     # hBondCoeff = 0.5
> >>> colvars:     # hBondCutoff = 3.3
> >>> colvars:     # hBondExpNumer = 6
> >>> colvars:     # hBondExpDenom = 8
> >>> colvars:     Error: cannot add atoms to a dummy group.
> >>> colvars:     If this error message is unclear, try recompiling with
> > -DCOLVARS_DEBUG.
> >>> FATAL ERROR: Error in the collective variables module: exiting.
> >>>
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -------------
> >>>
> >>> Is this a bug related to supercomputer version?
> >>> My colvar and abf input file is shown as below:
> >>> colvarsTrajFrequency     100
> >>> colvarsRestartFrequency  100
> >>>
> >>> colvar {
> >>>  name alpha
> >>>  width 0.1
> >>>  lowerboundary 0.0
> >>>  upperboundary 1.0
> >>>  lowerwallconstant 10.0
> >>>  upperwallconstant 10.0
> >>>  extendedLagrangian on
> >>>
> >>>  alpha {
> >>>       residuerange 1-10
> >>>       psfSegID HLX
> >>>       hbondcoeff 0.5
> >>>       angleref    88
> >>>       angletol   15
> >>>       hbondcutoff  3.3
> >>>       hbondexpnumer 6
> >>>       hbondexpdenom 8
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> abf {
> >>>  colvars alpha
> >>>  fullSamples 10000
> >>>  applyBias yes
> >>>  outputFreq 100
> >>>  hideJacobian  no
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Thanks !
> >>>
> >>> Lyna
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >

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