From: Gerard Rowe (GerardR_at_usca.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 10:38:06 CST
Francesco,
You probably already figured it out, but for others who may be reading, the error you experienced was an Orca syntax error. The %maxcore ### line is a single-line command that doesn't get terminated with "end". Only input blocks like SCF, BASIS, and PAL should be terminated with "end". It's confusing because it starts with %, but "%maxcore ####" is setting a global variable rather than initializing an input block.
-Gerard
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From: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu <owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> on behalf of Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 9:46 AM
To: Eric Smoll; melomcr_at_gmail.com
Cc: NAMD
Subject: Re: namd-l: About restarting QM-MM simulation
On a fresh approach, a few hours later, the following interpretation
qmConfigLine "! UKS BP86 RI SV def2/J enGrad SlowConv"
qmConfigLine "%%maxcore 2500 %%pal nproc 34 end"
# qmConfigLine "%%pal nproc 34 end"
allows the simulation running.
francesco
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:17 AM Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com<mailto:chiendarret_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Eric, perhaps you can help me further about an error message concerning input to ORCA that is unclear to me
setting in namd conf file about orca:
qmConfigLine "! UKS BP86 RI SV def2/J enGrad SlowConv"
qmConfigLine "%%maxcore 2500 end"
qmConfigLine "%%pal nproc 34 end"
qmConfigLine "%%scf MaxIter 5000 end"
qmConfigLine "%%output Printlevel Mini Print\[ P_Mulliken \] 1 Print\[P_AtCharges_M\] 1 end"
Error shown in /0/..TmpOut
[file orca_main/maininp1.cpp, line 14628]: ERROR: expect a '$', '!', '%', '*' or '[' in the input
By commenting out the line
qmConfigLine "%%maxcore 2500 end"
the simulations starts regularly. The default mem 1024 gave rise to warning in /0, while 2500 per core corresponds to less than 75% mem available on the node.
I must have been unable to interpret correctly the Example furnished by ORCA, or there is something else that I don't understand.
Example:
! DLPNO-CCSD(T) def2-TZVP def2-TZVP/C
%maxcore 3000
%pal
nprocs 6
end
Thanks for advice
francesco
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 7:48 PM Eric Smoll <ericsmoll_at_gmail.com<mailto:ericsmoll_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
You asked how to increase the number of SCF iterations above the default. Try something like this:
%scf
MaxIter 500
end
Best,
Eric
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 8:34 AM Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com<mailto:chiendarret_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello
How can NAMD-ORCA QM-MM simulations be correctly restarted? I mean in the context of namd.config in Example1 tutorial:
structure XXX_A1_box_ion.psf
coordinates XXX_A1_box_ion.pdb
# Output Parameters
binaryoutput no
outputname XXX_A1_out
outputenergies 1
outputtiming 1
outputpressure 1
binaryrestart yes
dcdfile XXX_A1_out.dcd
dcdfreq 1
XSTFreq 1
restartfreq 100
restartname XXX_A1_out.restart
In particular when no SCF convergence was not yet reached (in favorable cases, info says that SCF convergence is close to be reached), so that XXX_A1_out.restart was not provided.
I was also unable to find on ORCA manual how to increase the number of SFC iterations above the default 125.
Thanks for advice
francesco pietra
PS I understand that the ORCA calculation can be carried out separately but I have some reasons now to let NAM-ORCA working together.
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