Re: Basic question.

From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 13:30:30 CST

Yes there is a random seed used in each simulation, and it is documented
at http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/current/ug/node25.html#4441

Brian

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, hansang bae wrote:

> Before asking this question, I have to say that I'm not a chemist or a
> biologist. I have been running several example simulations available at namd
> homepage just because of my interest in parallel processing framework of
> namd2 (charm++).
>
> What I don't quite understand is why some of the simulations are not
> reproducible even for several sequential runs. (for example, bpti). Is namd2
> introducing some randomness in it's own code? Is it possible to set on or
> off such randomness in input parameters.
>
> Thanks,
> Hansang.
>
>

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