Re: Accelerated MD

From: Chris Harrison (charris5_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2012 - 15:37:06 CDT

Thomas Albers <talbers_at_binghamton.edu> writes:
> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:06:04 -0400
> From: Thomas Albers <talbers_at_binghamton.edu>
> To: Namd Mailing List <namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: namd-l: Accelerated MD
>
> Hello!
>
> Does anyone on this list perhaps have experience with accelerated MD?
> We are looking at a short peptide in a membrane (30000 atoms total)
> and are trying to find suitable values for E and alpha in dual-boost
> MD.
>
> Here are the relevant average energies (kcal/mol) for classical MD:
> dihedral 4070.72, total -42381.53
>
> With accelerated MD we see:
> dihedral 6362.78, total -40156.92
>
> The dihedral energy is higher, as expected, because the system
> explores a greater amount of phase space, but it seems that the
> contribution to the increase in total energy comes almost exclusively
> from the dihedral energy. If I read this right there is almost no
> boost at all applied to the diffusive degrees of freedom. Am I
> understanding the data right?
>
> Thomas
>

Thomas,

What E and alpha values did you use? Which equation did you use to
determine these E and alpha values?

Best,
Chris

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