From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2013 - 01:32:28 CST
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Norman Geist
<norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de> wrote:
> 1. I don’t think so.
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> 2. To get the clostest periodic distance between two atoms I usually
> do (pseudo code):
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> $xd = pmodulo($x1-$x2+$boxX/2,$boxX) - $boxX/2
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> $yd = pmodulo($y1-$y2+$boxY/2,$boxY) - $boxY/2
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> $zd = pmodulo($z1-$z2+$boxZ/2,$boxZ) - $boxZ/2
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> $dist = sqrt(pow($xd,2) + pow($yd,2) + pow($zd,2))
this last line is a *very* bad idea. pow() will be doing a call to
exp() and log(), both of which are very expensive. $x*$x however is
fast (like > 100x faster).
axel.
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> Make sure to use the pmodulo “positive arithmetic remainder”, standard
> module can’t do negative numbers.
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> 3. IMHO tcl don’t mind. Check if you can improve parts of your script.
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> Norman Geist.
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> Von: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im Auftrag
> von Morgan, Brittany
> Gesendet: Montag, 11. November 2013 19:03
> An: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Betreff: namd-l: TclForces and efficient PBC corrections
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> Hi All,
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> I use TclForces and I need to correct for periodic boundary conditions. I
> have procedures which correct for PBC brute force, but I'm having serious
> performance issues when I turn them on (the time required more than
> doubles).
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> Can anyone tell me if:
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> 1. For the scalar distance, does "getbond <coor1> <coor2>" return a distance
> corrected for periodic boundary conditions?
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> 2. Is there a built-in way to obtain the vector distance between two
> positions, corrected for periodic boundary conditions? Or does anyone know
> of a resource for doing more efficient calculations in Tcl?
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> 3. Is the IBVERBS version of charmrun faster when using TclForces?
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> I didn't have serious performance issues with my PBC corrections previously,
> but I've recently started working on a new cluster and this problem has
> appeared. Previously, I was using NAMD 2.9b2, but IBVERBS is not currently
> working on the new cluster. I've been using NAMD 2.9-multicore instead.
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> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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> Brittany Morgan
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-- Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey_at_gmail.com http://goo.gl/1wk0 International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.
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