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From: Eric H. Lee (ericlee_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2008 - 16:17:54 CDT

Did you minimize before running free dynamics?

On Jul 3, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Alejandro Ortega wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having trouble when I run my simulation in NAMD. I have a
> simulation of a water box, only. But when I run it namd tells me
> that simulation has become unstable due to atoms going too fast.
> I tried the command reinitvels but it doesn't work either. I think
> it has to be with the bond energies but I don't know what am I doing
> wrong. It also tells me that I have absolute/relatives imprecisions
> on the VDW table.
> Also, I noticed that the temperature doesn't seem to work on the
> configuration file, if I give a value of 100K, the simulation
> behaves the same as if I give a value of 500K,
>
> In conclusion, how could I correct the atoms velocities and the
> values of the VDW table? and does someone know why the temperature
> doesn't seem to affect my simulation?
>
>
> Any kind of help would be highly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Alejandro Ortega
> University of Texas at El Paso.

Eric H. Lee
Medical Scholars Program
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, UIUC
ericlee_at_ks.uiuc.edu