I'll stop talking to myself now on this list ;-), please do not think about
it.
It must be something sander related, I can specify now.
I'll come back when I have some more information and some more specific
questions.
ca
Olli
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Oliver Kuhn <oak.amber.googlemail.com>
Date: 2011/7/20
Subject: Fwd: [AMBER] Periodicity in MD simulations
To: AMBER Mailing List <amber.ambermd.org>
Hi again,
OK. Now I have found a difference. New simulations are calculated using
Amber11, old ones with Amber10.
I diffed the input files, its all the same but different random seeds.
Are there any significant algorithmic differences in pmemd.MPI for Amber10
to 11 that could lead to such an effect (attached file)?
I'm sorry for this unspecific question, but I do not know where the
correlations come from, so I can't specifiy any further.
Greets,
Olli
Sorry, new simulations were not on GPU but also CPU. Maybe I can find
differences in the setup.
Olli
Hi Daniel,
thanks for the for the 'sieve' keyword explanation. Sounds reasonable.
And yes, Carlos is right, in the end, I did not pose my question right.
When I read these words "problem of periodicity", I wondered if there is a
known technical issue bringing up periodicity in MD simulations, but your
explanation asures me that there is something else meant by that, closely
related to something real.
Regarding Ignacios explanation,
I first thought of some global oscillation of the complex molecule and
looked if I can see that in the first PCA mode and I also tried clustering
high and low energy snapshots in the hope to find some hint for that but
could not find anything.
In the end I had and have the impression that it is something technical.
Yesterday I was was very surprised when I had added 10 new 'independent'
simulations to the 21 I had, and this time, these are completely
uncorrelated - and there is a technical difference, this time I had
calculated on GPUs (I used the SPDP).
At the moment, I have no more concrete question on that topic, I'm looking
closer to my data. Thank you for any help.
Regards,
Oliver
I attach one new plot with CPU simulations in "green" and GPU simulations in
"purple" (this time BOND energies).
2011/7/19 Daniel Roe <daniel.r.roe.gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I assume you're talking about the "cluster" command in ptraj?
>
> The "problem of periodicity" in clustering with the "sieve" keyword
> can be illustrated with this simple example. Suppose you have a
> trajectory in which you have a protein structure that has some sort of
> periodic motion to it, let's say a domain motion which provides access
> to an active site. For the purposes of this example lets say the
> "open" conformation occurs about every 10 steps, and you choose to
> cluster with a sieve of 10 - this means that on the first pass you are
> effectively clustering based on a trajectory composed of entirely
> "open" conformations, which is probably not desirable. However, if you
> sieve randomly you are probably going to get a better representation
> of the overall trajectory.
>
> Clustering experts feel free to add to this or correct me but this is
> how I understand "sieve" and periodicity.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Oliver Kuhn <oak.amber.googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear Amber Users and Developers,
> >
> > I have read in the AmberTools Manual that the 'sieve' command can be set
> to
> > random to avoid THE POTENTIAL PROBLEM OF PERIODICITY.
> > What exactly is meant by that?
> > I am asking because in the course of MMPBSA calculations I have done
> several
> > 'independent' simulations using different intial random seeds.
> > Sometimes simulations are totally uncorrelated, but sometimes they are
> all
> > correlated together (for several nanoseconds). This can be seen in
> internal
> > energies, e.g. angles (attached - 21 * 2ns simulation time HIV-Protease
> drug
> > complex, blockwise averaged).
> > I have read about synchronization effects of Langevin thermostat, but
> that
> > is not what I observe. In my simulations I have the SAME starting
> structure
> > and different seeds, not different structures and same seeds.
> > I'm very puzzled about these correlations and have no idea what these
> are.
> > What I know about the nature of correlations: Either simulations are
> > correlated with pearson coefficient around 0.4 or uncorrelated with
> around
> > 0.0 and nothing inbetween.
> > My random seeds range from 01 02 and so on up to 21.
> >
> > Maybe someone can give me a hint for paper.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Oliver
> >
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phone +49 201 183-3121, oliver.kuhn.uni-due.de
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