Hi Brian,
Which version of sander did you use (did you download from the
repository)? If you won't mind providing me with your input files,
I'll try and see if I can reproduce the problem?
Thanks,
Qiantao
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Brian Radak <radak004.umn.edu> wrote:
> I encountered the same behavior with 1000 steps of ntt=0 and ntt=3 (I can't
> imagine that more steps would suddenly make it better).  Judging by the fact
> that all of the other fields are identical, I'm going to agree with your
> speculation of a computing error or else a rounding error in the printing.
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Brian Radak <radak004.umn.edu> wrote:
>
>> I haven't tried this for other thermostats yet, I'll attempt it later
>> today.
>>
>> When I restarted the simulation with constant volume (new velocities), I
>> get the same behavior again, even the first steps do not match.  The
>> difference is also magically always between 0.03 and 0.04, weird?
>>
>> Attached is a graph of the temperature distance for the beginning of the
>> restart (it's still running).
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:33 AM, David A Case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011, Brian Radak wrote:
>>>
>>> > When inspecting the duplicate outputs of my TI simulations, the only
>>> field
>>> > that does not match exactly (differs in hundredths place) is TEMP.
>>>  Should I
>>> > be worried?
>>> >
>>> > Here is the last step of 2 500ps constant pressure and temperature
>>> > (Andersen) runs:
>>>
>>> Does this happen with other thermostats (ntt =0,1 or 3)?  Does it only
>>> happen
>>> right at steps where new random velocities are being assigned?  Since the
>>> EKTOT values are the same to 8 significant figures, yet the temperatures
>>> differ in the 5th signficant place, my guess is that there is a bug in
>>> computing and printing the temperature.
>>>
>>> If you go beyond 500000 steps, do the temperatures printed on the two runs
>>> come back into sync?
>>>
>>> ...thx...dac
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Setting new random velocities at step   500000
>>> > check COM velocity, temp:        0.012618     0.24(Removed)
>>> >
>>> >  NSTEP =   500000   TIME(PS) =     500.000  *TEMP(K) =   307.13*  PRESS
>>> =
>>> > 208.8
>>> >  Etot   =    -12051.3906  EKtot   =      2875.8469  EPtot      =
>>> > -14927.2375
>>> >
>>>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > Setting new random velocities at step   500000
>>> > check COM velocity, temp:        0.012618     0.24(Removed)
>>> >
>>> >  NSTEP =   500000   TIME(PS) =     500.000  *TEMP(K) =   307.16*  PRESS
>>> =
>>> > 208.8
>>> >  Etot   =    -12051.3906  EKtot   =      2875.8469  EPtot      =
>>> > -14927.2375
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