Re: [AMBER] Instantaneous temperature in TI simulation

From: Qiantao Wang <qiantao.wang.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:33:51 -0400

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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