Re: [AMBER] Origin of calculated system temperature (in mdout file)

From: David A. Case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 12:39:14 -0500

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012, Jan-Philip Gehrcke wrote:

> I've been going through pmemd source a bit. Temperature is definitely
> calculated from kinetic energy, number of degrees of freedom and the
> Boltzmann constant, but I am still not sure about the details.
> Especially, I am a bit confused by an apparent distinction between
> solvent and solute atoms during temperature calculation.

I think that pmemd actually makes no distinction between "solute" and
"solvent" atoms; code describing such distinction is probably left over from
much earlier days, when sander (which pmemd tries to mimic) made that
distinction. (Sander doesn't make any use of such a division either).

...good luck...dac


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