[AMBER] ERROR: Calculation halted. Periodic box dimensions have changed too much from their initial values.

From: Gallo, Angelo <A.Gallo.1.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 09:12:26 +0000

Dear Amber users,



I was running, as most of time, a minimization with some heat steps and equilibration prior the production step.



It is the first time I am using AMBER18 to generate the prmtop and prmcrd file I never experienced the error reported below.

Usually I generated the prmtop and prmcrd with either Amber12 or Amber14.



Just few days ago using AMBER18 on the protein in its apo form I had no issue, but today I had the following error on the same protein but holo. In this holo protein there is just a modified residue.



Looking at the prmtop and prmcrd I can’t see any error if there is any



It does not stop immediately I have five steps and it stops at the third one (sander2.in)



As attached file you can find the input file I have been using.



ERROR: Calculation halted. Periodic box dimensions have changed too much from their initial values.

  Your system density has likely changed by a large amount, probably from

  starting the simulation from a structure a long way from equilibrium.



  [Although this error can also occur if the simulation has blown up for some reason]



  The GPU code does not automatically reorganize grid cells and thus you

  will need to restart the calculation from the previous restart file.

  This will generate new grid cells and allow the calculation to continue.

  It may be necessary to repeat this restarting multiple times if your system

  is a long way from an equilibrated density.



  Alternatively you can run with the CPU code until the density has converged

  and then switch back to the GPU code.



Any suggestion for debugging this issue



Thanks in advance



Best



Angelo Gallo
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