Dear all,
in reference to my previous message, I think I did find the bug, in the end. What seems to happen is that, upon restarting the RXSGLD run, sander reads the final *guiding* temperatures from the
replica records in the restart files, and overwrites temp0 with them. In other words, it treats it at a T-REMD rather than a RXSGLD. In turn, this causes the error down the line.
Upon detecting that the run is a RXSGLD, and not a T-REMD, the correct behaviour for sander should be to overwrite tempsg, rather than temp0, with the final temperatures found in the restart files,
since these are the final SGLD guiding temperatures for each replica, rather than their actual temperatures, which, for RXSGLD runs, are normally all the same and specified by temp0 in the input files.
It is highly likely that this is due to the sander command-line option (-rem 1) being the same for both T-REMD and RXSGLD, together with the omission of checks in the code to distinguish between the
two cases. If I may give a suggestion, a new command-line option should be introduced specifically for RXSGLD (for example -rem 6, which I believe is currently unused), because the differences in
behaviour with T-REMD are only few, but they are subtle and substantial. This way, one would avoid similar problems in the future.
Before a fix, a very cumbersome workaround is to make sure the restart files are ASCII (ntxo=1), then, at the end of each run, edit them and remove the last number in the second row of each file,
keeping track of them. Then, edit all the input files and replace by hand the value of tempsg in each replica with the value of its current stage, which is the last number in the second row of the
corresponding restart file (the one that was removed). Then, restart the job. Obviously, if one has more than just a few replicas, this can become a bit confusing.
So, is there any way I can help in patching this?
Cheers,
Charo
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