Re: [AMBER] [Amber20] QM region of QM/MM computations cannot converge

From: Maciej Spiegel via AMBER <amber.ambermd.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:09:46 +0200

Dear David,

The QM region consists of 22 heavy atoms and 21 hydrogens.

The job has been running all day and has produced a 1.2GB data file, which is nearly entirely filled with the given errors. I will do as you suggest.

The `checkstructure` command:

> parm protein.prmtop
> trajin heat.rst
> checkstructure
> run

was done on the heating (previous stage) coordinates and the output shows no errors, I assume...:

---------- RUN BEGIN -------------------------------------------------

PARAMETER FILES (1 total):
 0: BlaC.prmtop, 45184 atoms, 10568 res, box: Orthorhombic, 10304 mol, 10294 solvent

INPUT TRAJECTORIES (1 total):
 0: 'heat.rst' is a NetCDF AMBER restart file with coordinates, velocities, time, box, Parm BlaC.prmtop (Orthorhombic box) (reading 1 of 1)
  Coordinate processing will occur on 1 frames.

BEGIN TRAJECTORY PROCESSING:
.....................................................
ACTION SETUP FOR PARM 'BlaC.prmtop' (1 actions):
  0: [checkstructure]
        Using pair list.
        Total Grid memory: 240.592 MB
TIME: Pair List Setup: 0.3338 s
        Grid dimensions: 53 55 57 (166155 total).
        Excluding bond interactions.
        Memory used by full exclusion list: 542.464 kB
        Mask [*] corresponds to 45184 atoms.
        Checking 45216 bonds.
        Imaging on.
----- heat.rst (1-1, 1) -----
100% Complete.

Read 1 frames and processed 1 frames.
TIME: Avg. throughput= 2.1715 frames / second.

ACTION OUTPUT:
TIME: Analyses took 0.0000 seconds.

DATASETS (1 total):
        CHECK_00001 "CHECK_00001" (integer), size is 1 (0.004 kB)
    Total data set memory usage is at least 0.004 kB

DATAFILES (1 total):
  STDOUT (Structure check)

RUN TIMING:
TIME: Init : 0.0000 s ( 0.01%)
TIME: Trajectory Process : 0.4605 s ( 91.65%)
TIME: Action Post : 0.0000 s ( 0.00%)
TIME: Analysis : 0.0000 s ( 0.00%)
TIME: Data File Write : 0.0000 s ( 0.01%)
TIME: Other : 0.0419 s ( 0.08%)
TIME: Run Total 0.5024 s
---------- RUN END ---------------------------------------------------

Best,
--
Maciej Spiegel, MPharm
Department of Pharmacognosy and Herbal Medicines
Wroclaw Medical University
https://farmaceut.github.io <https://farmaceut.github.io/>
.ORCiD <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8012-1026> @Publons <https://publons.com/researcher/4419515/maciej-spiegel/>
Reviewer at:
Phytochemistry | Free Radical Research |  Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
Journal of Molecular Modeling | Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark | Symmetry
> Wiadomość napisana przez David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu> w dniu 20.02.2023, o godz. 14:56:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2023, Maciej Spiegel via AMBER wrote:
> 
>> I run QM/MM computation but the QM region does not converge at all, and
>> Amber keeps throwing errors:
> 
> How many atoms are in your QM region?  Larger regions increase the chances
> of SCF failures.
> 
> Try running just enough steps to get to a failure, and look at the
> coordinates in the restart file.  See if the "checkstructure" action in
> cpptraj reports any problems.
> 
> ...good luck...dac
> 
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