exact restarts were problematic in amber9 REMD for many reasons, some
more difficult than others to have a simple fix. this is why it was
completely rewritten for amber10.
carlos
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Volodymyr Babin <vbabin.ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I believe I saw this Amber9 bug too; and even informed someone
> about it back in spring if I recall correctly.
>
> Have a great day,
>  Volodymyr
>
> On Thu, September 11, 2008 11:59, David A. Case wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008, Holger Gohlke wrote:
>>>
>>> I sent the email below yesterday, but I am not sure whether it went
>>> through on the amber-developers reflector. If I am right, the problem
>>> that
>>> we found is severe, because restarting a REMD run would mean to take the
>>> wrong coordinates for the respective temperature. I attached a patch and
>>> I
>>> would be happy if you can have a look here.
>>
>> I'll forward this to the developers' list, since it doesnt' seem to be
>> on the archives.
>>
>>>
>>> Finally, may I ask to get CVS access again to the amber tree? Currently,
>>> we are correcting some overdue issues related to mm_pbsa, and we would
>>> like to carry over the changes to amber11.
>>
>> I'll look into this and get back to you.
>>
>> ...dave
>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------ Ursprüngliche Nachricht
>>> -------------------------
>>> Betreff: input coords for REMD in Amber9
>>> Von:     "Holger Gohlke" <gohlke.pharmazie.uni-kiel.de>
>>> Datum:   Di, 9.09.2008, 15:55
>>> An:      amber-developers.scripps.edu
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I think we ran across a problem when restarting a REMD run in Amber 9
>>> using REPCRD=0. In this case, the wrong input coordinates for the
>>> anticipated temperature are read. This is shown in the REMD debug
>>> information below.
>>>
>>> I attach a patch file that should correct this, but I would be happy if
>>> somebody can confirm this.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Holger
>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>>  calling sander to get initial energy
>>>
>>>  in runmd, myeptot is   -3660.81356490524
>>>  in runmd, mytargettemp is    300.000000000000
>>>
>>>  back from first sander call
>>>  MyEptot is   -3660.81356490524
>>>  MAIN LOOP, currx is            1
>>>  calling subrem on exchange #            1
>>>  gathering temperature/energy data
>>>  doing myindex lookup
>>>  mytargettemp is    300.000000000000
>>>  temptable
>>>    300.000000000000        305.811500000000        311.735300000000
>>>    317.773400000000        323.928100000000        330.201600000000
>>>    336.596300000000        343.114400000000        349.758400000000
>>>    356.530600000000        363.433600000000        370.469900000000
>>>    377.642000000000        384.952600000000        392.404400000000
>>>    400.000000000000
>>>  my index in sorted T list:            1
>>>  my replica # is            9
>>>  l_index and r_index are           16           2
>>>  l_temp0 and r_temp0 are    400.000000000000        305.811500000000
>>>  l_repnum and r_repnum are           16           2
>>>  jumpright is  T
>>>  partner index           16
>>>  partner repnum           16
>>>  myeptot and o_eptot are   -3660.81356490524       -2841.08902648973
>>>  mytemp and o_temp are    300.000000000000        400.000000000000
>>>  NOT controlling exchange
>>>  done with exchange swap
>>>  exchange is  F
>>>  newtargettemp is   300.000000000000
>>>  leaving subrem
>>>  called mdfil to change file names
>>>  here is my post-exchange file info
>>>  mdin:
>>>  md_nvt_prod_impl_re_940.in.000
>>>
>>>  mdout:
>>>  md_nvt_prod_impl_re_940.out.000
>>>
>>>  mdcrd:
>>>  md_nvt_prod_impl_re_940.mdcrd.000
>>>
>>>  mdinfo:
>>>  mdinfo
>>>
>>>  inpcrd:
>>>  md_nvt_prod_impl_re_939.restrt.000
>>>                                ^^^^^
>>>  !!! This should be 008 instead of 000, because at the end of run 939,
>>>  !!!   it was replica 9 that had a target temperature of 300K.
>>>
>>>  restrt:
>>>  md_nvt_prod_impl_re_940.restrt.008
>>>
>>>  calling sander for MD run
>>> >>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> Dr. Holger Gohlke
>>
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 12 2008 - 03:07:19 PDT