pmemd CPU can deal with multiple cutoffs, and this is a way to improve
performance in some situations (low numbers of cores, EE < LJ cutoff), but
pmemd GPU cannot. You can go up to 20% faster in those special cases by
cutting EE down to about 6.5, but you have to be careful--there has to be a
tradeoff in reciprocal space work or you get burned, so order = 6 in &ewald
when you go EE cutoff = 6.5. Old school tricks, though...
Good luck,
Dave
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:42 PM, pengfei li <ldsoar1990.gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I am going to do QM/MM calculations, since CHARMM
> was used in our group before, I want to use AMBER to do the calculations
> but use similar conditions. It seems like the CHARMM protocol in our group
> uses different cutoffs for electrostatics and VDW so I am wondering whether
> AMBER also has this option available.
>
> Kind regards,
> Pengfei
>
> > On Mar 13, 2017, at 9:30 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:06 PM, pengfei li <ldsoar1990.gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >> Can sander deal with different cutoffs for electrostatic and VDW
> >> interactions? Thanks!
> >>
> >
> > No. But pmemd can, I think.
> >
> > What's the use-case here? If you use PME, the cutoff doesn't have an
> > appreciable effect on the electrostatics -- it just affects the split
> > between the direct and reciprocal space contributions. So you really
> only
> > need to consider L-J accuracy when picking a nonbonded cutoff. You can
> > test this with pmemd, but I don't think you gain much efficiency by using
> > different cutoffs for L-J vs. electrostatics...
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Jason
> >
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