David,I'll try to explain a bit better and I attached a gziped pdf file containing a reduced set of energies
that I sent at my first post.
I, too, am slightly confused about what exactly the differences are you're seeing. Could you perhaps make a little table or something? Partly, I just don't get what you mean about the difference between the two versions... Are you taking trajectories you originally ran with 3.2 and reprocessing them with 3.3? I think I had tried this at one point and concluded that it wasn't a good idea since there are some things the two versions do differently, so I shouldn't necessarily get the same energies even using the same (full precision) trajectory and tpr files.
The gmx3.2 and 3.3 version are the ones dowloaded for gromacs.org and installed without special specifications. The gmx3.3 was compiled with the modified md.c, which includes
the correction on the rerun option !! The bug you identified !!I do rerun trajectories generated by gmx3.2. The original 10ns trajectory has been cut down to the first 200ps, and writen in xtc and trr format, from the corresponding original xtc and trr
trajectories.The tpr files are generated with gmx3.2 including nstlist=1 and nstenergy=1. Two are generated, one with the inital gro file and the second one with the final gro file (after 10ns). This is to reproduce your observation that the energies are dependant on the gro file used to produce the
tpr file ... the box story.Then I extract the energies from the ener.edr file generated with all combinaisons possibles of the tpr, trajectories and gmx versions. They are given in the attached pdf file.
The other issue is using mdrun -rerun with xtc files. Since these are reduced precision, you should expect to get different energies even reprocessing a 3.3 trajectory with 3.3 using the same tpr file, as some of the energies are quite sensitive to distances. How much difference you will see depends on the precision of your xtc files. I *never* use xtc files for reprocessing for this reason.
The only *significant* differences I see are between the rerun on xtc and trr. Of course the precision of the coordinates should introduce a difference. However I was not expected the differences to be so important (up to 400 kJ/mol) even though they represent a small % of the total energy. I would also
have expected a compensation of errors, which is not happenning.Also I do not see any difference between the rerun using two different tpr files !! Neither with gmx3.2 nor gmx3.3-corrected. And that goes against the bug you found. You can imagine that I checked the mdp, xtc, trr and tpr files (they differ), rerun again, and same result.
I am confused too !!It is possible that all this is system dependent. My system is relatively big (>100K atom) in a
rectangular box, using RF for elect.My conclusion so far is that trr file must be used for rerun (we learn every day, isn't it fabulous !) and I do not see the bug you pointed out but probably due to the system I run !!
If you have more comment please ... Best wishes XAvier -- ---------------------------------- Xavier Periole - Ph.D. Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry / MD Group Univ. of Groningen Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands Tel: +31-503634329 Fax: +31-503634398 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web-page: http://md.chem.rug.nl/~periole ----------------------------------
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