Joanne Hanna wrote:
Hi
I have a quick question. When you use tpbconv to continue runs what exactly is
taken from the *.edr and *.trr files? For instance if I have to run my
simulation in short batches of 1ns is it sufficient to just use the run3 files
to continue the run (2ns-3ns) or should thr run1, run2 and run3 files by
concatenated and then a run4 file generated using the complete edr and trr
files.
Exactly what gets taken will vary a bit with the kind of simulation, but
only information from the last step is pertinent, and only that gets
used. In a very real sense, with positions and momenta and Newton's Laws
known, the system doesn't need "memory" in order to determine the next
time step. You can verify that by starting a simulation with "run3" and
another with a concatenation of runs 1-3. Unless the concatenation has
involved some lossy conversion of numbers from one format to another,
the final step will be identical and the subsequent simulation identical.
Multiple time-step integration would be a slightly different story, of
course.
Mark
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