From: "Mark Abraham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" <gmx-users@gromacs.org>
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Exact continuation run
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:33:52 +1000 (EST)
>
> Hi
> I have been running exact continuation runs using tpbconv along with the
> .edr file. I lost the .edr file to the last run
> but I do have the .log file with energy parameters from the same run.
Is
> there some way to get an exact
> exact continuation run with data from the .log file? I am using
pressure
> coupling.
No - the .log file output is at very different precision. It won't be so
different that you enter a different ensemble and need to re-equilibrate,
but you will not generate the same trajectory that a real exact restart
would do. More pertinent is that there is no method to take those values
and put them in an .edr file, or to use anything but an .edr file. So your
only option is to restart from the last point you have all the information
for. Take care of your data!
Mark
Indeed.
But note that exact continuation is completely irrelevant in most cases.
Without an exact restart your results will not be incorrect.
The main use of it for a normal user is if you are looking for rare events
in very long simulations. In that case you might not want to generate
frequent output, but in case something has happend you want to redo
part of the run (exactly) with more frequent output.
(Or in case you lost some data in the middle of a long series of simulations
and you want to rerun it to regenerate the data.)
Berk.
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