Hello all, After minimizing the energy of my system of 200 particle coordinates of box dimension 3.5 nm to an acceptable value, I proceeded to doing mdrun but got the error message:
"Source code file: nsgrid.c, line: 348. Fatal error: Number of grid cells is zero. Probably the system and box collapsed." I was wondering what could be the cause. Below are my energy minimization parameter file, the results of the minimization and the mdrun parameter file. oxymin.mdp file title = NPT simulation of a Lennard-Jones Fluid cpp = /lib/cpp include = -I../top define = constraints = none integrator = steep nsteps = 5000 emtol = 1000 emstep = 0.10 nstlist = 10 rlist = 0.9 ns_type = grid coulombtype = PME rcoulomb = 0.9 vdwtype = cut-off rvdw = 0.9 fourierspacing = 0.12 fourier_nx = 0 fourier_ny = 0 fourier_nz = 0 pme_order = 4 ewald_rtol = 1e-05 optimize_fft = yes Step= 673, Dmax= 6.9e-03 nm, Epot= 6.11020e+05 Fmax= 7.64685e+03, atom= 19 Step= 675, Dmax= 4.1e-03 nm, Epot= 6.10956e+05 Fmax= 1.71624e+03, atom= 53 Step= 677, Dmax= 2.5e-03 nm, Epot= 6.10933e+05 Fmax= 3.60118e+03, atom= 30 Step= 678, Dmax= 3.0e-03 nm, Epot= 6.10927e+05 Fmax= 3.03499e+03, atom= 19 Step= 679, Dmax= 3.6e-03 nm, Epot= 6.10915e+05 Fmax= 4.80541e+03, atom= 30 Step= 680, Dmax= 4.3e-03 nm, Epot= 6.10913e+05 Fmax= 4.79865e+03, atom= 19 Step= 681, Dmax= 5.2e-03 nm, Epot= 6.10910e+05 Fmax= 6.50875e+03, atom= 30 Step= 683, Dmax= 3.1e-03 nm, Epot= 6.10857e+05 Fmax= 9.58182e+02, atom= 160 writing lowest energy coordinates. Back Off! I just backed up oxymin.gro to ./#oxymin.gro.6# Steepest Descents converged to Fmax < 1000 in 684 steps Potential Energy = 6.1085662e+05 Maximum force = 9.5818250e+02 on atom 160 Norm of force = 2.9207101e+02 oxymdrun.mdp file title = NPT simulation of a LJ FLUID cpp = /lib/cpp include = -I../top define = integrator = md ; a leap-frog algorithm for integrating Newton's equations of motion dt = 0.002 ; time-step in ps nsteps = 500000 ; total number of steps; total time (1 ns) nstcomm = 1 ; frequency for com removal nstxout = 1000 ; freq. x_out nstvout = 1000 ; freq. v_out nstfout = 0 ; freq. f_out nstlog = 500 ; energies to log file nstenergy = 500 ; energies to energy file nstlist = 10 ; frequency to update neighbour list ns_type = grid ; neighbour searching type rlist = 0.9 ; cut-off distance for the short range neighbour list coulombtype = PME ; particle-mesh-ewald electrostatics rcoulomb = 0.9 ; distance for the coulomb cut-off vdw-type = Cut-off ; van der Waals interactions rvdw = 0.9 ; distance for the LJ or Buckingham cut-off fourierspacing = 0.12 ; max. grid spacing for the FFT grid for PME fourier_nx = 0 ; highest magnitude in reciprocal space when using Ewald fourier_ny = 0 ; highest magnitude in reciprocal space when using Ewald fourier_nz = 0 ; highest magnitude in reciprocal space when using Ewald pme_order = 4 ; cubic interpolation order for PME ewald_rtol = 1e-5 ; relative strength of the Ewald-shifted direct potential optimize_fft = yes ; calculate optimal FFT plan for the grid at start up. DispCorr = no ; Tcoupl = nose-hoover; temp. coupling with vel. rescaling with a stochastic term. tau_t = 0.5 ; time constant for coupling tc-grps = OXY ; groups to couple separately to temp. bath ref_t = 80 ; ref. temp. for coupling Pcoupl = parrinello-rahman ; exponential relaxation pressure coupling (box is scaled every timestep) Pcoupltype = isotropic ; box expands or contracts evenly in all directions (xyz) to maintain proper pressure tau_p = 0.9 ; time constant for coupling (ps) compressibility = 4.5e-5 ; compressibility of solvent used in simulation ref_p = 1.0 ; ref. pressure for coupling (bar) gen_vel = yes ; generate velocities according to a Maxwell distr. at gen_temp gen_temp = 80 ; temperature for Maxwell distribution gen_seed = 173529 ; used to initialize random generator for random velocities I appreciate your suggestions. Lum
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