Justin A. Lemkul skrev 2011-05-19 22.42:
Vitaly Chaban wrote:
For vacuum systems, "pbc = no" in conjunction with zero cutoffs is
correct
to obtain a gas-phase system.
For reasonably large box, this is the same heck.
Setting a box size and using "pbc = xyz" precludes the use of infinite
cutoffs, which should be the most rigorously correct way to treat this
type of system. With PBC, there are long-range effects that should be
avoided.
Nilesh: visualize your system, using VMD or ngmx. The behavior of your
molecular cluster during the first ps will provide an answer. Are you
sure that your topology is healthy?
I agree with this. The system should be going absolutely haywire :)
-Justin
Yes, this is a good test, and the topology should be inspected. However,
the observed result is expected for this system. A water dimer coupled
to a thermostat will dissociate eventually (pretty rapidly) at 300 K.
The water molecules themselves seem intact. The problem with
visualization comes from the fact that gromacs fails to write valid pdb
files when the coordinates are too large. I called this a bug on the
developer list one or two years ago since this generates pdb files that
gromacs itself can't read, but the other developers didn't catch on. You
can postprocess the pdb and cap the coordinates so that they're confined
to the range that the pdb format allows, but note that this will mess up
the water moleucles as they get very far apart.
Erik
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