On 2/26/13 12:51 AM, Anu Chandran wrote:
  Sir,
I have tried Berendsen barostat for Pcoupl. Still I get the same error.


So have a look at the other recommendations on the page I linked. Thermostat instability is just one possibility. We have had numerous reports, just in the last week, of crashes with CG force fields during equilibration (hint: check the archives). You probably need either better minimization or a shorter time step.

-Justin

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu> wrote:



On 2/25/13 12:16 AM, Anu Chandran wrote:

Dear users,
I am trying to do a coarse grained simulation of an octamer of a 350
residue protein in water using gromacs-4.5.3 using martini force field. I
got the following error when i started running NPT equilibration

"Step 32, time 0.64 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
rms 16.561310, max 137.568573 (between atoms 626 and 627)
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
   atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length

Step 32, time 0.64 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
rms 438.087891, max 3717.233887 (between atoms 580 and 581)
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
   atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
      626    627  121.9    0.2705  36.7207      0.2650
      621    622   90.0    0.2756   0.4600      0.2700
      624    626   91.5    0.3368 269.7515      0.3300
      621    623   90.0    0.2756   0.3172      0.2700
      620    624   90.4    0.3164 432.6003      0.3100
      622    623   90.0    0.2756   0.3991      0.2700
      618    620   85.5    0.3164 477.1006      0.3100
      626    627  121.9    0.2705  36.7206      0.2650
      615    618   88.6    0.3164 211.2461      0.3100
      607    610  141.3    0.3164  14.3253      0.3100

Step 32, time 0.64 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
rms 134.347206, max 2000.691284 (between atoms 4949 and 4946)
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
   atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
      610    612  149.2    0.3164  17.6610      0.3100
      612    614   89.7    0.3164   3.1394      0.3100
      614    615  150.9    0.3164   9.9306      0.3100
      615    618   88.6    0.3164 211.1131      0.3100
      618    620   85.5    0.3164 477.0737      0.3100
      620    624   90.4    0.3164 432.5994      0.3100
     4950   4949   75.8    0.3164 146.5132      0.3100
      624    626   91.5    0.3368 269.7514      0.3300
     4952   4950  118.9    0.3164  14.6303      0.3100
      468    469   90.0    0.2705  24.6834      0.2650
     4941   4939   90.0    0.3368   8.5601      0.3300
      585    586   61.3    0.2756   0.3361      0.2700
     4944   4941   82.5    0.3164 206.9830      0.3100
      586    587   90.1    0.2756   0.3137      0.2700
     4946   4944   90.0    0.3164 583.5660      0.3100
      606    607   90.0    0.3368   6.6314      0.3300
     4949   4946   90.0    0.3164 620.5243      0.3100
      580    581   91.9    0.4030 1003.9232      0.2700
     4954   4952   90.3    0.3164   1.6571      0.3100
      580    582   89.8    0.2756 960.9988      0.2700
      582    583   98.6    0.2756 592.0677      0.2700
      463    464   90.0    0.2654   7.6858      0.2600
      581    582   88.8    0.1280 193.0707      0.2700
      581    583   91.3    0.2254 514.1149      0.2700
Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
Segmentation fault (core dumped)"


Energy minimization and the NVT equilibration ran without any error or
warning. The mdp file used is as shown below;

title                    = Martini
define                   = -DPOSRES
integrator               = md
dt                       = 0.02
nsteps                   = 50000
nstcomm                  = 10
comm-grps                =
nstxout                  = 0
nstvout                  = 0
nstfout                  = 0
nstlog                   = 1000
nstenergy                = 100
nstxtcout                = 1000
xtc_precision            = 100
xtc-grps                 =
energygrps               = Protein W
nstlist                  = 10
ns_type                  = grid
pbc                      = xyz
rlist                    = 1.4
coulombtype              = Shift
rcoulomb_switch          = 0.0
rcoulomb                 = 1.2
epsilon_r                = 15
vdw_type                 = Shift
rvdw_switch              = 0.9
rvdw                     = 1.2
tcoupl                   = v-rescale
tc-grps                  = System
tau_t                    = 1.0
ref_t                    = 300
Pcoupl                   = parrinello-rahman
Pcoupltype               = isotropic
tau_p                    = 5.0
compressibility          = 3e-4
ref_p                    = 1.0
gen_vel                  = yes


If you ran NVT previously, regenerating velocities defeats that purpose
and perturbs the system unnecessarily.  Further, Parrinello-Rahman is not
very stable for initial equilibration; use Berendsen and then switch to P-R
for data collection.


  gen_temp                 = 300
gen_seed                 = 473529
constraints              = none
constraint_algorithm     = Lincs
unconstrained_start      = no
lincs_order              = 4
lincs_warnangle          = 30

Also the water box after energy minimization showed some gaps towards the
edge of the box when visualized using VMD.


can anybody please help me on how to overcome this error?


In addition to the above, see the standard advice for unstable systems:

http://www.gromacs.org/**Documentation/Terminology/**Blowing_Up<http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up>

-Justin

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