Re: [ESPResSo-users] stopping the simulation

[Peter Kosovan]

Hello Tarun,

You can get full answer to your question only if you provide details of your 
acutal simulation setup, e.g. by sending your tcl script.

I assume you are using the Langevin integrator which includes random forces. If 
you do not initialize your random number generator, the default seed is used 
when you start (or re-start) your simulation. To obtain exactly the same 
trajectory from a signle run and from a simulation where you save/restore the 
configuration, you need to save also the status of random number generators on 
each node and when restoring, you also need to restore the rng status.

On the other hand, if you are not studying time-dependent quantities, it should 
not matter. The trajectories between the single run and the saved/restored will 
be different but will have the same statistical properties. If you re-init your 
random number generators 6 times for the whole simulation, its influence should 
be well below the statistical error of the simulation.

Regards,

peter

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Peter Košovan
Institute of Computational Physics
University of Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 27
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
www.icp.uni-stuttgart.de

On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Tarun Khanna wrote:

> hi
>
> I am an undergraduate chemistry student and using espresso 3.1.0 for a short 
> term
> summer project, the system i am currently studying takes around 6-7 hours on a 
> 6 core
> machine.I was storing 6000 configurations for offline analysis, so in order to 
> reduce
> the load on the machine  i decided  to divide the simulation time and store 
> only 1000
> configurations at one time and stopped the simulation there  and then next time 
> I 
> feed the last configuration stored instead of random initial configuration and 
> carry
> on with the simulation for further 1000 steps so in this way i carried out the
> simulation at 6 different times.
> But recently when i compared the stored configurations in the above way with the
> configuration stored in single run the results were different. so please tell 
> me where
> i am going wrong and also is there any other way in espresso to stop the 
> simulation
> and start from there the next time.
>
> thank you
> Tarun