<div dir="ltr">Just to close this issue, removing MIN_DISP from the input file spawns hills with the desired frequency.<br><br>On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 6:09:01 PM UTC-4, Anthony Debellis wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Sirs,</div><div><br></div><div>I am running direct metadynamics with the following input section:</div><div><br></div><div><span lang="EN"><p> &FREE_ENERGY</p>
<p> METHOD METADYN</p>
<p> &METADYN</p>
<p> DO_HILLS .TRUE.</p>
<p> NT_HILLS 150</p>
<p> MIN_NT_HILLS 50</p>
<p> MIN_DISP 0.03</p>
<p> WW 1.0e-3</p><p><br></p>
<p> &METAVAR</p>
<p> COLVAR 1</p>
<p> SCALE 0.02</p>
<p> &END METAVAR</p>
<p> </p>
<p> &METAVAR</p>
<p> COLVAR 2</p>
<p> SCALE 0.02</p>
<p> &END METAVAR</p>
<p> </p>
<p> &PRINT</p>
<p> &COLVAR</p>
<p> COMMON_ITERATION_LEVELS 1</p>
<p> &EACH</p>
<p> MD 50</p>
<p> &END</p>
<p> &END COLVAR</p>
<p> &HILLS</p>
<p> COMMON_ITERATION_LEVELS 1</p>
<p> &EACH</p>
<p> MD 50</p>
<p> &END</p>
<p> &END HILLS</p>
<p> &END PRINT</p>
<p> &END METADYN</p>
<p> &END FREE_ENERGY</p><p><br></p><p>The run has produced a single COLVAR file but several HILLS files presently numbered from HILLS-1_150 to HILLS-1_600. The .ener (and COLVAR) file shows that the run is active and presently at step 950.</p><p><br></p><p>My questions are:</p><p>Why has cp2k stopped creating HILLS files?</p><p>Should I not see HILLS files created AT LEAST every 150 (NT_HILLS) steps?</p><p>Furthermore, why are multiple HILLS files created rather than a single HILLS file as is the case for the COLVAR file?</p><p><br></p><p>Please help!</p><p><br></p><p>Regards,</p><p>Anthony</p></span></div></div></blockquote></div>