# 19th August - Bi-weekly developers meeting - evening edition

**URL:** <https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/19th-august-bi-weekly-developers-meeting-evening-edition/13647>\
**Category:** Developers discussions\
**Created:** [August 12, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/19th-august-bi-weekly-developers-meeting-evening-edition/13647 "2026-08-12T12:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![avilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@avilla](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/avilla)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/19th-august-bi-weekly-developers-meeting-evening-edition/13647/1 "2026-08-12T12:52:33Z")

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Dear all,

Next GROMACS developer meeting will be August 19, 2026 at 17:00 CEST on zoom. Everybody is welcome.

You wish to discuss a specific topic. Please fill your topic in the agenda

Agenda:

- Virtual Sites with GPU Update (Lukas)
- \<_very brief description of the topic, and link to information on the ideas or to the issue_\> \< _who you are_\>
- GROMACS Planning meeting - 9th September (Alessandra)
- Open questions

We usually reserve in total 20 min for each discussion topic and suggest max 10 min to present the problem followed by discussion.

Note: To be able to edit wiki post in the developers category, you need to member of the forum and send a request to join the GROMACS developers group using the [following link](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/g/gmx_developers)

See you  
Alessandra

**When** see [google GROMACS calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGZkc2RvcmJvbmdqMXNwMGF0OTdjaHRlYjdfMjAyNTA3MjNUMTUwMDAwWiBpazJ1ZW12cmd2c3YyZ20zYXBsbGZlOWprb0Bn&tmsrc=ik2uemvrgvsv2gm3apllfe9jko%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL)

**Where** : [Join our Zoom Meeting (magic link)](https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69277089234?pwd=V2MwM0JJaGJOK3dDUWlhcWx6YUM5QT09)

Meeting ID: 692 7708 9234  
Password: gmxdevs

Join by SIP:  
[69277089234@zoom.nordu.net](mailto:69277089234@zoom.nordu.net)

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**Author:** ![vedran](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/gromacs.bioexcel.eu/vedran/32/1784_2.png) [@vedran](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/vedran)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 6:38am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/19th-august-bi-weekly-developers-meeting-evening-edition/13647/2 "2026-08-19T06:38:35Z")

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As for the third topic, I would like to bring to discussion the outstanding ff19SB (and ff14SB) work, e.g. [Draft: Fixes for ff14SB/ff19SB Coulomb energies (!5799) · Merge requests · GROMACS / GROMACS · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/merge_requests/5799), [Cmap free energy (!6042) · Merge requests · GROMACS / GROMACS · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/merge_requests/6042), [Draft: gmxpreprocess: resolve CMAP residue types in grompp (!6140) · Merge requests · GROMACS / GROMACS · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/merge_requests/6140), conversion of the DNA and RNA force fields, etc.

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**Author:** ![avilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@avilla](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/avilla)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 6:52am UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/19th-august-bi-weekly-developers-meeting-evening-edition/13647/3 "2026-08-19T06:52:23Z")

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A kind remind! GROMACS developer meeting will be today August 19, 2026 at 17:00 CEST on zoom.

Agenda:

- GROMACS Planning meeting - 9th September (Alessandra)
- Virtual Sites with GPU Update (Lukas)
- ff19SB (and ff14SB) work including DNA/RNA force field (Vedran) - see merge requests ([!5799](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/merge_requests/5799)) ([!6042](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/merge_requests/6042)) ([!6140](https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs/-/merge_requests/6140))

see you

**Where** : [Join our Zoom Meeting (magic link)](https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69277089234?pwd=V2MwM0JJaGJOK3dDUWlhcWx6YUM5QT09)

Meeting ID: 692 7708 9234  
Password: gmxdevs

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**Author:** ![lmullender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@lmullender](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/u/lmullender)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://gromacs.bioexcel.eu/t/19th-august-bi-weekly-developers-meeting-evening-edition/13647/4 "2026-08-19T16:09:17Z")

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Link to slides: [Google drive](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U7AfkVY39yGrsgALfnwKDYNwXVJ0qW3a6qCxc505Orw/edit?usp=sharing)