diff --git a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.0 b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.0
index b33704e6880f54283d602d15b030ff82e18373e1..d443a65941c55f37f7e33744df44c823a55c34e0 100644
--- a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.0
+++ b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.0
@@ -1050,21 +1050,21 @@ Step Temp PotEng TotEng Press Volume
     9980     289.5911   -3167.0262   -2736.2814   -46.256166    11981.927 
     9990    285.54388   -3165.4944   -2740.7695    24.670732    11982.422 
    10000    285.58052   -3167.0156   -2742.2362    17.213393    11982.918 
-Loop time of 3.10584 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
+Loop time of 3.0588 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
 
-Performance: 278.186 ns/day, 0.086 hours/ns, 3219.740 timesteps/s
-100.1% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
+Performance: 282.463 ns/day, 0.085 hours/ns, 3269.253 timesteps/s
+100.0% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
 
 MPI task timing breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
-Pair    | 2.4909     | 2.4909     | 2.4909     |   0.0 | 80.20
-Bond    | 0.00078726 | 0.00078726 | 0.00078726 |   0.0 |  0.03
-Neigh   | 0.046328   | 0.046328   | 0.046328   |   0.0 |  1.49
-Comm    | 0.086798   | 0.086798   | 0.086798   |   0.0 |  2.79
-Output  | 0.0088136  | 0.0088136  | 0.0088136  |   0.0 |  0.28
-Modify  | 0.33556    | 0.33556    | 0.33556    |   0.0 | 10.80
-Other   |            | 0.1367     |            |       |  4.40
+Pair    | 2.4773     | 2.4773     | 2.4773     |   0.0 | 80.99
+Bond    | 0.00064421 | 0.00064421 | 0.00064421 |   0.0 |  0.02
+Neigh   | 0.046198   | 0.046198   | 0.046198   |   0.0 |  1.51
+Comm    | 0.085616   | 0.085616   | 0.085616   |   0.0 |  2.80
+Output  | 0.0087504  | 0.0087504  | 0.0087504  |   0.0 |  0.29
+Modify  | 0.33407    | 0.33407    | 0.33407    |   0.0 | 10.92
+Other   |            | 0.1063     |            |       |  3.47
 
 Nlocal:    500 ave 500 max 500 min
 Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
diff --git a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.1 b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.1
index ec27827d379ad4cc55720129f8680789895b5d83..d8fa6b8f65f95c2928a69320d3199b81495b3fd8 100644
--- a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.1
+++ b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.1
@@ -1050,21 +1050,21 @@ Step Temp PotEng TotEng Press Volume
     9980    292.46983   -3166.1984   -2731.1717    368.01395    11956.352 
     9990    289.30448   -3163.4299   -2733.1114    428.95905     11956.65 
    10000     287.2552   -3162.6278   -2735.3575    452.79176    11956.957 
-Loop time of 3.10632 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
+Loop time of 3.05878 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
 
-Performance: 278.142 ns/day, 0.086 hours/ns, 3219.241 timesteps/s
-97.4% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
+Performance: 282.465 ns/day, 0.085 hours/ns, 3269.274 timesteps/s
+100.0% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
 
 MPI task timing breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
-Pair    | 2.5644     | 2.5644     | 2.5644     |   0.0 | 82.55
-Bond    | 0.00067711 | 0.00067711 | 0.00067711 |   0.0 |  0.02
-Neigh   | 0.048237   | 0.048237   | 0.048237   |   0.0 |  1.55
-Comm    | 0.090831   | 0.090831   | 0.090831   |   0.0 |  2.92
-Output  | 0.0091362  | 0.0091362  | 0.0091362  |   0.0 |  0.29
-Modify  | 0.34473    | 0.34473    | 0.34473    |   0.0 | 11.10
-Other   |            | 0.04829    |            |       |  1.55
+Pair    | 2.5225     | 2.5225     | 2.5225     |   0.0 | 82.47
+Bond    | 0.00078869 | 0.00078869 | 0.00078869 |   0.0 |  0.03
+Neigh   | 0.047811   | 0.047811   | 0.047811   |   0.0 |  1.56
+Comm    | 0.088761   | 0.088761   | 0.088761   |   0.0 |  2.90
+Output  | 0.0088358  | 0.0088358  | 0.0088358  |   0.0 |  0.29
+Modify  | 0.34062    | 0.34062    | 0.34062    |   0.0 | 11.14
+Other   |            | 0.04948    |            |       |  1.62
 
 Nlocal:    500 ave 500 max 500 min
 Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
diff --git a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.2 b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.2
index 91f01149269ccea6ee9d8b5d76dce60eb539f430..8a68dcf1140b9a4837db7452d28fd92f5facad6f 100644
--- a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.2
+++ b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.2
@@ -1050,21 +1050,21 @@ Step Temp PotEng TotEng Press Volume
     9980    302.79215   -3141.6801   -2691.2997   -549.31453    12094.705 
     9990    298.76705   -3137.9719   -2693.5785   -471.44792    12095.532 
    10000    293.75232   -3132.9975   -2696.0631   -368.66716     12096.35 
-Loop time of 3.10632 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
+Loop time of 3.0586 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
 
-Performance: 278.142 ns/day, 0.086 hours/ns, 3219.240 timesteps/s
+Performance: 282.482 ns/day, 0.085 hours/ns, 3269.465 timesteps/s
 100.0% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
 
 MPI task timing breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
-Pair    | 2.5424     | 2.5424     | 2.5424     |   0.0 | 81.85
-Bond    | 0.00070071 | 0.00070071 | 0.00070071 |   0.0 |  0.02
-Neigh   | 0.053134   | 0.053134   | 0.053134   |   0.0 |  1.71
-Comm    | 0.089015   | 0.089015   | 0.089015   |   0.0 |  2.87
-Output  | 0.0091839  | 0.0091839  | 0.0091839  |   0.0 |  0.30
-Modify  | 0.34466    | 0.34466    | 0.34466    |   0.0 | 11.10
-Other   |            | 0.06725    |            |       |  2.16
+Pair    | 2.5213     | 2.5213     | 2.5213     |   0.0 | 82.43
+Bond    | 0.00067282 | 0.00067282 | 0.00067282 |   0.0 |  0.02
+Neigh   | 0.052297   | 0.052297   | 0.052297   |   0.0 |  1.71
+Comm    | 0.089669   | 0.089669   | 0.089669   |   0.0 |  2.93
+Output  | 0.0087938  | 0.0087938  | 0.0087938  |   0.0 |  0.29
+Modify  | 0.33955    | 0.33955    | 0.33955    |   0.0 | 11.10
+Other   |            | 0.04631    |            |       |  1.51
 
 Nlocal:    500 ave 500 max 500 min
 Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
diff --git a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.3 b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.3
index dfd33f58111246b0bc5ba804f41b6653d89fd176..842b83bf2cc9620c80a33df1f712bdbe9bae63c3 100644
--- a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.3
+++ b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/log.lammps.3
@@ -1050,21 +1050,21 @@ Step Temp PotEng TotEng Press Volume
     9980    315.32365   -3116.6383   -2647.6183   -581.88834    12177.944 
     9990    318.62429   -3116.9494   -2643.0199   -645.86627    12179.479 
    10000    319.22187   -3118.2624    -2643.444   -686.57936    12180.999 
-Loop time of 3.10616 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
+Loop time of 3.0588 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
 
-Performance: 278.157 ns/day, 0.086 hours/ns, 3219.412 timesteps/s
+Performance: 282.464 ns/day, 0.085 hours/ns, 3269.256 timesteps/s
 100.0% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
 
 MPI task timing breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
-Pair    | 2.4962     | 2.4962     | 2.4962     |   0.0 | 80.36
-Bond    | 0.00079823 | 0.00079823 | 0.00079823 |   0.0 |  0.03
-Neigh   | 0.052682   | 0.052682   | 0.052682   |   0.0 |  1.70
-Comm    | 0.088331   | 0.088331   | 0.088331   |   0.0 |  2.84
-Output  | 0.0086985  | 0.0086985  | 0.0086985  |   0.0 |  0.28
-Modify  | 0.33498    | 0.33498    | 0.33498    |   0.0 | 10.78
-Other   |            | 0.1245     |            |       |  4.01
+Pair    | 2.4462     | 2.4462     | 2.4462     |   0.0 | 79.97
+Bond    | 0.00065017 | 0.00065017 | 0.00065017 |   0.0 |  0.02
+Neigh   | 0.052088   | 0.052088   | 0.052088   |   0.0 |  1.70
+Comm    | 0.08725    | 0.08725    | 0.08725    |   0.0 |  2.85
+Output  | 0.0084825  | 0.0084825  | 0.0084825  |   0.0 |  0.28
+Modify  | 0.33259    | 0.33259    | 0.33259    |   0.0 | 10.87
+Other   |            | 0.1315     |            |       |  4.30
 
 Nlocal:    500 ave 500 max 500 min
 Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
diff --git a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.0 b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.0
index 613c14e1940585dc2f7d13c70b73a04246c31a80..4dc26c49b3f5b5cdb0240a52ca02c1eeb87e503b 100644
--- a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.0
+++ b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.0
@@ -1028,21 +1028,21 @@ Step Temp PotEng TotEng Press Volume
     9980     289.5911   -3167.0262   -2736.2814   -46.256166    11981.927 
     9990    285.54388   -3165.4944   -2740.7695    24.670732    11982.422 
    10000    285.58052   -3167.0156   -2742.2362    17.213393    11982.918 
-Loop time of 3.10584 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
+Loop time of 3.0588 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
 
-Performance: 278.186 ns/day, 0.086 hours/ns, 3219.740 timesteps/s
-100.1% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
+Performance: 282.463 ns/day, 0.085 hours/ns, 3269.253 timesteps/s
+100.0% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
 
 MPI task timing breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
-Pair    | 2.4909     | 2.4909     | 2.4909     |   0.0 | 80.20
-Bond    | 0.00078726 | 0.00078726 | 0.00078726 |   0.0 |  0.03
-Neigh   | 0.046328   | 0.046328   | 0.046328   |   0.0 |  1.49
-Comm    | 0.086798   | 0.086798   | 0.086798   |   0.0 |  2.79
-Output  | 0.0088136  | 0.0088136  | 0.0088136  |   0.0 |  0.28
-Modify  | 0.33556    | 0.33556    | 0.33556    |   0.0 | 10.80
-Other   |            | 0.1367     |            |       |  4.40
+Pair    | 2.4773     | 2.4773     | 2.4773     |   0.0 | 80.99
+Bond    | 0.00064421 | 0.00064421 | 0.00064421 |   0.0 |  0.02
+Neigh   | 0.046198   | 0.046198   | 0.046198   |   0.0 |  1.51
+Comm    | 0.085616   | 0.085616   | 0.085616   |   0.0 |  2.80
+Output  | 0.0087504  | 0.0087504  | 0.0087504  |   0.0 |  0.29
+Modify  | 0.33407    | 0.33407    | 0.33407    |   0.0 | 10.92
+Other   |            | 0.1063     |            |       |  3.47
 
 Nlocal:    500 ave 500 max 500 min
 Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
diff --git a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.1 b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.1
index 1fe011153453fbc0ba3e9929e9fd95518527607e..a605fd785b495324b5272880f1ffbe96b63cc474 100644
--- a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.1
+++ b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.1
@@ -1028,21 +1028,21 @@ Step Temp PotEng TotEng Press Volume
     9980    292.46983   -3166.1984   -2731.1717    368.01395    11956.352 
     9990    289.30448   -3163.4299   -2733.1114    428.95905     11956.65 
    10000     287.2552   -3162.6278   -2735.3575    452.79176    11956.957 
-Loop time of 3.10632 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
+Loop time of 3.05878 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
 
-Performance: 278.142 ns/day, 0.086 hours/ns, 3219.241 timesteps/s
-97.4% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
+Performance: 282.465 ns/day, 0.085 hours/ns, 3269.274 timesteps/s
+100.0% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
 
 MPI task timing breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
-Pair    | 2.5644     | 2.5644     | 2.5644     |   0.0 | 82.55
-Bond    | 0.00067711 | 0.00067711 | 0.00067711 |   0.0 |  0.02
-Neigh   | 0.048237   | 0.048237   | 0.048237   |   0.0 |  1.55
-Comm    | 0.090831   | 0.090831   | 0.090831   |   0.0 |  2.92
-Output  | 0.0091362  | 0.0091362  | 0.0091362  |   0.0 |  0.29
-Modify  | 0.34473    | 0.34473    | 0.34473    |   0.0 | 11.10
-Other   |            | 0.04829    |            |       |  1.55
+Pair    | 2.5225     | 2.5225     | 2.5225     |   0.0 | 82.47
+Bond    | 0.00078869 | 0.00078869 | 0.00078869 |   0.0 |  0.03
+Neigh   | 0.047811   | 0.047811   | 0.047811   |   0.0 |  1.56
+Comm    | 0.088761   | 0.088761   | 0.088761   |   0.0 |  2.90
+Output  | 0.0088358  | 0.0088358  | 0.0088358  |   0.0 |  0.29
+Modify  | 0.34062    | 0.34062    | 0.34062    |   0.0 | 11.14
+Other   |            | 0.04948    |            |       |  1.62
 
 Nlocal:    500 ave 500 max 500 min
 Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
diff --git a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.2 b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.2
index d08934034cdf82fd15a60616a8dd886a5afa85c7..ae09d51ee1180c669817e8d344bb0c7e3a123e3a 100644
--- a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.2
+++ b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.2
@@ -1028,21 +1028,21 @@ Step Temp PotEng TotEng Press Volume
     9980    302.79215   -3141.6801   -2691.2997   -549.31453    12094.705 
     9990    298.76705   -3137.9719   -2693.5785   -471.44792    12095.532 
    10000    293.75232   -3132.9975   -2696.0631   -368.66716     12096.35 
-Loop time of 3.10632 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
+Loop time of 3.0586 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
 
-Performance: 278.142 ns/day, 0.086 hours/ns, 3219.240 timesteps/s
+Performance: 282.482 ns/day, 0.085 hours/ns, 3269.465 timesteps/s
 100.0% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
 
 MPI task timing breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
-Pair    | 2.5424     | 2.5424     | 2.5424     |   0.0 | 81.85
-Bond    | 0.00070071 | 0.00070071 | 0.00070071 |   0.0 |  0.02
-Neigh   | 0.053134   | 0.053134   | 0.053134   |   0.0 |  1.71
-Comm    | 0.089015   | 0.089015   | 0.089015   |   0.0 |  2.87
-Output  | 0.0091839  | 0.0091839  | 0.0091839  |   0.0 |  0.30
-Modify  | 0.34466    | 0.34466    | 0.34466    |   0.0 | 11.10
-Other   |            | 0.06725    |            |       |  2.16
+Pair    | 2.5213     | 2.5213     | 2.5213     |   0.0 | 82.43
+Bond    | 0.00067282 | 0.00067282 | 0.00067282 |   0.0 |  0.02
+Neigh   | 0.052297   | 0.052297   | 0.052297   |   0.0 |  1.71
+Comm    | 0.089669   | 0.089669   | 0.089669   |   0.0 |  2.93
+Output  | 0.0087938  | 0.0087938  | 0.0087938  |   0.0 |  0.29
+Modify  | 0.33955    | 0.33955    | 0.33955    |   0.0 | 11.10
+Other   |            | 0.04631    |            |       |  1.51
 
 Nlocal:    500 ave 500 max 500 min
 Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
diff --git a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.3 b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.3
index 6347f3ada61dca57ad51ce69246fe4319ba1b806..53ae2e33fb84f6a1a768c2d88cbd67a886b0e3a4 100644
--- a/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.3
+++ b/examples/USER/misc/grem/lj-temper/screen.3
@@ -1028,21 +1028,21 @@ Step Temp PotEng TotEng Press Volume
     9980    315.32365   -3116.6383   -2647.6183   -581.88834    12177.944 
     9990    318.62429   -3116.9494   -2643.0199   -645.86627    12179.479 
    10000    319.22187   -3118.2624    -2643.444   -686.57936    12180.999 
-Loop time of 3.10616 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
+Loop time of 3.0588 on 1 procs for 10000 steps with 500 atoms
 
-Performance: 278.157 ns/day, 0.086 hours/ns, 3219.412 timesteps/s
+Performance: 282.464 ns/day, 0.085 hours/ns, 3269.256 timesteps/s
 100.0% CPU use with 1 MPI tasks x no OpenMP threads
 
 MPI task timing breakdown:
 Section |  min time  |  avg time  |  max time  |%varavg| %total
 ---------------------------------------------------------------
-Pair    | 2.4962     | 2.4962     | 2.4962     |   0.0 | 80.36
-Bond    | 0.00079823 | 0.00079823 | 0.00079823 |   0.0 |  0.03
-Neigh   | 0.052682   | 0.052682   | 0.052682   |   0.0 |  1.70
-Comm    | 0.088331   | 0.088331   | 0.088331   |   0.0 |  2.84
-Output  | 0.0086985  | 0.0086985  | 0.0086985  |   0.0 |  0.28
-Modify  | 0.33498    | 0.33498    | 0.33498    |   0.0 | 10.78
-Other   |            | 0.1245     |            |       |  4.01
+Pair    | 2.4462     | 2.4462     | 2.4462     |   0.0 | 79.97
+Bond    | 0.00065017 | 0.00065017 | 0.00065017 |   0.0 |  0.02
+Neigh   | 0.052088   | 0.052088   | 0.052088   |   0.0 |  1.70
+Comm    | 0.08725    | 0.08725    | 0.08725    |   0.0 |  2.85
+Output  | 0.0084825  | 0.0084825  | 0.0084825  |   0.0 |  0.28
+Modify  | 0.33259    | 0.33259    | 0.33259    |   0.0 | 10.87
+Other   |            | 0.1315     |            |       |  4.30
 
 Nlocal:    500 ave 500 max 500 min
 Histogram: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
diff --git a/src/USER-MISC/temper_grem.cpp b/src/USER-MISC/temper_grem.cpp
index 0ced3162e536a80660f175424a08aed983b0d8f6..4f589d9a057d7e5d6a2ec705a2baeabd4600c269 100644
--- a/src/USER-MISC/temper_grem.cpp
+++ b/src/USER-MISC/temper_grem.cpp
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 using namespace LAMMPS_NS;
 
-#define TEMPER_DEBUG 1
+//#define TEMPER_DEBUG 1
 
 /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- */