of equipartition is observed in Fig. \[fig:kinetic\_temperature\] and the distribution of velocity about a specified node follows a Maxwell distribution with simulated SD close to the theoretical value $\sqrt{k_{B}T/(m_{0}L_{i})}$ as shown in Fig. \[fig:velocity\_distribution\]. Simulated temperature, theoretical value of standard deviation (TSD), simulated SD and time $t_{\rm equ}$ for thermal equilibration are shown in Table \[table:2\] (for dislocations with equi-distant nodes (case (i)) and for dislocations with variable node spacing (case (ii)), in the latter case, the SD and TSD data refer to the node with the largest associated effective length. As we can see, simulated temperatures are very close to the given temperatures (maximum relative error is within 1%) and the simulated SD of velocity distribution has matches the theoretical values. A non-equidistant node distribution scheme has no detrimental influence on the agreement between theory and simulation. $t_{\rm equ}$ is mainly influenced by drag coefficient and decreases with increasing drag coefficient. The influence of dislocation segment length is also studied. Simulated temperature, TSD, simulated SD and $t_{\rm equ}$ for different dislocation segment lengths in a simulation of type (i) are shown in Table \[table:3\] where $\Delta t$=50fs and $T$=1200K. The table shows that different dislocation segment lengths have no 