<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I would defend the perhaps bold statement that the mixer in
Wien2k is state of the art. It has sophisticated implicit and explicit trust
region controls (not all details published yet), so needs essentially no user input. It is also fast, and the
algorithm which does simultaneous density and atomic optimization is powerful.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">That said, it is also complicated. Rebuilding it from scratch
for another DFT code would be a significant task.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In addition, maintaining it in Wien2k would not be trivial
if I stopped work. While I am not retiring tomorrow, I also won’t keep working
into my old age.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What to do? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">One thought is to create OpenMix. This would be
an open source (e.g. GitHub) code which includes the trust region controls of
the mixer in Wien2k with the existing MSEC, MSR1 algorithms as well as others
such as DIIS. Build a core with hooks so any and every DFT
code can directly use the algorithms via either reverse or forward
communication.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I am pondering this, and would be interested to know if you
think it would be a good idea and would be supportive.</p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Professor Laurence Marks<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>Northwestern University<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu/" target="_blank">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a><div>Corrosion in 4D: <a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu/MURI" target="_blank">www.numis.northwestern.edu/MURI</a><br>Co-Editor, Acta Cryst A<br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought"<br>Albert Szent-Gyorgi</div></div></div></div>