[Pw_forum] vc-relax analysis doubt

Prasenjit Ghosh prasenjit.jnc at gmail.com
Thu Aug 31 12:15:30 CEST 2017


Dear Ricardo,

Probably your scf is not converging in 100 cycles.....that's why it is
stopping.

Also, as an alternative, you can achieve the same by manually varying your
celldm(3), keeping the in plane lattice vectors fixed.

With regards,

Prasenjit

On 31 August 2017 at 15:28, Ricardo Afonso <ricardo at df.ufscar.br> wrote:

> Dear Lorenzo,
>
> I was not asking to someone to recompile my code and did what I have just
> done. By other reason, what I'm looking for is if there is any error in
> what I have just done, in terms of my input file. For example, changing
> upscale may bring some difficult to the code to keep the convergence.
> I did not mean to anyone testing my code or something like that. I'm sorry
> if that is what sounded. Anyway, I have gone through a good piece of this
> forum, but it does not seem that anyone came across the fact that after a
> few 'bfgs' cycles the limit of 'scf' cycles is reached. I'm open as wall
> for any reference, book, video or website of help, once this "error" keeps
> coming up for my structures.
>
> Otherwise, thank you for your answer.
>
> Regards.
>
> On 31 August 2017 at 05:08, Lorenzo Paulatto <lorenzo.paulatto at impmc.upmc.
> fr> wrote:
>
>> Dear Alfonso
>> do you really expect someone to:
>> 1. modify her code
>> 2. recompile it
>> 3. search and download all the pseudopotentials you used
>> 4. write a script to submit the job
>> 5. waste some valuable computing hours
>> 6. wait
>>
>> just for the sake of solving *your* problem?
>>
>> Try to make the list shorter if you need some help..
>>
>> kind regards
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto
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>
>
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> Ricardo Afonso
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> Federal University of Sao Carlos
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