[Pw_forum] HSE calculation

jqli14 at fudan.edu.cn jqli14 at fudan.edu.cn
Thu Jan 5 13:06:02 CET 2017


Dear Quantum Espresso users,
      When I did a HSE calculation, I found it was very expensive. I am not sure whether I did it in the right way, and could anyone give me some advice on the speeding up the calculation?
The following is my input file. Thank you for your consideration!

Best wishes!
Jiqiang Li
Fudan University, China
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
&CONTROL
                       title = '1'
                 calculation = 'scf'
                restart_mode = 'from_scratch'
                      outdir = './1'
                  pseudo_dir = './'
                      prefix = '1'
                     tstress = .true.
                     tprnfor = .true.
                   disk_io   =  'none'
                    verbosity = 'high'

 /
 &SYSTEM
                       ibrav = 0
                         nat = 64
                        ntyp = 4
                     ecutwfc = 40
                       nosym  = .true.
                       tot_charge = 2
occupations='smearing', smearing='gaussian', degauss=0.0015

    input_dft = 'hse'
         nqx1 = 1
         nqx2 = 1
         nqx3 = 1
   exx_fraction = 0.25

 /
 &ELECTRONS
             diagonalization = 'david'
                conv_thr = 1.0D-10
       !         mixing_beta = 0.3
 /
!&IONS
!                ion_dynamics = 'bfgs'
! /

ATOMIC_SPECIES
Cu    63.546    Cu.nc.pbe.UPF
Zn    65.38     Zn.nc.pbe.UPF
Sn    118.710   Sn.nc.pbe.UPF
S     32.06     S.nc.pbe.UPF


K_POINTS gamma








 CELL_PARAMETERS angstrom
   10.8901996613000       0.000000000000000E+000  0.000000000000000E+000
  7.540540000000000E-005   10.8900995252000       0.000000000000000E+000
 -1.330617000000000E-004 -6.450591000000001E-004   10.8617000380000

 ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
 Cu   0.501822825617239       8.209585049845000E-004 -3.587372715888000E-004
 Cu   0.247123584741201       0.245878105489351       0.497638837593854
 Cu  -3.300201265132100E-003  0.246297973190239       0.747736115954145
 Cu   0.249999956404917      -9.075512491000000E-007  0.252075935894797
 Cu   0.998167806938834      -8.247521468438000E-004 -3.614930078269000E-004
 Cu   0.750818514719231       0.248169430879793       0.500387215747760
 Cu   0.503702437589932       0.246700288309942       0.752294883959966
 Cu   0.750000142082280      -5.261305244000000E-007  0.250013471551898
 Cu   0.504110794881591       0.497130019670560       2.387199659440000E-003
 Cu   0.252864021824887       0.754114287465916       0.497641282622189
 Cu  -3.704195077655900E-003  0.753301366753437       0.752296142763722
 Cu   0.249999236820237       0.499998914444942       0.250013182582039
 Cu   0.995875748692389       0.502868653338768       2.390474663852800E-003
 Cu   0.749173286025747       0.751824906786787       0.500389207464035
 Cu   0.503301976072833       0.753704886063385       0.747732698188728
 Cu   0.750000264340525       0.499999872289094       0.247953552793443
 S    0.121607711130560       0.119066726107911       0.128004116420937
 S    0.377410970694754       0.368337305224885       0.623452478431281
 S    0.126885481660098       0.128142136277065       0.628104013094463
 S    0.377653504065843       0.379487027813697       0.128526410123051
 S    0.372131518633960       0.127780399961450       0.372629646011111
 S    0.118342036620952       0.372594923808515       0.876575437772911
 S    0.129491327114066       0.372352660069188       0.371503083918088
 S    0.379334214207609       0.122123268492755       0.871079119116580
 S    0.622980711218032       0.121230496230355       0.128057562219561
 S    0.872125990350811       0.370669474457333       0.628947185465573
 S    0.627135346433278       0.128362738539397       0.627319397985374
 S    0.877782158592530       0.377872619579312       0.127400953525378
 S    0.871236086814705       0.127025188823458       0.371968945581645
 S    0.621861966674097       0.376885089946700       0.871927004252818
 S    0.630936881905509       0.371604494475657       0.372021999310852
 S    0.878366210795192       0.122870165561448       0.872709760521635
 S    0.122354911128635       0.620512219317389       0.128523510696737
 S    0.373121190301768       0.871857201740837       0.628100325702825
 S    0.122595407121820       0.631661221636976       0.623457680920035
 S    0.378401629960358       0.880931755370115       0.128007691557354
 S    0.370516759927977       0.627650572115622       0.371503234800683
 S    0.120676019249323       0.877880018784136       0.871080486353522
 S    0.127877053082689       0.872222465737074       0.372628362873367
 S    0.381665109983142       0.627410813576234       0.876573570642188
 S    0.622225243791753       0.622126275574244       0.127398395493092
 S    0.872872581014923       0.871637376796884       0.627316989829439
 S    0.627882496273248       0.629329558823215       0.628949791420298
 S    0.877028056968618       0.878769311284339       0.128059546753167
 S    0.869072985188352       0.628398420306380       0.372023399476006
 S    0.621642750204393       0.877133981256401       0.872711115745701
 S    0.628774116539949       0.872978079000506       0.371969741830591
 S    0.878145790717181       0.623118862812509       0.871926456963634
 Sn  -7.608358306536000E-004  3.222581925182000E-004  0.499443342221132
 Sn   0.256283989515477       0.242473334236634       7.086312024705200E-003
 Sn   0.250000147719144       0.499998628230229       0.750015148413511
 Sn   0.500756332281728      -3.228649230890000E-004  0.499443668263479
 Sn   0.749674703021384       0.249241762433395       5.853144321951000E-004
 Sn  -7.528252332882800E-003  0.493714016457111       0.492943834309768
 Sn   0.243712085123441       0.757526932064565       7.088098855306700E-003
 Sn   0.507524071793615       0.506285644594180       0.492942589729261
 Sn   0.750319939734500       0.750758314128771       5.864075895717000E-004
 Zn  -8.444909379011000E-004  0.248644383328342       0.249824392514012
 Zn   0.501355703397740       0.249153332059540       0.250202955214345
 Zn   0.750000814591615       0.499998819958268       0.751230280703815
 Zn  -1.354273739554800E-003  0.750845148370982       0.250202011729470
 Zn   0.250001030302999       0.999999919970564       0.748797640094973
 Zn   0.500847542910512       0.751353999698878       0.249827089512433
 Zn   0.750000701673651       6.633853790000001E-008  0.750013712421637


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