[QE-users] differently complied QE

Lorenzo Paulatto paulatz at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 14:37:35 CET 2019


Hello Alex,
you should really provide more details to get a meaningful answer.

kind regards

On 07/01/2019 14:24, Aleksandra Oranskaia wrote:
> Hello dear users and developers of QE,
> 
> I have recently noticed that one and the same QE version that was 
> installed with different libraries, compilers, on different machines 
> (with very different hardware) not only gives different total energies 
> for the same inputs but also quite different optimized lattice constants 
> (say, 3.458 versus 3.453 that does not seem no be acceptable).
> 
> So the question is: how to know which installation accumulates some 
> small(?) numerical problems?
> In standard QE pw examples there is no example with variable-cell 
> relaxation done on “ideally” installed code, so there is no reference 
> point to reproduce.
> 
> 
> 
> Best,
> Alex.
> ___
> Aleksandra Oranskaia (M.Sc.)
> ChemS PhD student, KAUST
> Phone: +966 50 1335254
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