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Dear all,<br><br>After several  iterations of self-consistent calculation, there is an error encountered. And Information is <br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
     from  pzpotrf  : error #         1<br>
      problems computing cholesky decomposition<br>
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br>more detail also attached at the bottom. <br>How does this happen? How to cope with this?<br><br>thank you for reading.<br><br><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Lucida Handwriting,Cursive;">Vega Lew</span></font><br>PH.D Candidate in Chemical Engineering<br>
State Key Laboratory of Materials-oriented Chemical Engineering<br>College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering<br>Nanjing University of Technology, 210009, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China<br><br><br><br>Self-consistent Calculation<br> <br>     iteration #  1     ecut=    25.00 Ry     beta=0.30<br>     Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br>     ethr =  1.00E-02,  avg # of iterations =  3.0<br> <br>     negative rho (up, down):  0.621E-01 0.000E+00<br> <br>     total cpu time spent up to now is    755.25 secs<br> <br>     total energy              = -7247.96686204 Ry<br>     Harris-Foulkes estimate   = -7258.07931507 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <    22.98796274 Ry<br> <br>     iteration #  2     ecut=    25.00 Ry     beta=0.30<br>     Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br>     ethr =  2.39E-03,  avg # of iterations =  3.0<br> <br>     negative rho (up, down):  0.619E-01 0.000E+00<br> <br>     total cpu time spent up to now is   1311.84 secs<br> <br>     total energy              = -7252.71923993 Ry<br>     Harris-Foulkes estimate   = -7254.10096935 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <     4.63104492 Ry<br> <br>     iteration #  3     ecut=    25.00 Ry     beta=0.30<br>     Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br>     ethr =  4.82E-04,  avg # of iterations =  3.0<br> <br>     negative rho (up, down):  0.623E-01 0.000E+00<br> <br>     total cpu time spent up to now is   1824.24 secs<br> <br>     total energy              = -7253.30999271 Ry<br>     Harris-Foulkes estimate   = -7253.45932341 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <     0.71665018 Ry<br> <br>     iteration #  4     ecut=    25.00 Ry     beta=0.30<br>     Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br>     ethr =  7.47E-05,  avg # of iterations =  2.8<br> <br>     negative rho (up, down):  0.651E-01 0.000E+00<br> <br>     total cpu time spent up to now is   2335.96 secs<br> <br>     total energy              = -7253.35733981 Ry<br>     Harris-Foulkes estimate   = -7253.39732099 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <     0.25146001 Ry<br> <br>     iteration #  5     ecut=    25.00 Ry     beta=0.30<br>     Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br>     ethr =  2.62E-05,  avg # of iterations =  2.0<br> <br>     negative rho (up, down):  0.642E-01 0.000E+00<br> <br>     total cpu time spent up to now is   2852.68 secs<br> <br>     total energy              = -7253.38499360 Ry<br>     Harris-Foulkes estimate   = -7253.39168977 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <     0.04134125 Ry<br> <br>     iteration #  6     ecut=    25.00 Ry     beta=0.30<br>     Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br>     ethr =  4.31E-06,  avg # of iterations = 14.0<br> <br>     negative rho (up, down):  0.646E-01 0.000E+00<br> <br>     total cpu time spent up to now is   3654.50 secs<br> <br>     total energy              = -7253.38599588 Ry<br>     Harris-Foulkes estimate   = -7253.38854981 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <     0.01379492 Ry<br> <br>     iteration #  7     ecut=    25.00 Ry     beta=0.30<br>     Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br> <br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>     from  pzpotrf  : error #         1<br>      problems computing cholesky decomposition<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<style>.hmmessage P{margin:0px;padding:0px}body.hmmessage{FONT-SIZE: 10pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma}</style><br /><hr />Explore the seven wonders of the world <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body>
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