Hi Paolo,<br>
<br>
exmaple08?? What is that? I cannot understand what you are implying to me. Can you please explain it in details?<br>
I want to calculate the projected density of states.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
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   2. Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not        writable<br>      (Sylvian Cadars)<br>   3. Re: Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not<br>      writable (Paolo Giannozzi)<br>   4. Re: Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not<br>
      writable (Duy Le)<br>   5. Re: V -  cohesive energy (Paolo Giannozzi)<br>   6. Calculating Projected density of states in Quantum        espresso<br>      (Shaptrishi Sharma)<br>   7. Re: Calculating Projected density of states in Quantum<br>
      espresso (Paolo Giannozzi)<br>   8. Xcrysden crashes! (Bertrand SITAMTZE)<br> <br> <br> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <br> Message: 1<br> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:42:00 -0500<br>
 From: Rafael Julian Gonzalez Hernandez <<a href="mailto:rgonzalezh@unal.edu.co">rgonzalezh@unal.edu.co</a>><br> Subject: [Pw_forum] V -  cohesive energy<br> To: <a href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</a><br>
 Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:f542f9ef71d6.4a9cec68@unal.edu.co">f542f9ef71d6.4a9cec68@unal.edu.co</a>><br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br> <br> Hi,<br> <br>
I am calculating cohesive energy for V in bcc structure. The electronic
configuration for the V isolated atom is  [Ar] 3d3 4s2.<br> <br> 1) I found for V isolated atom:<br> <br> !    total energy        = -27.27735288 Ry<br>     total magnetization = 5.00 Bohr mag/cell<br> and,<br>     cohesive energy     = 5.28  (5.31 exp.)<br>
 <br> However, should I find a total magnetization = 3 in the isolated atom?<br> <br> 2) With the restriction (tot_magnetization=3) in my input file. I found:<br> <br> !    total energy        = -27.22435471 Ry<br>     total magnetization = 3.00 Bohr mag/cell<br>
 and,<br>     cohesive energy     = 6.00  (5.31 exp.)<br> <br> why is this big difference in cohesive energy?<br> <br> Rafael J. Gonzalez<br> <br> ====================================================<br> Rafael Julian Gonzalez    Tel:+57(1)3165000<br>
 Department of Physics<br> Universidad Nacional de Colombia<br> email: <a href="mailto:rgonzalezh@unal.edu.co">rgonzalezh@unal.edu.co</a><br> ====================================================<br> <br> <br> <br> ------------------------------<br>
 <br> Message: 2<br> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:25:19 +0200<br> From: Sylvian Cadars <<a href="mailto:sylvian.cadars@cnrs-orleans.fr">sylvian.cadars@cnrs-orleans.fr</a>><br> Subject: [Pw_forum] Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not<br>
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 <br> Hi,<br> I recently started to get the same systematic error on all calculations<br> that I am running, whereas the exact same calcuation was running<br> successfully before, and I can't figure out what happened in the<br>
 meantime.  The error is the following:<br> The calculation crashes with error message (in a CRASH file) before<br> anything can be written in the output file:<br> <br>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
     task #        12<br>     from outdir:  : error #         1<br>     /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/jobID/ non existent or non writable<br>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
 <br> However the specified outdir directory, created with the environment<br> variable ESPRESSO_TMPDIR actually DOES exist and IS writable (I even got<br> the same error when forcing it to be writable for u,g,o, and a).<br>
 The same error occurs if I define the outdir directory in the input file as:<br> outdir = '/work/scadars/espresso_tmp/'<br> and again,  /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/ exists and is writable, since<br> "ls -l /work/scadars/" gives:<br>
 <br> drwxrwxrwx 19 scadars dev 32768 sep  1 16:32 espresso_tmp<br> <br> On the other hand, the program runs successfully if I use the current<br> directory as the temporary directory (by omitting definitions of outdir<br>
 and ESPRESSO_TMPDIR) or if I use a temporary directory located in my<br> home directory...<br> <br> Could you please help me figure out what is going wrong here?<br> Thanks.<br> Best regards.<br> <br> <br> <br> --<br> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
 *Dr. Sylvian CADARS*<br> CEMHTI-CNRS<br> 1D, Av. de la Recherche Scientifique<br> 45071 Orl?ans Cedex 2, France<br> email: <a href="mailto:sylvian.cadars@cnrs-orleans.fr">sylvian.cadars@cnrs-orleans.fr</a><br> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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 <br> Sylvian Cadars wrote:<br> <br> > However the specified outdir directory, created with the environment<br> > variable ESPRESSO_TMPDIR actually DOES exist<br> <br> you are running in parallel. If your "outdir" is on a local<br>
 filesystem, you have to create one for each processor.<br> <br> P.<br> --<br> Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy<br> <br> <br> ------------------------------<br> <br> Message: 4<br> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:35:58 -0400<br>
 From: Duy Le <<a href="mailto:ttduyle@gmail.com">ttduyle@gmail.com</a>><br> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Temporary directory supposedly non existent or<br>        not     writable<br> To: PWSCF Forum <<a href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</a>><br>
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 <br> Hi,<br> It seems like pw.x was looking for /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/jobID/, so<br> make sure that you create this directory "jobID"<br> If you are running parrallel, you also need to make sure this directory is<br>
 reachable by all nodes.<br> Best,<br> <br> <br> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Sylvian Cadars <<br> <a href="mailto:sylvian.cadars@cnrs-orleans.fr">sylvian.cadars@cnrs-orleans.fr</a>> wrote:<br> <br> >  Hi,<br>
 > I recently started to get the same systematic error on all calculations<br> > that I am running, whereas the exact same calcuation was running<br> > successfully before, and I can't figure out what happened in the meantime.<br>
 > The error is the following:<br> > The calculation crashes with error message (in a CRASH file) before<br> > anything can be written in the output file:<br> ><br> ><br> >  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
 >      task #        12<br> >      from outdir:  : error #         1<br> >      /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/jobID/ non existent or non writable<br> ><br> >  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
 ><br> > However the specified outdir directory, created with the environment<br> > variable ESPRESSO_TMPDIR actually DOES exist and IS writable (I even got the<br> > same error when forcing it to be writable for u,g,o, and a).<br>
 > The same error occurs if I define the outdir directory in the input file<br> > as:<br> > outdir = '/work/scadars/espresso_tmp/'<br> > and again,  /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/ exists and is writable, since "ls<br>
 > -l /work/scadars/" gives:<br> ><br> > drwxrwxrwx 19 scadars dev 32768 sep  1 16:32 espresso_tmp<br> ><br> > On the other hand, the program runs successfully if I use the current<br> > directory as the temporary directory (by omitting definitions of outdir and<br>
 > ESPRESSO_TMPDIR) or if I use a temporary directory located in my home<br> > directory...<br> ><br> > Could you please help me figure out what is going wrong here?<br> > Thanks.<br> > Best regards.<br>
 ><br> ><br> ><br> > --<br> > ------------------------------<br> > *Dr. Sylvian CADARS*<br> > CEMHTI-CNRS<br> > 1D, Av. de la Recherche Scientifique<br> > 45071 Orl?ans Cedex 2, France<br> > email: <a href="mailto:sylvian.cadars@cnrs-orleans.fr">sylvian.cadars@cnrs-orleans.fr</a><br>
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 <br> Rafael Julian Gonzalez Hernandez wrote:<br> <br> > 1) I found for V isolated atom:<br> ><br> > !    total energy        = -27.27735288 Ry<br> >      total magnetization = 5.00 Bohr mag/cell<br> > [...]<br>
 > However, should I find a total magnetization = 3 in the isolated atom?<br> <br> calculations on isolated atoms with plane waves are tricky.<br> Compare your results with what you get with the atomic code,<br> in which you can fix occupancies at will<br>
 <br> Paolo<br> --<br> Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy<br> <br> <br> ------------------------------<br> <br> Message: 6<br> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:33:30 +0100<br> From: Shaptrishi Sharma <<a href="mailto:sh.shapt@gmail.com">sh.shapt@gmail.com</a>><br>
 Subject: [Pw_forum] Calculating Projected density of states in Quantum<br>        espresso<br> To: <a href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</a><br> Message-ID:<br>        <<a href="mailto:a8a0c4080909010933y4ff37a32rbab777753e5bba1a@mail.gmail.com">a8a0c4080909010933y4ff37a32rbab777753e5bba1a@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br> <br> Hi there,<br> <br> I have already performed scff calculation in quantum espresso, now I would<br> like to calculate projected density of states for my system, I serached it<br>
 in PWscf manual however it did nto help me at all. Can anybody please tell<br> me what will be the input file format for calculating PDOS.<br> <br> Thanks<br> Shaptarishi.<br> -------------- next part --------------<br> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>
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 <br> Message: 7<br> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:40:44 +0200<br> From: Paolo Giannozzi <<a href="mailto:giannozz@democritos.it">giannozz@democritos.it</a>><br> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Calculating Projected density of states in<br>
        Quantum espresso<br> To: PWSCF Forum <<a href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</a>><br> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4A9D4E8C.8020007@democritos.it">4A9D4E8C.8020007@democritos.it</a>><br>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br> <br> Shaptrishi Sharma wrote:<br> <br> > I would like to calculate projected density of states for my system<br> <br> example08<br> <br> --<br> Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy<br>
 <br> <br> ------------------------------<br> <br> Message: 8<br> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:52:43 -0700 (PDT)<br> From: Bertrand SITAMTZE <<a href="mailto:siyouber@yahoo.fr">siyouber@yahoo.fr</a>><br> Subject: [Pw_forum] Xcrysden crashes!<br>
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 <br> <br> Dear all,<br> <br>
I downloaded Xcrysden and installed it on one of our computer without
any problem. But? I have not been able to do it with the other
computer. The ./xcConfigure message does well, but running the
executable xcryxden crashes with a message similar to
this:/XCrySDen/xcrysden: line 163:  4240 Aborted (core
dumped) ${XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR}/bin/xcrys<br> ${XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR}/Tcl/xcInit.tcl $USE -- $XCRYSDEN_TOPD<br> DIR $XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH $ARGS > /dev/null<br> <br> I found that somebody got the same problem in 2007. See the link:<br>
 <br> <a href="http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2007-December/000440.html">http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2007-December/000440.html</a><br> <br> I went through the forum and I didn't got any solution.<br>
 <br> Thanking for any help<br> <br> <br> ************************<br> Bertrand SITAMTZE<br> PhD student<br> Department of Physics<br> University of Yaounde I-Cameroon<br> *************************<br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
 --- En date de?: Mar 1.9.09, Lorenzo Paulatto <<a href="mailto:paulatto@sissa.it">paulatto@sissa.it</a>> a ?crit?:<br> <br> De: Lorenzo Paulatto <<a href="mailto:paulatto@sissa.it">paulatto@sissa.it</a>><br> Objet: Re: [Pw_forum] Re : Re:Pseudopotential for Li<br>
 ?: "PWSCF Forum" <<a href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</a>><br> Date: Mardi 1 Septembre 2009, 12h16<br> <br> In data 01 settembre 2009 alle ore 12:11:33, Bertrand SITAMTZE?<br> <<a href="mailto:siyouber@yahoo.fr">siyouber@yahoo.fr</a>> ha scritto:<br>
 > Please, I would like you to help with the section concerning the 1 1S, 2?<br> > 2S and 2 2P reference states. I mean, what should I put in the following?<br> > section?<br> <br> That's exactly what I told you in the other email: you need two reference?<br>
 wavefunction per value of l<br> e.g. you could do something like this:<br> <br> 5<br> 1S? 1? 0? 2.00???0.00???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000<br> 2S? 2? 0? 0.80???0.00???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000<br> 2S? 2? 0? 0.00???0.10???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000<br>
 2P? 2? 1? 0.20???0.00???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000<br> 2P? 2? 1? 0.00???0.10???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000<br> <br> for the second reference (that one that does not have the eigenvalue?<br> energy) occupation must be zero. The reference energy (in my example 0.10)?<br>
 has to be chosen by testing and error; it will likely be in the range?<br> -0.20 to 1.0<br> <br> best regards<br> <br> --<br> Lorenzo Paulatto<br> SISSA? &? DEMOCRITOS (Trieste)<br> phone: +39 040 3787 511<br> skype: paulatz<br>
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