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Dear developer and users:<br><br>Exactly follow the userguide, I am trying to calculate the phonon.<br><br>Firstly I make a self-consistent calculation with <br><pre>K_POINTS automatic<br>8 8 8 0 0 0<br><br>After the calculation convergent, I start the ph.x calculation. But the calculation is extremely slow, thus I goto<br>the output-file, and find a strange thing.<br><br>For some q-qoint, I find;<br>number of k points= 1024 Marzari-Vanderbilt smearing, width (Ry)= 0.0500<br><br>I understand that phonon may break some symmetry, but how it can go to 1024-k-point when I use 8-8-8 mesh?<br><br>I already use "start_q=X, last_q=X, recover=.true.," to separate q-point. I also use parallel to speed up the calculation.<br>But it is still extremely slow. My system has only 12 atoms per unit cell, and it seems that some q-point <br>(where it requires 1024 k-points) may need one month!<br><br>I don't know if there is other method to speed up the calculation?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Xiangang Wan<br></pre><br><br><br> </div></body>
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