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Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I am relaxing a 60 atom supercell (graphene grain boundary) to make the total force on atoms mainly 0.001 Ry/au. However the vc-relax stopped after 4 days of execution and without reaching the desired force threshold. The following output was obtained :</div><div><br></div><div>1st relaxation process:</div><div><br></div><div>Total force 0.091   Pressure =- 114.1 kbar</div><div><br></div><div>2nd relaxation process:</div><div><br></div><div>total force 0.1   Pressure = -55 kbar</div><div><br></div><div>(new enthalpy < old enthalpy)</div><div><br></div><div>3rd process: </div><div><br></div><div>total force = 0.058   pressure = -11 kbar</div><div><br></div><div>Then in the 4th process, calculations stopped. Here are the last few lines of the output:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">iteration #<span>  </span>2<span>    
</span>ecut=<span>    </span>36.75 Ry<span>     </span>beta=0.30<br>
<span> </span><span>   
</span>Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>5 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>1 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>3 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>1 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>4 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>4 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>4 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>4 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>5 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>5 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>2 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>2 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>ethr =<span>  </span>2.90E-04,<span> 
</span>avg # of iterations = 17.6<br>
<br>
<span>     </span>negative rho (up, down):<span>  </span>0.132E-01 0.000E+00<br>
<br>
<span>     </span>total cpu time spent up to now is
382283.13 secs<br>
<br>
<span>     </span>total energy<span>              </span>=<span>    </span>-676.77947904 Ry<br>
<span>     </span>Harris-Foulkes estimate<span>   </span>=<span>   
</span>-676.82846513 Ry<br>
<span>     </span>estimated scf accuracy<span>    </span><<span>      
</span>0.17363554 Ry<br>
<br>
<span>     </span>iteration #<span>  </span>3<span>    
</span>ecut=<span>    </span>36.75 Ry<span>     </span>beta=0.30<br>
<span>     </span>Davidson diagonalization with
overlap<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>1 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>1 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>2 eigenvalues not converged<br>
<span>     </span>c_bands:<span>  </span>3 eigenvalues not converged<br></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The input of the vc-relax is:</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">&control<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>prefix='GBphonon',<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>calculation='vc-relax',<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>restart_mode='from_scratch',<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>tstress=.true.,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>tprnfor=.true,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>pseudo_dir =
'/exp/home/caiapo/emoujaes/espresso/espresso-4.3/Pseudo/',<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>outdir='/exp/home/caiapo/emoujaes/espresso/Moujaes-Results/',<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>          </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span> </span>/<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span> </span>&system<span>   
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>ibrav= 0, celldm(1) =1.889725989, nat=60,
ntyp= 1, ecutwfc =36.749309, occupations='smearing', smearing='mp',degauss=0.01<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">/<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span> </span>&electrons<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>conv_thr=1.D-6,<span>     </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>mixing_beta=0.3D0,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>    </span>diago_david_ndim=2,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>      </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span> </span>/<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">&ions<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span> </span>ion_dynamics='bfgs'<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">/<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">$cell<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">cell_dynamics='bfgs',<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">/<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">CELL_PARAMETERS
(alat)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>  </span>24.064488464<span>  
</span>0.000772242<span>   </span>0.000000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>   </span>0.000000000<span>  
</span>6.503051170<span>   </span>0.000000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>   </span>0.000000000<span>  
</span>0.000000000<span>   </span>8.470514812<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>     </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ATOMIC_SPECIES<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span> </span>C<span> 
</span>12.0107<span>  </span>C.blyp-mt.UPF<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ATOMIC_POSITIONS
(angstrom)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">C<span>      </span>-11.330758616<span>  </span>-3.527803203<span>  
</span>0.000000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">C<span>      </span>-10.659793092<span>  </span>-1.160339161<span>  
</span>0.000000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">C<span>      </span>-12.039843315<span>  </span>-7.112619698<span>  
</span>0.000000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">C<span>      </span>-12.041158182<span>  </span>-5.732701936<span>  
</span>0.000000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">C<span>      </span>-10.941089654<span>  </span>-4.881442842<span>  
</span>0.000000000<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">......</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Please can anyone advice me on this? Shall I start with the new configuration and start relaxing again?</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Regards</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Elie Moujaes</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">University of Nott</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">University Park </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">NGT 3RD</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></p></span></p></div>                                        </div></body>
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