My qe version is 5.0, and below is the results of last 3 iterations from the .out file.<div><div> iteration # 48 ecut= 30.00 Ry beta=0.10</div><div> Davidson diagonalization with overlap</div><div> ethr = 2.88E-04, avg # of iterations = 3.0</div>
<div><br></div><div> negative rho (up, down): 0.105E-01 0.000E+00</div><div><br></div><div> total cpu time spent up to now is 1975.6 secs</div><div><br></div><div> total energy = -76.44587029 Ry</div>
<div> Harris-Foulkes estimate = -76.46766502 Ry</div><div> estimated scf accuracy < 0.13146979 Ry</div><div><br></div><div> iteration # 49 ecut= 30.00 Ry beta=0.10</div><div> Davidson diagonalization with overlap</div>
<div> ethr = 2.88E-04, avg # of iterations = 1.0</div><div><br></div><div> negative rho (up, down): 0.105E-01 0.000E+00</div><div><br></div><div> total cpu time spent up to now is 2014.3 secs</div><div>
<br></div><div> total energy = -76.43340310 Ry</div><div> Harris-Foulkes estimate = -76.44879474 Ry</div><div> estimated scf accuracy < 0.08467546 Ry</div><div><br></div><div>
iteration # 50 ecut= 30.00 Ry beta=0.10</div><div> Davidson diagonalization with overlap</div><div> ethr = 2.65E-04, avg # of iterations = 1.0</div><div><br></div><div> negative rho (up, down): 0.105E-01 0.000E+00</div>
<div><br></div><div> total cpu time spent up to now is 2052.5 secs</div><div><br></div><div>As for other iterations, total energy and estimated accuracy oscillate. Do you think what Masoud said is the main problem?</div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Paolo Giannozzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giannozz@democritos.it" target="_blank">giannozz@democritos.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 14:22 -0400, Ruibin Liu wrote:<br>
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> I tried to do a scf calculation of C6H8 (CH2CHCHCHCHCH2) with the optimized structure [...] the calculation still cannot converge.<br>
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I have tried your data for a smaller cell (25x25x25 a.u.) and it<br>
converges without any problem<br>
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Paolo Giannozzi, IOM-Democritos and University of Udine, Italy<br>
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