<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear QE users,<br><br></div>I am performing phonon calculations with the q-mesh of 2x2x1, for a semiconductor surface (vacuum in z-direction). I am running the job parallely on a stand alone machine with 12 processors. But the job gets killed with following error,<br>
<br> Representation # 1 mode # 1<br><br> Self-consistent Calculation<br><br> Pert. # 1: Fermi energy shift (Ry) = NaN NaN<br><br> iter # 1 total cpu time : 1938.8 secs <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 4.5<br>
thresh= 0.100E-01 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = NaN<br> kpoint 1 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 2 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 3 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br>
kpoint 4 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 5 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 6 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 7 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br>
kpoint 8 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 9 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 10 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br><br> Pert. # 1: Fermi energy shift (Ry) = NaN NaN<br>
<br> iter # 2 total cpu time : 5308.2 secs <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 200.0<br> thresh= 0.100E-01 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = NaN<br> kpoint 1 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br>
kpoint 2 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 3 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 4 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 5 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br>
kpoint 6 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 7 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 8 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br> kpoint 9 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br>
kpoint 10 ibnd 109 solve_linter: root not converged NaN<br><br> Pert. # 1: Fermi energy shift (Ry) = NaN NaN<br><br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
from broyden : error # 1<br> factorization<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br> stopping ...<br><br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
<br><br></div>I get the same error for the calculations on Gamma-point. I have tried using QE-4.3.2 as well as QE-5.0.2, but the error persists. Can anybody please tell me the possible source of error?<br><div><div><div>
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<br><br>-- <br>DAS<br></div><div>University of Pune<br></div><div>India<br>
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