<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Prof. Paolo Giannozzi:</div><div><br>Thanks for your reply.</div><div><br></div><div>But, according to the change of number of pools, I also changed the number of cores; therefore, plane waves, fft grid, etc. are distributed equally in both cases. Also, each diagonalization is carried out within the same number of cores.</div><div><br></div><div>At SCF step, most relevant values over k points are merged by use of mp_sum, mp_max, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>At least to me, this difference seems strange.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards.</div><div><br></div><div>H. Lee</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Paolo Giannozzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it" target="_blank">paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 20:29 +0200, H. Lee wrote:<br>
<br>
> Is this just an inevitable numerical noise?<br>
<br>
</span>very likely. Some numerical noise is always there, it<br>
is usually almost invisible, especially at scf convergence.<br>
In some known cases of special sensitivity to truncation<br>
and roundoff errors: noncolinear, spin-orbit, DFT+U, it<br>
is more visible while self-consistency is reached. No<br>
easy solution is known (to me at least)<br>
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P.<br>
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Paolo Giannozzi, Dept. Chemistry&Physics&Environment,<br>
Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy<br>
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