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Why do you need such a big wavefunction cutoff? <br>
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ecutwfc=200 is pretty big (400 is extreme)...have you checked convergence? <br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 09, 2015 11:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> PWSCF Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Pw_forum] no scf started for huge system<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span id="_mce_caret"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello,<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I tried found out that when I increase ecutwfc to 400 I receive an error message:<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Initial potential from superposition of free atoms</span></p>
<p style="padding:0; margin:0">starting charge 875.99411, renormalised to 876.00000</p>
<p style="padding:0; margin:0">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
Error in routine diropn (3):<br>
wrong record length<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0">stopping ...<br>
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MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 0 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD <br>
with errorcode 1.</p>
<p style="padding:0; margin:0">NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes.<br>
You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on<br>
exactly when Open MPI kills them.<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Does anybody know what this means?<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks and Regards<br>
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10pt">-----Original message-----<br>
<span><strong>From:</strong> Ludwig, Stephan <stephan.ludwig@pi1.physik.uni-stuttgart.de></span><br>
<span><strong>Sent:</strong> Thursday 9th July 2015 12:42</span><br>
<span><strong>To:</strong> Forum, PWSCF (pw_forum@pwscf.org) <pw_forum@pwscf.org></span><br>
<span><strong>Subject:</strong> [Pw_forum] no scf started for huge system</span><br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span id="_mce_caret"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span id="_mce_caret"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I try to do scf calculation for an organic salt with 236 atoms in a unit cell.<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm working on a cluster using 45 procs for the calculation.<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Within the allowed time span (2 days) these procs do not even start the scf cycles.<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The last part of the output data is:<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Largest allocated arrays est. size (Mb) dimensions<br>
Kohn-Sham Wavefunctions 7508.34 Mb ( 935488, 526)<br>
NL pseudopotentials 20098.38 Mb ( 935488, 1408)<br>
Each V/rho on FFT grid 243.00 Mb (15925248)<br>
Each G-vector array 57.08 Mb ( 7481721)<br>
G-vector shells 14.43 Mb ( 1891088)<br>
Largest temporary arrays est. size (Mb) dimensions<br>
Auxiliary wavefunctions 30033.37 Mb ( 935488, 2104)<br>
Each subspace H/S matrix 67.55 Mb ( 2104, 2104)<br>
Each <psi_i|beta_j> matrix 11.30 Mb ( 1408, 526)<br>
Arrays for rho mixing 1944.00 Mb (15925248, 8)</span></p>
<p style="padding:0; margin:0">Check: negative/imaginary core charge= -0.000001 0.000000</p>
<p style="padding:0; margin:0">Initial potential from superposition of free atoms</p>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0">starting charge 875.99411, renormalised to 876.00000<br>
Starting wfc are 704 randomized atomic wfcs<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Then the job cancels due to time limit.<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I want to be sure that this happens just because of the fact that the system is too huge and not because I made some bad mistake.<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My input file looks like this:<br>
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title = 'etot_vs_ecutwfc' ,<br>
calculation = 'scf' ,<br>
wf_collect = .FALSE.,<br>
outdir = './' ,<br>
wfcdir = './' ,<br>
pseudo_dir = '/home/st/st_st/st_phy72394/pseudo/' ,<br>
prefix = 'MeDH-TTPetot_vs_ecutwfc' ,<br>
/<br>
&SYSTEM<br>
ibrav = -12,<br>
A = 32.783 ,<br>
B = 7.995 ,<br>
C = 11.170 ,<br>
cosAB = 0 ,<br>
cosAC = -0.132602381688 ,<br>
cosBC = 0 ,<br>
nat = 236,<br>
ntyp = 5,<br>
ecutwfc = 200,<br>
occupations = 'smearing' ,<br>
degauss = 0.02 ,<br>
smearing = 'gaussian' ,<br>
exxdiv_treatment = 'gygi-baldereschi' ,<br>
/<br>
&ELECTRONS<br>
conv_thr = 1.0D-8<br>
/<br>
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H 1.00790 H.pz-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF <br>
C 12.01100 C.pz-n-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF <br>
F 18.98800 F.pz-n-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF <br>
S 32.06500 S.pz-n-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF <br>
As 74.92200 As.pz-n-rrkjus_psl.0.2.UPF <br>
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S 21.67213 1.67902 10.70711<br>
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S 19.75130 0.27959 7.86510<br>
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S 20.13937 1.65658 0.08857<br>
S 3.74787 5.65383 0.08857<br>
S 25.96310 0.08881 6.99046<br>
S 9.57160 4.08606 6.99046<br>
S 26.70368 7.90569 1.45478<br>
S 10.31218 3.90844 1.45478<br>
S 25.56056 6.28376 4.68983<br>
S 9.16906 2.28651 4.68983<br>
S 24.81997 1.71074 10.22551<br>
S 8.42848 5.70799 10.22551<br>
S 12.08748 6.57702 3.54505<br>
S 28.47898 2.57977 3.54505<br>
S 11.34689 1.41748 9.08073<br>
S 27.73839 5.41473 9.08073<br>
S 11.74373 0.68898 1.53781<br>
S 28.13523 4.68623 1.53781<br>
S 11.00315 7.30552 7.07349<br>
S 27.39465 3.30827 7.07349<br>
C 2.50124 7.97352 2.72134<br>
C 18.89274 3.97627 2.72134<br>
C 1.76066 0.02098 8.25702<br>
C 18.15215 4.01823 8.25702<br>
H 2.98979 0.63970 2.22534<br>
H 19.38129 4.63695 2.22534<br>
H 2.24920 7.35480 7.76102<br>
H 18.64071 3.35755 7.76102<br>
H 1.85588 0.41427 3.28266<br>
H 18.24738 4.41152 3.28266<br>
H 1.11530 7.58023 8.81834<br>
H 17.50680 3.58298 8.81834<br>
H 2.05231 7.38359 2.11352<br>
H 18.44381 3.38634 2.11352<br>
H 1.31173 0.61091 7.64920<br>
H 17.70323 4.60816 7.64920<br>
F 32.09159 6.20228 3.55280<br>
F 15.70009 2.20503 3.55280<br>
F 31.35101 1.79222 9.08848<br>
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F 15.60767 4.61206 3.45094<br>
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C 27.39788 3.55859 2.60731<br>
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H 13.59248 1.04567 8.71759<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Has anybody made similar experiences? Any ideas how to come at least to a scf calculation?<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Does anybody know any tricks and hints for huge systems?<br>
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<p style="padding:0; margin:0"><span id="_mce_caret"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thanks and regards<br>
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