<div dir="ltr">Thank you for providing an important piece of information. The final step of variable-cell optimization has always been a significant source of trouble, producing in return a negligible amount of useful information, IMHO (at least for knowledgeable users). I was convinced that there was a problem only in the presence of constraints (see here:<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://qeforge.qe-forge.org/gf/project/q-e/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=170&start=0">http://qeforge.qe-forge.org/gf/project/q-e/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=170&start=0</a> ) but apparently the problem is more general. It is likely related to the way plane waves are distributed: the final run should perform the same calculation as a single scf step with final cell and coordinates and all other input data unchanged, but for some reason, it does something slightly different.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Paolo<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Cohen, Ronald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcohen@carnegiescience.edu" target="_blank">rcohen@carnegiescience.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Lowering ecutrho makes things worse not better. But I understand the problem better. It is a problem with load balancing. This problem only arises when R & G space division>1 . With R & G space division=1 it never crashes in this way. However, the performance with R & G space division=4 is astounding compared with R & G space division=1. I have 16 k-points, yet with npool=16 it takes 74 seconds for the first k-point, and with nppol=4 on 16 processors (R & G space division=4) it takes 16 seconds--a speedup of 4.6 with the same number of processors! Yet 20% of the time or so R & G space division>1 fails, presumably because of a load balancing problem. The solution is to rebalance the R & G space divisions. Is there a developer out there familiar with this?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"></span></div></blockquote></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><span><font color="#888888">Paolo Giannozzi, Dept. Chemistry&Physics&Environment,<br>
Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy<br>
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