<div dir="ltr"><div>A hard crash after 7 days seems to me the proper punishment for launching a NEB calculation with an initial barrier of 5600 eV. By the way: are you sure that a path length > 100 a.u. is what you want? <br><br></div>Paolo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Francesco Pelizza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francesco.pelizza@strath.ac.uk" target="_blank">francesco.pelizza@strath.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>The interruption occurs at the 7th day, I can't say if exactly at
      168 hours or around, but not with a discrepancies of 2-3 days so
      far.</p>
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    <p>I use mpirun on 8 or 12 threads depending on the machine and I
      leave NEB to default internal settings<br>
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    Attached input file and first output as it came with the
    interruption.<br>
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    the command is normally:<br>
    ""mpirun -np 8 neb.x -inp <a href="http://input_file.in" target="_blank">input_file.in</a> >output_file.out""<br>
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    So potentially it could be just and hardware fail? sounds
    reasonable, the only strange thing is that I have the crash in a
    week and not casually, but I appreciate the information you gave me<br>
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    Thank you<div><div class="h5"><br>
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    <div>On 23/09/16 17:57, Paolo Giannozzi
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Francesco Pelizza
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            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">After 7 days, neb.x
              stops to work, no closing/cleaning comments, <br>
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            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">nothing else, just it
              stops to work.<br>
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            <div>reproducibly, for all jobs, after exactly 7 days and
              never 9 or 4? under which conditions? serial, parallel,
              with image parallelization, ... ?<br>
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            <div>A parallel code may hang if any two processes that
              should go in parallel for some reason don't. This may be
              caused by subtle buildups of numerical differences,
              coupled to replicated checks; or by a process dying for
              whatever reason.<br>
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            <div>Paolo<br>
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              I happens with several systems, is not a problem of
              convergence of a<br>
              determined image or anything else, the output file is just<br>
              interrupted/truncated. <br>
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              I can anyway easily restart the job, its not the issue of
              loosing CPU<br>
              time, but when you queue for HPC it becomes a problem.<br>
              <br>
              <br>
              Anyway, Somebody encountered that problem? Is a known
              problem?<br>
              <br>
              Some feedback?<br>
              <br>
              <br>
              Thank you<br>
              <br>
              <br>
              Francesco Pelizza<br>
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