<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">it depends, it is not clear whether your job crashes because you have a maximum run time or because there are other issues. Did you check the presence of any error in the output? Can it be a memory issue (that means that you requires much more memory than physically available on your computer)?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Without further details, it is quite difficult to answer your question</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Giovanni</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Jul 2017, at 15:56, Shishir Timilsena <<a href="mailto:expressgucci@gmail.com" class="">expressgucci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">our computers are not so fast..so calculations take too much time. on the other hand the only fast computer we have has 32 gb ram and octa-processor . some days ago i was doing relaxation calculation and the computer hanged after 5 hours and my all tasks gone in mud..is there any solution for it ???<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Giovanni Cantele <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it" target="_blank" class="">giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">try to use the same input setting restart_mode=‘restart’. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It might work or not, because a robust restart procedure is implemented, but it requires that the code has</div><div class="">not been stopped while writing to disk some needed files. Just for information, a ‘clean’ code exit, that ensures the correct working of</div><div class="">the restart procedure, can be obtained either by setting the variable max_seconds (in the case you have a queuing system</div><div class="">that allows you to submit jobs with limited duration) or by creating an empty file within outdir with name prefix.EXIT where</div><div class="">prefix is the same as in the input file. Of course both strategies are useless if the computer shuts down improperly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In your case, if the relaxation calculation has gone beyond the first step, that means that you find new geometries in output, you can also</div><div class="">copy the last geometry (ATOMIC_POSITIONS) and restart a calculation from scratch.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Giovanni</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="">On 11 Jul 2017, at 05:31, Shishir Timilsena <<a href="mailto:expressgucci@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">expressgucci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_9074403115535580729Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr" class="">How can i continue the relax calculation if the computer is hanged or showdown unknowingly ???<br class=""><br class="">Shishir Timilsena, M.Sc<br class="">St.xavier's College<br class="">Kathmandu,Nepal<br class="">e-mail: <a href="mailto:shishir.timilsena@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">shishir.timilsena@gmail.com</a><br class="">phone: <a href="tel:+977%20984-5196469" value="+9779845196469" target="_blank" class="">+977 9845196469</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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