<div dir="ltr">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></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Giovanni Cantele <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it" target="_blank">giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">try to use the same input setting restart_mode=‘restart’. <div><br></div><div>It might work or not, because a robust restart procedure is implemented, but it requires that the code has</div><div>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>the restart procedure, can be obtained either by setting the variable max_seconds (in the case you have a queuing system</div><div>that allows you to submit jobs with limited duration) or by creating an empty file within outdir with name prefix.EXIT where</div><div>prefix is the same as in the input file. Of course both strategies are useless if the computer shuts down improperly.</div><div><br></div><div>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>copy the last geometry (ATOMIC_POSITIONS) and restart a calculation from scratch.</div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 11 Jul 2017, at 05:31, Shishir Timilsena <<a href="mailto:expressgucci@gmail.com" target="_blank">expressgucci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_9074403115535580729Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">How can i continue the relax calculation if the computer is hanged or showdown unknowingly ???<br><br>Shishir Timilsena, M.Sc<br>St.xavier's College<br>Kathmandu,Nepal<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:shishir.timilsena@gmail.com" target="_blank">shishir.timilsena@gmail.com</a><br>phone: <a href="tel:+977%20984-5196469" value="+9779845196469" target="_blank">+977 9845196469</a><br><br></div></div></div>
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