<html><head><style id="axi-htmleditor-style" type="text/css">p { margin: 0px; }</style></head><body dir="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: fixed;"><div>Hi </div><div>I have run the in put on my mac with no problem.</div><div>The only change was the introducing the path for out directory.</div><div>outdir = '/Users/............................./tmp' ,</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div>Fariba</div><div>IASBS</div><div><br></div><!--axi-signature_placeholder--><br>On Fri, 24/08/2018 08:00 PM, Dan Gil <dan.gil9973@gmail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin-left: 10px; padding-left: 10px; border-left: 1px solid #ccc;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I am using pwscf v6.3, and running into some issues that I could not resolve.</div><div><br></div><div>I first ran simulations with hydroxylated sapphire (0001) surface with only 42 atoms successfully. Now I am trying to run an identical simulation with the same surface with 168 atoms (2x2 supercell) and here is where I am running into issues.</div><div><br></div><div>I've tried various settings, and I've gotten a variety of error messages. With the input format shown below, I get the following error from the HPC.</div><div><br></div><div>- - - - -</div><div>/tmp/slurm/job8327489/slurm_script: line 11: 111713 Killed                  pw.x < <a href="http://sapphire.pw.in" data-saferedirecturl="redir.hsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsapphire.pw.in" target="_blank">sapphire.pw.in</a> > sapphire.pw.out<br>slurmstepd: error: Exceeded step memory limit at some point.</div><div>- - - - -</div><div><br></div><div>When I run it on my personal computer, I get this error:</div><div><br></div><div>- - - - -</div><div>     task #         0<br>     from diropn : error #        10<br>     error opening sapphire/pwscf.wfc1<br></div><div>- - - - -</div><div><br></div><div>And indeed, there is no pwscf.wfc1 to be seen.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the input:</div><div><br></div><div>- - - - - <br></div><div>&control<br>    calculation='relax',<br>    wf_collect = .true. ,<br>    outdir = 'sapphire' ,<br>    restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,<br>    pseudo_dir = 'pseudo' ,<br>    disk_io = 'low' ,<br>    verbosity = 'low' ,<br>    max_seconds = 72000 ,<br> /<br> &system<br>    ibrav = 4 ,<br>    celldm(1)=17.99085377,<br>    celldm(3)=10,<br>    nat = 168 ,<br>    ntyp = 3 ,<br>    ecutwfc =50,<br>    ecutrho =400,<br>    smearing='mp',<br>    occupations='smearing',<br>    degauss=0.03,<br> /<br> &electrons<br>    diagonalization='david',<br>    conv_thr = 1.d-9,<br>    mixing_mode = 'plain',<br> /<br> &ions<br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>Al   26.981539   Al.pbe-n-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF<br>O    15.999000   O.pbe-n-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF<br>H     1.000800   H.pbe-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal<br>Al       0.000000000       0.000000000       0.095697893<br>Al       0.000000000       0.000000000       0.177259148<br>Al       0.000000000       0.000000000       0.040053860<br>Al       0.000000000       0.000000000       0.232903158<br>Al       0.333333311       0.166666621       0.187801968<br>Al       0.333333311       0.166666621       0.270721823<br>Al       0.333333311       0.166666621       0.131337383<br>Al       0.333333311       0.166666621       0.045832216<br>Al       0.166666682       0.333333364       0.002235215<br>Al       0.166666682       0.333333364       0.085155073<br>Al       0.166666682       0.333333364       0.227124825<br>Al       0.166666682       0.333333364       0.141619636<br>Al       0.500000000       0.000000000       0.095697893<br>Al       0.500000000       0.000000000       0.177259148<br>Al       0.500000000       0.000000000       0.040053860<br>Al       0.500000000       0.000000000       0.232903158<br>Al       0.833333311       0.166666621       0.187801968<br>Al       0.833333311       0.166666621       0.270721823<br>Al       0.833333311       0.166666621       0.131337383<br>Al       0.833333311       0.166666621       0.045832216<br>Al       0.666666682       0.333333364       0.002235215<br>Al       0.666666682       0.333333364       0.085155073<br>Al       0.666666682       0.333333364       0.227124825<br>Al       0.666666682       0.333333364       0.141619636<br>Al       0.500000000       0.500000000       0.095697893<br>Al       0.500000000       0.500000000       0.177259148<br>Al       0.500000000       0.500000000       0.040053860<br>Al       0.500000000       0.500000000       0.232903158<br>Al       0.833333311       0.666666621       0.187801968<br>Al       0.833333311       0.666666621       0.270721823<br>Al       0.833333311       0.666666621       0.131337383<br>Al       0.833333311       0.666666621       0.045832216<br>Al       0.666666682       0.833333364       0.002235215<br>Al       0.666666682       0.833333364       0.085155073<br>Al       0.666666682       0.833333364       0.2271248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