<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you Paolo,</div><div><br></div><div>I wasn't initially sure that it was really a RAM problem, because I tried reducing mixing_ndim but this didn't have any impact on the "Estimated total dynamical RAM." I am sorry that this seemed thoughtless.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried again with K_POINTS gamma - it is running now without any problems so far!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks as always,</div><div><br></div><div>Dan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:21 AM Paolo Giannozzi <<a href="mailto:p.giannozzi@gmail.com" target="_blank">p.giannozzi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 2:00 AM, Dan Gil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.gil9973@gmail.com" target="_blank">dan.gil9973@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">[...] With the input format shown below, I get the following error from the HPC.<div><br></div><div>- - - - -</div><div>/tmp/slurm/job8327489/slurm_script: line 11: 111713 Killed pw.x < <a href="http://sapphire.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</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>let me understand: your HPC says "exceeded memory", and you try to run it on your PC?<br></div><div>In your output, there should be a line saying something like<br><br> Estimated total dynamical RAM > 67.08 GB<br><br></div><div>By setting<br></div><div> K_POINTS gamma<br></div><div>instead of <br></div><div> K_POINTS automatic<br> 1 1 1 1 1 1<br></div><div>you can cut the RAM into half (results are the same), by the way. You should also consider reducing the cell length along c (95 A!) and starting with smaller cutoffs.<br><br></div><div>Paolo<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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> 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0.159438914<br>O -0.001340437 0.828050302 0.023055667<br>O 0.170609242 0.498659531 0.249901352<br>O 0.181666250 0.666682692 0.300333049<br>O 0.333317280 0.514983569 0.300333049<br>O 0.485016464 0.818333724 0.300333049<br>O 0.014983590 0.681666382 -0.027376009<br>O 0.318333743 0.833317293 -0.027376009<br>O 0.166682713 0.985016416 -0.027376009<br>H 0.000000000 0.000000000 0.301962321<br>H 0.333333311 0.166666621 0.311183904<br>H 0.166666682 0.333333364 0.301819835<br>H 0.000000000 0.000000000 -0.029005281<br>H 0.333333311 0.166666621 -0.028862795<br>H 0.166666682 0.333333364 -0.038226863<br>H 0.500000000 0.000000000 0.301962321<br>H 0.833333311 0.166666621 0.311183904<br>H 0.666666682 0.333333364 0.301819835<br>H 0.500000000 0.000000000 -0.029005281<br>H 0.833333311 0.166666621 -0.028862795<br>H 0.666666682 0.333333364 -0.038226863<br>H 0.500000000 0.500000000 0.301962321<br>H 0.833333311 0.666666621 0.311183904<br>H 0.666666682 0.833333364 0.301819835<br>H 0.500000000 0.500000000 -0.029005281<br>H 0.833333311 0.666666621 -0.028862795<br>H 0.666666682 0.833333364 -0.038226863<br>H 0.000000000 0.500000000 0.301962321<br>H 0.333333311 0.666666621 0.311183904<br>H 0.166666682 0.833333364 0.301819835<br>H 0.000000000 0.500000000 -0.029005281<br>H 0.333333311 0.666666621 -0.028862795<br>H 0.166666682 0.833333364 -0.038226863<br>K_POINTS automatic<br>1 1 1 1 1 1<br>- - - - - <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Dan Gil</div><div>PhD Candidate</div><div>Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering</div><div>Case Western Reserve University<br></div></div>
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