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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello Pacome <br>
      <br>
      using qe-6.3  you can actually run the nscf  calculation without
      specifying occupation=tetrahedra leave smearing or  whatever else
      and  just take care to check that you are computing as many bands
      you need, which as I read you are already doing specifying nbnd. 
      <br>
      In the dos.x input  you have just to add the option bz_sum =
      'tetrahedra_opt'.  <br>
      <br>
      if you use qe-6.3 remember that the format of xml and charge
      density files are different from those of 6.2 and older versions,
      so you have to rerun the scf computation as well. <br>
      <br>
      One thing that I notice now is that you are using a 9X9X1 mesh, I
      am not sure whether 2D version of the method is actually
      implemented in Q.E. you could try using a 9X9X2 mesh and see if
      that works. <br>
      <br>
      greetings - Pietro   <br>
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      On 02/14/2019 01:03 AM, Pacome NGUIMEYA wrote:<br>
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                color="#000000">Hi all,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
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            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">I have been trying to run the
                calculation of the Density of State (DOS) for TaAs using
                <b>QE-6.1</b> but It always crashes and returns the
                following error message:</font></div>
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            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     task #         6</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     from tetra_init : error #        26</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     cannot remap grid on k-point list</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">There are several forums on this subject
                where many workaround have been proposed.</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
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            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">I went through all of them and I tried
                each of the proposed workaround that I found, but none
                of them could solve the problem. </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
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            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">Neither adding bands <b>(ndnd=144)</b>
                nor <b>the increase of the convergence threshold to
                  1.0e-11</b> worked (<a
                  href="http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5f15ead20100cw4d.html"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5f15ead20100cw4d.html</a>),
                not even the workaround propose by Prof Paolo Giannozzi
                here <a
href="https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.quantum-espresso.org/msg32997.html"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.quantum-espresso.org/msg32997.html</a></font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">I even <b>changed the version of
                  quantum espresso</b>; I used <b>QE 5.4</b>, <b>6.2</b>
                and <b>6.3</b> but I keep getting errors</font></div>
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                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">with <b>QE-5.4</b> and <b>QE-6.2</b> I
                am getting the following error</font></div>
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                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     task #        21</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     from tetrahedra : error #        26</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     cannot remap grid on k-point list</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"> and this one with <b>QE-6.3</b></font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     task #         0</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     from pw_readfile : error #       
                 1</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">     error opening xml data file</font></div>
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                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">In the <b>particular case</b> of <b>QE-6.3</b>
                the <b>problem seems to be solved</b> but it looks like
                the program <b>can not find the xml file</b>; <b>it
                  looks like it does not exist</b>.</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">I am using the CHPC(centre for high
                performance computing)'s cluster to run my calculations</font></div>
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                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">I need your help to sort this out</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">Is it possible to calculate the DOS with
                <b>occupations = 'smearing', smearing = 'M-P', degauss =
                  0.011</b> and with the <b>automatically chosen
                  k-points 9 9 1</b> 1 1 1 instead of <b>occupations =
                  'tetrahedra'</b> with <b>k-points 9 9 1</b> 1 1 1.</font></div>
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            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"> I look forward to hearing from you,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"> Below is my input file (also attached
                to this email)</font></div>
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                color="#000000"><br>
              </font></div>
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                color="#000000"><br>
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            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">&CONTROL</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                 calculation = 'nscf',</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">             </span> 
                    prefix = 'TaAs',</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                restart_mode =
                'from_scratch',</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                  pseudo_dir = '/...,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                      outdir = '/...,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">     </span> 
                     etot_conv_thr = 1.0e-5,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">  <span style="white-space:pre">          </span> 
                wf_collect = .true.,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"> /</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">&SYSTEM</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                       ibrav = 7,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                           A =
                3.4348002616,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">                     </span> 
                 B = 3.4348002616,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">                     </span> 
                 C = 11.641,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">             </span> 
                     cosAB = 0,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">             </span> 
                     cosAC = 0,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">             </span> 
                     cosBC = 0,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                         nat = 8,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                        ntyp = 2,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">                     </span>nbnd
                = 72,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                     ecutwfc = 70,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                     ecutrho = 400,</font></div>
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                color="#000000">         <span style="white-space:pre">       </span>
                occupations = 'tetrahedra',</font></div>
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                color="#000000"> /</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">&ELECTRONS</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">     </span> 
                          conv_thr = 1.0e-11,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre">     </span> 
                       mixing_mode = 'plain',</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">                 mixing_beta = 0.7,</font></div>
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                color="#000000">             diagonalization = 'cg',</font></div>
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                color="#000000"> /</font></div>
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                color="#000000"> ATOMIC_SPECIES</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">   Ta   180.94788 
                Ta.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.0.2.UPF</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">   As   74.9216   
                As.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.0.2.UPF</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"> ATOMIC_POSITIONS {crystal}</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">Ta       0.256888939  -0.145590417 
                -0.031926398</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">Ta       0.575434474   0.440904275 
                 0.567465416</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">Ta      -0.284237537   0.808259399 
                 0.316294705</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">Ta       0.027951774   0.396761377 
                 0.919029854</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">As       0.041545914  -0.136018486 
                 0.451188370</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">As       0.704536879   0.274274640 
                 0.880297072</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">As       0.172406031   0.385662500 
                 0.492672865</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">As       0.505473527  -0.024253289 
                 0.072978100</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"> K_POINTS {automatic}</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000">  9 9 1  1 1 1</font></div>
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            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"> Regards,</font></div>
            <div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"
                color="#000000"> Pacome</font></div>
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