<div dir="auto">Hello Lorenzo, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's really nice to hear from you. I hope you're doing well. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I am using QE 6.4 and unfortunately I can see that the scf calculation takes same amount of time as the band calculation. So I doubt that the problem might be the inconsistency between these two calculations. But sure, I'll increase the ecutwfc. Thank you for the tip. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Aslo I have tried running the band calculation on different systems (local pc with 12 nodes) and HPC (with 36 and 72 nodes). Every time I have the same problem. I have tried QE 6.5 and 6.4 for this calculation all with same issue.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All the best,</div><div dir="auto">Zahra</div><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 22:22 Lorenzo Paulatto <<a href="mailto:paulatz@gmail.com">paulatz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hello Zahra,</p>
<p>if I understand correctly, you manage to do the scf calculation,
but then the band calculation is very slow. The cost per k-point
of nscf should be more or less the same as the cost per k-point of
one scf iteration. If it is not, there is something wrong. One
possible problem, is that ecutwfc is interpreted differently
during nscf. A tight value (1.d-12 or less) may cause the
threshold of diagonalization in nscf to become too small and very
slow to converge. This should be fixed in v 6.7, but you can just
increase ecutwfc in nscf if you're using a previous version.</p>
<p>If not, it may be a problem with parallelism, i.e. running on too
many CPUs or some proper human error like running with all the
processes on the same computing node. <br>
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<p>cheers<br>
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<div>First of all, I hope everyone is safe and well in these
crazy times. </div>
<div>I'm calculating the electronic band dispersion of a 2D
heterostructure with a 59 atom unit cell. This system is a
small bandgap (10-20 meV) semiconductor. The number of valence
bands is (valence electrons/2) 181. When I set 'nbnd' to 190,
the band structure calculation costs me 30 minutes for each k
point on HPC with 72 processors. This means that if I do a
simple band calculation for a high symmetry path with 100
points within, I have to wait almost 50 hours! This even
becomes worst when I try to evaluate the band dispersion with
SOC switched on (twice the spin degenerate band calculation). </div>
<div>Since the band dispersion evaluation is the major part of
our study, I was wondering if there is a way around this
problem, like reducing the number of bands by only looking at
energy interval close to Fermi energy? </div>
<div>I could see that there are lots of papers and studies in
the literature with huge unit cells and heavy atoms that have
presented numerous band structures (using QE). So I really
appreciate it if you could help me here. </div>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
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