<div dir="ltr"><div>It seems to me that your hack should work. Unfortunately the I/O of the phonon code is quite confusing and it is hard to figure out what is not working where and why. Apparently the code tries to read the charge density of the unperturbed system, once again (it is read and stored in memory at the very beginning) and from a different place from the standard one.</div><div><br></div><div>Paolo<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 7:47 PM Baer, Bradly <<a href="mailto:bradly.b.baer@vanderbilt.edu">bradly.b.baer@vanderbilt.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I am experiencing a crash when working with ph.x across multiple nodes. Input and output files are attached. The first q-point appears to be calculated correctly, but the code crashes when attempting to start calculating the second q-point. A file "charge-density"
is said to be missing but "charge-density.dat" exists when I manually inspect the files. As there are 16 reports that the file cannot be found, I am assuming that this is an issue with me using multiple nodes (each node has 16 cores). A general description
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I am using SLURM on a cluster. I have two nodes assigned to my job, each with a local scratch drive that is not visible to the other node. I also have access to a gpfs networked drive that both nodes can access. To improve performance, I am attempting to
perform all calculations using the local scratch drives. All input files are copied from the gpfs networked drive to the local drive on each node before the initial pw.x calculation. After the pw.x calculation, a small script copies the output files (pwscf.save
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I am open to any suggestions as this solution has been somewhat hacked together after performance using the gpfs networked drives proved incredibly poor.</div>
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