[Pw_forum] Berry phase routine status?

[Paolo Giannozzi]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 15:41, Serge Nakhmanson wrote:

> Does Berry phase calculation routine in espresso 2.1 work in parallel mode?

not with k-point parallelization and only for "gdir" along axis 3
(typically z)

> When I do an MPI run with a scf + ( nscf + BP ) calculations I get the scf
> and nscf parts only, after which the code just stops with no obvious error
> messages.

that's strange: it should stop with an obvious error message

> Is it possible to do the scf run in parallel and then nscf + BP in serial

yes it is

Paolo

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