[Pw_forum] restart from an interrupted phonon run

[Stefano Baroni]

On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:40, Yong Jiang wrote:
>
>
>> I notice that pw.x has a input tag of "restart_mode='restart'"
>> which allows users to continue previous interrupted run. Is there
>> a similar tag for ph.x, to restart an interrupted ph.x run?
>>
>
> ph.x should automatically restart from an interrupted run, if it
> detects the presence of scratch files written by a previous run.
> This is by the way a source of trouble more often than not, so
> in the newer version you will have to explicitly specify that you
> want to restart from a previous run.
>
> Note however that
> 1) restarting is a mess, because files are often corrupted
> 2) in parallel execution, restarting is a mess multiplied by 1024:
>   you need to run on the same number of processors, with the same
>   number of 'pools', and each processor must see all files produced
>   by all other processors


ma questo problema non era stato rimosso dal restart centralizzato ???

S.

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> Paolo
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