[Pw_forum] Silent Calculations

[Miguel Martínez]

Thank you everybody for all your answers. I never thought using a
shifted grid would have an effect in the time needed for computing
phonons! I'll try and see whether this effects my calculations or not.

You'll be glad to hear that after decreasing the K_POINT mesh to 10 10
10 and tr2_ph to 1.0d-14 the code seems to be working as well as ever,
although it's taking longer than expected.

Regards,

Miguel

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 22:20:29 +0200 Paolo Giannozzi
<giannozz at democritos.it> wrote:
> 
> it depends. It seems to me unlikely that the code will spend so much
> time without doing nothing, but it is not impossible. You need an idea
> of how much time a calculation requires. Typically you should start
> with a smaller system, or with a minimal k-point grid, to get such an
> idea. Note that the phonon code is not yet well optimized in some
> cases and for large cells, so it may require some tuning work.
> 
> If you are running in parallel, consider that the code can "hang" if
> something goes wrong on any process, sometimes in very subtle ways
> 
> > Or are my compiled binaries just telling me I
> > should stop bothering them in August?
> 
> this is also very likely
> 
> > Finally, I just wanted to note that the amasses in example 15 are
> 
> were (fixed in the cvs version)
> 
> > seemingly wrong.
> 
> 
> Paolo
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