[Pw_forum] Problem in running nscf calculation at higher number of k points

[Eyvaz Isaev]

Dear Dimpy,

--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Dimpy Sharma <dimpy.sharma at tyndall.ie> wrote: 
 
 > I need to calculate projected density of states and band
> structure for my system and thats why I have been running a
> nsf calculation with higher number of k points, but the
> problem is that my calculation crashes without giving me any
> error message. The nscf calculation runs successfully upto
> for  4 k points but if I increase it to 5 or higher
> number it crashes. I run my calculation in a very high
> memory of 80 nodes. Can anybody please give me any
> suggestion?
 
The info provided is quite scarce to tell more exactly why this happens.
Have you checked disk space? May be you have no free disk space.

Bests,
Eyvaz.


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Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (IFM), Linkoping University, Sweden 
Condensed Matter Theory Group, Uppsala University, Sweden 
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