[Pw_forum] network problem for parallel calculations

[Mithra Chan]

Dear Lorenzo,

It seems we can use 'disk_io' to do that. I am trying, we will see.

Regards,

Mithra Chan

2010/10/18 Mithra Chan <chan.mithra at gmail.com>

> Dear Lorenzo,
>
> Thanks for you suggestion. I think that would not work. Because the job is
> distributed randomly, I do not know which node it will lated at. I tried by
> setting outdir='./' and coy the INPUT file to $TMP then run it locally. In
> this case it write files locally, but I got an error which says "from davcio
> : error #        10  error while writing to file".
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mithra Chan
>
>
> 2010/10/18 Lorenzo Paulatto <Lorenzo.Paulatto at impmc.upmc.fr>
>
> Dear Mithra,
>> by default, QE should use the current directory as temporary space.
>> However, you can control this behavior busing the keyword
>> outdir="/whatever/directory" in the &control namelist (check the manual
>> Doc/INPUT_PW.txt !!!).
>>
>> > INDIR=`pwd`
>> > echo $TMP    > $INDIR/tmpdir
>> > cd $TMP
>>
>> This should work, but if $TMP is empty, than it will just use the home
>> directory!
>>
>> > cp $TMP/* .
>>
>> are you sure copying everything to the home directory is not stalling the
>> network?
>>
>> best regards
>>
>>
>>
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>
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> Dr. Mithra Chan,
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>


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Dr. Mithra Chan,
Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
chan.mithra at gmail.com
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