[Pw_forum] control of relaxation procedure

Payam Norouzzadeh payam.norouzzadeh at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 17:22:37 CEST 2012


Thank you very much Prof.Giannozi for your comment.
Best regards,Payam Norouzzadeh

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Paolo Giannozzi <giannozz at democritos.it>wrote:

>
> On Mar 28, 2012, at 21:05 , Payam Norouzzadeh wrote:
>
>   etot_conv_thr = 1.0E-9  ,
>>  forc_conv_thr = 1.0D-4
>>
>
> these are very strict thresholds, especially the first one. I do not think
> you will ever need such a level of convergence
>
> Also note that some optimization algorithms do not honor some
> convergence criteria, if I remember correclty
>
> P.
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