[Pw_forum] Job Termination and convergence

Victor Meng'wa victormengwa at gmail.com
Wed May 2 16:43:15 CEST 2012


Dear QE users,
i've a relax calculation job that has run for two weeks ,it has done 21
iterations but has not given me the final coordinates despite convergence
threshold having been achieved. it  has 86 atoms.The input file looks like
this. it's organic polymer attached on SnO2.
  &CONTROL
 restart_mode='restart',
 calculation='relax',
 outdir='./',
 pseudo_dir='/mnt/m09nfshdd03/applications/espresso-PP/',
   prefix = 'SnOru_exc1',
   tstress = .t.,
    tprnfor = .t.,
   etot_conv_thr = 1.d-5,
   forc_conv_thr = 1.d-4,
   verbosity = 'high'

  /
 &SYSTEM
 ibrav=6,
 celldm(1)= 53.7129,
 celldm(3)=0.2242,

  nat=  86, ntyp= 5,
 ecutwfc =30,ecutrho = 280,
 occupations='smearing', smearing='marzari-vanderbilt', degauss=0.005

 /
 &ELECTRONS
 diagonalization = 'david'
 mixing_mode = 'local-TF',
  mixing_beta = 0.3,
 conv_thr = 1.0e-8,

 /
 &IONS
 ion_dynamics= 'damp',

 /
 ATOMIC_SPECIES
  Sn 50.011 Sn.pw91-n-van.UPF
  O 15.9994 O.pw91-van_ak.UPF
  C 12.0107  C.pw91-van_ak.UPF
  S 32.0650  S.pw91-van_ak.UPF
  H  1.0008  H.pw91-van_ak.UPF




  ATOMIC_POSITIONS {bohr}


Sn      8.952203138  8.952203138   0.000000000
Sn      8.952203138  8.952203138   6.021425723
 Sn      17.90421730  8.952203138   0.000000000
Sn      17.90421730  8.952203138   6.021425723
Sn      13.42821022  4.476007083   3.010712862
Sn      13.42821022  4.476007083   9.032138585
Sn      8.952203138  17.90421730   0.000000000
Sn      8.952203138  17.90421730   6.021425723
Sn      17.90421730  17.90421730   0.000000000
Sn      17.90421730  17.90421730   6.021425723
Sn      4.476007083  13.42821022   3.010712862
Sn      13.42821022  13.42821022   3.010712862
Sn      22.38041336  13.42821022   3.010712862
Sn      4.47007083   13.42821022   9.032138585
Sn      13.42821022  13.42821022   9.032138585
Sn      22.38041336  13.42821022   9.032138585
Sn      13.42821022  22.38041336   3.010712862
Sn      13.42821022  22.38041336   9.032138585
O       11.70043294  11.70043294   0.000000000
O       11.70043294  11.70043294   6.021425723
O       10.67998042  7.224425854   3.010712862
O       7.224425854  10.67998042   3.010712862
O       7.224425854  10.67998042   9.032138585
O       10.67998042  7.224425854   9.032138585
O       20.65263607  11.70043294   0.000000000
O       15.15598751   6.203784367  0.000000000
O       20.65263607   11.70043294   6.021425723
O       15.15598751   6.203784367   6.021425723
O       16.17644002   10.67998042   3.010712862
O       16.17644002   10.67998042   9.032138585
O       11.70043294   20.65263607   0.000000000
O       6.203784367   15.15598751   0.000000000
O       11.70043294   20.65263607   6.021425723
O       6.203784367   15.15598751    6.021425723
O       15.15598751   15.15598751   0.000000000
O       15.15598751   15.15598751    6.021425723
O       10.67998042   16.17644002    3.010712862
O       19.63199459   16.17644002    3.010712862
O       10.67998042   16.17644002    9.032138585
O       16.17644002   19.63199459    3.010712862
O       16.17644002   19.63199459    9.032138585
O       19.63199459   16.17644002    9.032138585
Sn      8.952203138   8.952203138    12.04285145
Sn      17.90421730   8.952203138    12.04285145
Sn       8.952203138  17.90421730    12.04285145
Sn      17.90421730   17.90421730    12.04285145
O       11.70043294   11.70043294    12.04285145
O       20.65263607   11.70043294    12.04285145
O       15.15598751   6.203784367    12.04285145
O       11.70043294   20.65263607    12.04285145
O       6.203784367   15.15598751    12.04285145
O       15.15598751   15.15598751    12.04285145
C       26.78442185   30.42290198    7.97086797
C       26.14985156   27.6053192     8.328404296
C       23.32357604   27.45565283    7.651126183
C       22.86059296   24.61142491    8.056472598
C       20.04074251   24.2931949     7.411697787
C       20.26902152   21.70615881    8.021701623
C       17.46069841   21.25886046    7.403382989
C       29.17076895   31.77556848    8.942754504
C       28.9379546    34.83106787    8.105227551
C       25.14394994   32.38235978    6.578517207
C       30.71259711   36.81206855    8.880771462
C       22.56863016   32.81000497    5.292558067
S       25.97032751   35.63741432    6.607996946
H       27.79750443   29.96067478    6.12668351
H       26.46468006   27.01742517    10.37686823
H       27.37344972   26.42064942    7.009185962
H       22.99306281   28.00575233    5.594725394
H       22.19862163   28.72498238    8.979604178
H       23.2290897    24.07341967    10.10984982
H       24.13842627   23.48117927    6.740844746
H       19.62670335   24.6184169     5.322793697
H       18.86287575   25.55931191    8.696523092
H       20.70498151   21.39492079    10.10833804
H       21.73658341   20.79209792    6.736309401
H       29.27999516   31.61267402    11.08797246
H       30.93747461   30.92027809    8.054582871
H       29.93516347   34.51208197    6.222492663
H       26.14229265   32.03861846    4.700695608
H       31.57865894   37.72480666    7.132207182
H       32.27370048   35.94581775    10.08660618
H       29.66549945   38.30589765    10.02670184
H       21.32840241   31.07126727    5.573182508
H       22.86550625   33.14788814    3.185701571
H       21.60600328   34.52757773    6.16674572




  K_POINTS {automatic}
 2 2 3  0 0 0

plz  try to examine this input file and single out some parameters that are
making this calcuation not to converge ,so that i can make corrections?
is there a particular way in QE that you can terminate a job without
necessarily killing it and provide  the required output,in this case final
coordinates since i feel convergence  threshold has been achieved but it
continues to run and whatever coordinates i get may be relaxed?

cheers



-- 
VICTOR KIRUI MENG'WA,
POST GRADUATE STUDENT,
CHEPKOILEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS,
COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS GROUP,
P.O BOX 1125,
ELDORET, KENYA
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