[Pw_forum] GIPAW problems

Zbigniew Lodziana Zbigniew.Lodziana at ifj.edu.pl
Mon Sep 3 16:26:16 CEST 2012


Dear Forum Users & Developers,

I am new in QE Forum - welcome to All & congratulations for excellent
information exchange here and software.

Being new in GIPAW calculations I might have missed the answer browsing the
Forum but did not found solution yet.

The problem is that I am somehow puzzled by GIPAW calculations:

- Using QE 5.0 I did compile it with Intel Fortran, MKL, openmp (more details
below). No tuning, no tricks etc. just followed installation guide
(./configure &  make all).

- While pw.x performs nicely, gipaw.x gives results that are difficult for
interpretation, and I cannot really locate where the problem is.

- Both pw.x and gipaw.x pass self-test; examples were no problem too.

However, trying to calculate NMR spectra for slightly complex system
calculations with GIPAW give results that seems to be machine dependent to the
large extend.

Input files and part of output are at the end; shortly "Total NMR chemical
shifts in ppm:" is either 16.58 or 134.05 for the same system/element (inputs
are simply copied) when calculated on two similar machines.

Both computers are Intel based, compiler and libraries differ however:
a) intel 11.1 (ifort); mkl 10.3
b) intel 11.1 (ifort); mkl 10.2.5.035

Playing with pseudopotentials, k-points make things even worse.., denser fft
grid, density cutoff does not seems to improve results either). I use several
other numerical codes on both machines - never had similar problems.

I would highly appreciate any suggestions/help toward resolving this problem.

best regards & thank you in advance,
Zibi

Zbigniew Lodziana
Polish Academy of Sciences,
ul.. Radzikowskiego 152,
PL-31-342 Krakow
====================================================================

More detailed output & input.

-------------------
Machine (a)

Program GIPAW v.5.0        starts on 29Aug2012
...
Parallel version (MPI), running on    36 processors   
 K-points division:     npool     =    6 
 R & G space division:  proc/pool =    6 
...
     Parallelization info   
          --------------------    
   sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:    dense   smooth      PW   
        Min         985     985    263                35145    35145    4831

       Max         986     986    264                35146    35146    4833

      Sum        5913    5913   1581               210873   210873   28991

...
     Total NMR chemical shifts in ppm: ---------------------------------------    
          (adopting the Simpson convention for anisotropy and
asymmetry)-----------    
Atom  1  Ca  pos: (  0.000000  6.787326  7.322301)  Total sigma:        1417.43
...
Atom  3  B   pos: (  2.443074  2.731768  3.272940)  Total sigma:         134.05
...
Atom 11  O   pos: (  4.532848  1.133423  1.942424)  Total sigma:         102.07
...
=================
pw.x

Program PWSCF v.5.0        starts on 29Aug2012
the Fermi energy is    10.5803 ev
!    total energy              =    -642.94342958 Ry                              
  Harris-Foulkes estimate   =    -642.94342958 Ry                              
  estimated scf accuracy    <          2.6E-11 Ry

========================
==========================================================
machine (b)

Program GIPAW v.5.0        starts on 30Aug2012

Parallel version (MPI), running on    36 processors
     K-points division:     npool     =    6
      R & G space division:  proc/pool =    6
...
Parallelization info
     --------------------
  sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:    dense   smooth      PW
 Min         985     985    263                35145    35145    4831
Max         986     986    264                35146    35146    4833
 Sum        5913    5913   1581               210873   210873   28991
...
Total NMR chemical shifts in ppm: ---------------------------------------
 (adopting the Simpson convention for anisotropy and asymmetry)-----------

  Atom  1  Ca  pos: (  0.000000  6.787326  7.322301)  Total sigma:        1001.13
...
Atom  3  B   pos: (  2.443074  2.731768  3.272940)  Total sigma:          16.58
...
Atom 11  O   pos: (  4.532848  1.133423  1.942424)  Total sigma:          68.51

pw.x
Program PWSCF v.5.0        starts on 30Aug2012

the Fermi energy is    10.5803 ev

!    total energy              =    -642.94342958 Ry
     Harris-Foulkes estimate   =    -642.94342958 Ry
      estimated scf accuracy    <          2.6E-11 Ry
=============================================================
INPUTS:
pw.x

&control
    calculation = 'scf'
    prefix = 'CaB4O7'
    restart_mode = 'from_scratch'
    tstress = .true.
    tprnfor = .true.
    pseudo_dir = './pseudo/'
    outdir = './tmp/'
/
&system
    ibrav = 0
    celldm(1) = 1.0
    nat = 24
    ntyp = 3
    ecutwfc = 110
    occupations  =  'smearing' 
    smearing  =  'mp' 
    degauss  =  0.005 
/
&electrons
    diagonalization = 'david'
    diago_thr_init = 1e-4
    mixing_mode = 'plain'
    mixing_beta = 0.1
    conv_thr =  1e-10
/

ATOMIC_SPECIES
Ca 40.078  Ca.pbe-tm-new-dc.UPF
B  10.811 B.pbe-tm-new-gipaw-dc.UPF
O  15.999 O.pbe-tm-new-gipaw-dc.UPF

CELL_PARAMETERS (alat=  1.00000000)
  20.248307850   0.000000000   0.000000000
   0.000000000   8.343848898   0.000000000
   0.000000000   0.000000000   8.006202063

ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)
Ca       0.000000000   0.813452700   0.914578653
Ca       0.500000000   0.186731631   0.414667081
B        0.120655733   0.327399041   0.408800535
B        0.379358780   0.672598815   0.908813803
B        0.620641220   0.672598815   0.908813803
B        0.879344267   0.327399041   0.408800535
B        0.250722266   0.822127339   0.383740663
B        0.249297780   0.177848977   0.883744720
B        0.750702220   0.177848977   0.883744720
B        0.749277734   0.822127339   0.383740663
O        0.223863043   0.135839302   0.242614879
O        0.276145474   0.864113231   0.742641343
O        0.723854526   0.864113231   0.742641343
O        0.776136957   0.135839302   0.242614879
O        0.138503036   0.647114168   0.331799880
O        0.361509595   0.352879214   0.831821610
O        0.638490405   0.352879214   0.831821610
O        0.861496964   0.647114168   0.331799880
O        0.133904753   0.274432983   0.747354309
O        0.366136763   0.725573696   0.247375604
O        0.633863237   0.725573696   0.247375604
O        0.866095247   0.274432983   0.747354309
O        0.000000000   0.220447425   0.298885908
O        0.500000000   0.779514715   0.798853668

K_POINTS automatic
2 6 6   1 1 1

=======================================
gipaw.x

&inputgipaw
    job = 'nmr'
    prefix = 'CaB4O7'
    tmp_dir = './tmp/'
    isolve = 0
    iverbosity = 1
    q_gipaw = 0.01
    spline_ps = .true.
    use_nmr_macroscopic_shape = .true.
/



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