[Pw_forum] xml_recover problem with phonon (ph.x) restart job

[Ary Junior]

Dear Fabio,

I'm facing some issues in recovering phonons calculations and I have just
found your message here in the forum. Please, could you clarify me what did
you mean with "split my phonon calculations into several smaller parts"?

Thank you very much!

Ary Rodrigues Ferreira Junior
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - MG - Brasil

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM, <elbuesta at icqmail.com> wrote:

>  When that happens to me on cineca, removing all the temporary files on
> scratch except the "_phprefix.phsave" directory usually works for me, as
> suggested on the manual for phonon calculations.
>
> "This mechanism allows:
>
>      1) To recover part of the ph.x calculation even if the recover file
>         or files are corrupted. You just remove the _phprefix.recover
>         files from the tmp_dir directory. You can also remove all the _ph
>         files and keep only the _phprefix.phsave directory.
> "
>  But I have to admit that, nowadys, in order to avoid this error, I
> always split my phonon calculations into several smaller parts that can run
> in the time limit allowed by cineca.
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Fabio Negreiros Ribeiro
> IPCF - CNR, Pisa - Italy
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Omololu Akin-Ojo <prayerz.omo at gmail.com>
> To: pw_forum at pwscf.org
> Sent: Mon, Nov 8, 2010 8:53 am
> Subject: [Pw_forum] xml_recover problem with phonon (ph.x) restart job
>
>  Ciao tutti,
>
>
>
>
> I am trying to re-start a phonon calculation job on an sp6 machine (CINECA) but I got the following error:
>
>
>
>
> cannot open xml_recover file for writing
>
>
>
> This error was reported in the past (see following link). Does anyone know
> how to quickly fix this problem?
> Alternatively, does anyone know where I can get version 4.05 of
> Quantum-Espresso? The poster of the message below said the restart works
> for version 4.05.
> http://qe-forge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=133&aid=27&group_id=10
>
> Vi ringrazio.
>
> Omololu
> ICTP, Italy.
>
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