[Pw_forum] Help with running QE on supercomputer

Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 22:26:03 CEST 2014


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Cameron Foss <cjfoss at umass.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am using TACC's supercomputer GORDON to do some phonon dispersion
> calculations for silicon. However,  i am having trouble getting my batch
> scripts working, I keep getting this error:
>
> [gcn-7-16.sdsc.edu:mpirun_rsh][child_handler] Error in init phase, aborting!
> (0/1 mpispawn connections)

gordon is not hosted by TACC, but by SDSC.

>
> GORDON system details:
>
> Does anyone know what may be the issue here?

you should contact the local user support of that machine. they should
know best.

axel.

>
> here is the script file:
> #!/bin/sh
> #PBS -N silconPH
> #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=16:native
> #PBS -l walltime=00:15:00
> #PBS -q normal
> #PBS -o si.scf.out
> #PBS -A sef101
> #PBS -m bea
> #PBS -M cjfoss at umass.edu
> #######################################################
>
> cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
>
> #module swap mvapich2_ib openmpi_ib
> export ESPRESSO_HOME=$HOME/espresso-5.1
> export ESPRESSO_TMPDIR=$PBS_O_WORKDIR
> export ESPRESSO_PSEUDO=$ESPRESSO_HOME/pseudo
>
> #export OMP_NUM_THREAD = 32
>
> mpirun_rsh -np $PBS_NP -hostfile $PBS_NODEFILE $ESPRESSO_HOME/bin/pw.x <
> si.scf.in
>
> Best,
> Cameron
>
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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey at gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.



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