[Pw_forum] Restart pw.x in a different machine

Joshua Davis davis101 at chemistry.msu.edu
Tue Mar 8 21:12:34 CET 2016


Dear Joaquim,

you may want to look up the "wfcollect" option under &CONTROL

http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/INPUT_PW.html#__top__

Joshua Davis
Michigan State University

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:11 PM Malicious Scientist <
scientist.malicious at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Nicola,
>
> Sorry, my mistake.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Name: Joaquim José Xavier
> Institution: Faculdade de Educação, Ciências, e Letras do Sertão Central -
> Quixadá - Ceará - Brasil
> http://www.uece.br/feclesc/
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Nicola Marzari <nicola.marzari at epfl.ch>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Malicious,
>>
>> PLEASE see the posting guidelines:
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>> nicola
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08/03/2016 19:37, Malicious Scientist wrote:
>> > Hello Community,
>> >
>> > I would like to know if it is possible top stop a pw.x run, copy to
>> > files to a different machine, and then restart the computation.
>> >
>> > For example, to stop the execution, I would create a $prefix.EXIT file
>> > on the working directory (just like described at
>> >
>> http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/pw_user_guide/node19.html
>> ).
>> >
>> > After that, I would copy the entire working directory, including the
>> > scratch dir, to a remote server with the same version of QE installed.
>> > Then I would restart the computation setting the 'restart_mode' flag to
>> > 'restart' at the CONTROL namelist.
>> >
>> > Is this supposed to work? If so, may I restart the computation with a
>> > different number of CPUs?
>> >
>> > Thank you for your attention.
>> >
>> >
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