[QE-users] Some inconsistency between QE-6.7MaX and current QE-7.1

Mahmoud Payami Shabestari mpayami at aeoi.org.ir
Fri Sep 23 11:44:07 CEST 2022


Dear Iurii,



Many thanks for your detailed explanation. I am convinced.



Best regards,

Mahmoud



From: Iurii TIMROV <iurii.timrov at epfl.ch>

To: Mahmoud Payami Shabestari <mpayami at aeoi.org.ir>, "Quantum ESPRESSO users 
Forum" <users at lists.quantum-espresso.org>, Paolo Giannozzi 
<paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:35:42 +0000
Subject: Re: [QE-users] Some inconsistency between QE-6.7MaX and current 
QE-7.1



> If one would compare "DFT+U+ortho-atomic" with the "orbital-dependent HSE" 
method, can one be certain that the latter is still much more 
computationally expensive than the former?




It depends on the system size. Some comparison between DFT+U (with 
first-principles and self-consistent U using ortho-atomic orbitals) and 
HSE06 is made in the Appendix B of this paper: 
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/5/2395
Accuracy of DFT+U vs HSE06: in DFT+U, the U parameter can be computed for 
each system at hand while in HSE06 the fraction of exact exchange is 0.25 
for all systems. When people tune the fraction of exact exchange in HSE it 
is no longer first principles (though there are various methods how to 
compute it - some references are mentioned in the intro of the paper above). 
Therefore, it is not only about the speed/scaling but also about the 
accuracy.


Iurii




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From: Mahmoud Payami Shabestari <mpayami at aeoi.org.ir>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 11:26:33 AM
To: Iurii TIMROV; Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum; Paolo Giannozzi
Subject: Re: [QE-users] Some inconsistency between QE-6.7MaX and current 
QE-7.1


Dear Iurii,


Thank you for yor reply and referencing the relevant paper.
Now the important question:
people prefer DFT+U, because in principle the computational cost is of order 
(not so larger) than that of DFT, because one just introduces a correction 
from "APPROXIMATE" Hubbard Model on DFT.
If one would compare "DFT+U+ortho-atomic" with the "orbital-dependent HSE" 
method, can one be certain that the latter is still much more 
computationally expensive than the former?
Thank you in advance.


Bests,
Mahmoud






From: Iurii TIMROV via users <users at lists.quantum-espresso.org>
To: Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it>, Mahmoud Payami Shabestari 
<mpayami at aeoi.org.ir>, Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum 
<users at lists.quantum-espresso.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:37:57 +0000
Subject: Re: [QE-users] Some inconsistency between QE-6.7MaX and current 
QE-7.1


Hubbard forces and stresses using "ortho-atomic" Hubbard projectors are much 
more expensive than with "atomic". It is explained in PRB 102, 235159 
(2020). Computational scaling is discussed in the appendix C.


Iurii


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From: users <users-bounces at lists.quantum-espresso.org> on behalf of Mahmoud 
Payami Shabestari via users <users at lists.quantum-espresso.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 9:03:17 PM
To: Paolo Giannozzi; Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum
Subject: Re: [QE-users] Some inconsistency between QE-6.7MaX and current 
QE-7.1


Dear Paolo,


Thank you so much for your comments.
Actually, to find some sense about the time needed to calculate force, I 
have performed scf calculations for just one iteration, but different 
numbers of atoms (4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96, 108) with more or less 
the sama number of k points in BZ. The supercells were generated from the 
QE-7.1/PW/example08 unitcell. The inputs and outputs are uploaded in:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12cWLR7PkMI1wolxgRLnOSCi4IhtnLmEO?usp=sharing


The results for low number of atoms seems to take reasonable times, but for 
larger ones the time to calculate force becomes larger than the time for 
just one iteration.
Do you see any un-normal behavior in force calculation routine?
Thank you very much for your comments.


Bests, Mahmoud


From: Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it>
To: Mahmoud Payami Shabestari <mpayami at aeoi.org.ir>, Quantum ESPRESSO users 
Forum <users at lists.quantum-espresso.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 18:18:51 +0200
Subject: Re: [QE-users] Some inconsistency between QE-6.7MaX and current 
QE-7.1


Not sure what you mean exactly. As a rule of thumb, the calculation of
the Hubbard contribution to forces should take no more than 1/3 or 1/4,
likely much less than that, of the time needed for a scf calculation, at
least for the simple ("atomic") U projection.

Paolo

On 21/09/2022 19:31, Mahmoud Payami Shabestari via users wrote:
> Dear Paolo,
> Thank you so much for the comment on automatic parallelization.
> On the second issue, how can one estimate the execution time for force
> calculation as a function of number of Hubbard levels in a DFT+U
> calculation with ortho-atomic U_projection?
> Thank you in advance.
> Bests,
> Mahmoud
>
>     From: Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it>
>     To: users at lists.quantum-espresso.org
>     Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:58:42 +0200
>     Subject: Re: [QE-users] Some inconsistency between QE-6.7MaX and
>     current QE-7.1
>     The optimization you are referring to is actually an automatic choice 
of
>     parallelization option, but it is not used if you explicitly specify 
the
>     parallelization options (e.g. with -nk N -nd M). For the original
>     problem: one has to see under which exact coonditions it happens
>
>     Paolo
>
>     On 20/09/2022 05:01, Mahmoud Payami Shabestari via users wrote:
>      > Dear QE Developers,
>      > Hi.
>      > Kindly, when I use the same scf input for QE-6.7MaX and QE-7.1, the
>      > results of forces on atoms are more or less similar but with a 
small
>      > difference. However, the calculated pressures are
>     SIGNIFICANTLY_DIFFERENT.
>      > Secondly, when the number of atoms is of order say 50, the
>     calculation
>      > of forces on atoms using QE-7.1 is VERY VERY time consuming.
>      > In the release note of QE7.1 one feature mentioned is an 
"automatic"
>      > optimizations for accelerating the calculations.
>      > Could it happen that in some cases instead of optimizations one
>      > encounters with deceleration?
>      > How can one disable this automatic optimization?
>      > Thank you in advance.
>      > With Best Regards,
>      > Mahmoud Payami
>      > NSTRI, AEOI, Tehran, Iran
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