[QE-users] scf calculation 'killed' in the terminal with no error message in the output file.

Dr. Pabitra Mandal pabitram.sosci at wbnsou.ac.in
Fri May 31 11:56:48 CEST 2024


I was running scf calculation and the calculation was stopped without any
error message in the output file. The calculation stopped with a message,
"killed" in the terminal. My aim is to perform an 'epsilon' calculation. I
am doing it on my laptop with RAM = 6 GB. Please see the
input file:
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&CONTROL
    calculation   = "scf"
    title='SiCGeC'
    prefix='SiCGeC'
    outdir        = './tmp'
    pseudo_dir    = './pseudo'
    restart_mode  = "from_scratch"
/

&SYSTEM
    ibrav = 0
    ecutrho     = 260.0
    ecutwfc     = 65.0
    nat         = 16
    ntyp        = 3
    nosym=.true.
    nbnd= 100
/

&ELECTRONS
    conv_thr         = 1e-06
    electron_maxstep = 750
    mixing_beta      = 4.00000e-01
    startingpot      = "atomic"
    startingwfc      = "atomic+random"
/

CELL_PARAMETERS (angstrom)
  21.828198595   0.000000000   0.000000000
   0.000000000   3.148371554   0.000000000
   0.000000000   0.000000000  20.000000000

ATOMIC_SPECIES
C     12.0110    C.UPF
Si    28.0855    Si.UPF
Ge    72.6400    Ge.UPF

ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom)
C             0.9455486984        1.5741857773       10.0000000000
Si            1.8049499371        0.0000000000       10.0000000000
C             3.5870032088        0.0000000000       10.0000000000
Si            4.4525208612        1.5741857773       10.0000000000
C             6.2344154894        1.5741857773       10.0000000000
Si            7.0998915909        0.0000000000       10.0000000000
C             8.8815549745        0.0000000000       10.0000000000
Si            9.7432695963        1.5741857773       10.0000000000
C            11.5165955854        1.5741857773       10.0000000000
Ge           12.4768938430        0.0000000000       10.0000000000
C            14.3311885416        0.0000000000       10.0000000000
Ge           15.2863411399        1.5741857773       10.0000000000
C            17.1409443637        1.5741857773       10.0000000000
Ge           18.0960379384        0.0000000000       10.0000000000
C            19.9507361509        0.0000000000       10.0000000000
Ge           20.9084348732        1.5741857773       10.0000000000

K_POINTS tpiba
112
0.1250000 0.1238066 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 0.1238066 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 0.1238066 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 0.1238066 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 0.3714199 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 0.3714199 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 0.3714199 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 0.3714199 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 0.6190332 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 0.6190332 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 0.6190332 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 0.6190332 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 0.8666465 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 0.8666465 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 0.8666465 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 0.8666465 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 1.1142598 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 1.1142598 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 1.1142598 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 1.1142598 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 1.3618730 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 1.3618730 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 1.3618730 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 1.3618730 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 1.6094863 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 1.6094863 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 1.6094863 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 1.6094863 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 1.8570996 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 1.8570996 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 1.8570996 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 1.8570996 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 2.1047129 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 2.1047129 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 2.1047129 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 2.1047129 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 2.3523261 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 2.3523261 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 2.3523261 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 2.3523261 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 2.5999394 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 2.5999394 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 2.5999394 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 2.5999394 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 2.8475527 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 2.8475527 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 2.8475527 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 2.8475527 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 3.0951660 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 3.0951660 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 3.0951660 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 3.0951660 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 3.3427793 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 3.3427793 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 3.3427793 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 3.3427793 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 3.5903925 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 3.5903925 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 3.5903925 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 3.5903925 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 3.8380058 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 3.8380058 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 3.8380058 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 3.8380058 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 4.0856191 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 4.0856191 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 4.0856191 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 4.0856191 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 4.3332324 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 4.3332324 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 4.3332324 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 4.3332324 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 4.5808456 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 4.5808456 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 4.5808456 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 4.5808456 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 4.8284589 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 4.8284589 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 4.8284589 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 4.8284589 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 5.0760722 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 5.0760722 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 5.0760722 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 5.0760722 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 5.3236855 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 5.3236855 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 5.3236855 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 5.3236855 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 5.5712988 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 5.5712988 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 5.5712988 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 5.5712988 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 5.8189120 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 5.8189120 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 5.8189120 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 5.8189120 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 6.0665253 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 6.0665253 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 6.0665253 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 6.0665253 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 6.3141386 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 6.3141386 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 6.3141386 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 6.3141386 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 6.5617519 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 6.5617519 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 6.5617519 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 6.5617519 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.1250000 6.8093651 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.3750000 6.8093651 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.6250000 6.8093651 0.5457047 0.008928571
0.8750000 6.8093651 0.5457047 0.008928571
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output file:
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     Program PWSCF v.6.8 starts on 30May2024 at 19:40:44

     This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO suite
     for quantum simulation of materials; please cite
         "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21 395502 (2009);
         "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 29 465901 (2017);
         "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Chem. Phys. 152 154105 (2020);
          URL http://www.quantum-espresso.org",
     in publications or presentations arising from this work. More details
at
     http://www.quantum-espresso.org/quote

     Parallel version (MPI), running on     1 processors

     MPI processes distributed on     1 nodes
     4798 MiB available memory on the printing compute node when the
environment starts

     Reading input from SiCGeC.scf.in

     Current dimensions of program PWSCF are:
     Max number of different atomic species (ntypx) = 10
     Max number of k-points (npk) =  40000
     Max angular momentum in pseudopotentials (lmaxx) =  4

     Subspace diagonalization in iterative solution of the eigenvalue
problem:
     a serial algorithm will be used


     G-vector sticks info
     --------------------
     sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:    dense   smooth      PW
     Sum        5093    5093   1619               656793   656793  118603

     Using Slab Decomposition


     Title:
     SiCGeC



     bravais-lattice index     =            0
     lattice parameter (alat)  =      41.2493  a.u.
     unit-cell volume          =    9275.3536 (a.u.)^3
     number of atoms/cell      =           16
     number of atomic types    =            3
     number of electrons       =       104.00
     number of Kohn-Sham states=          100
     kinetic-energy cutoff     =      65.0000  Ry
     charge density cutoff     =     260.0000  Ry
     scf convergence threshold =      1.0E-06
     mixing beta               =       0.4000
     number of iterations used =            8  plain     mixing
     Exchange-correlation= PBE
                           (   1   4   3   4   0   0   0)

     celldm(1)=  41.249317  celldm(2)=   0.000000  celldm(3)=   0.000000
     celldm(4)=   0.000000  celldm(5)=   0.000000  celldm(6)=   0.000000

     crystal axes: (cart. coord. in units of alat)
               a(1) = (   1.000000   0.000000   0.000000 )
               a(2) = (   0.000000   0.144234   0.000000 )
               a(3) = (   0.000000   0.000000   0.916246 )

     reciprocal axes: (cart. coord. in units 2 pi/alat)
               b(1) = (  1.000000  0.000000  0.000000 )
               b(2) = (  0.000000  6.933171  0.000000 )
               b(3) = (  0.000000  0.000000  1.091410 )


     PseudoPot. # 1 for C  read from file:
     ./pseudo/C.UPF
     MD5 check sum: 34a24e64c0a39f27c6c36b90a16ac686
     Pseudo is Norm-conserving + core correction, Zval =  4.0
     Generated using ONCVPSP code by D. R. Hamann
     Using radial grid of 1248 points,  4 beta functions with:
                l(1) =   0
                l(2) =   0
                l(3) =   1
                l(4) =   1

     PseudoPot. # 2 for Si read from file:
     ./pseudo/Si.UPF
     MD5 check sum: 02fab3f35e82123ef5bf1cb05d5b1a5e
     Pseudo is Norm-conserving + core correction, Zval =  4.0
     Generated using ONCVPSP code by D. R. Hamann
     Using radial grid of 1510 points,  6 beta functions with:
                l(1) =   0
                l(2) =   0
                l(3) =   1
                l(4) =   1
                l(5) =   2
                l(6) =   2

     PseudoPot. # 3 for Ge read from file:
     ./pseudo/Ge.UPF
     MD5 check sum: 087fa14d6c89b52166990835c3b338da
     Pseudo is Norm-conserving + core correction, Zval = 14.0
     Generated using ONCVPSP code by D. R. Hamann
     Using radial grid of 1560 points,  6 beta functions with:
                l(1) =   0
                l(2) =   0
                l(3) =   1
                l(4) =   1
                l(5) =   2
                l(6) =   2

     atomic species   valence    mass     pseudopotential
        C              4.00    12.01100     C ( 1.00)
        Si             4.00    28.08550     Si( 1.00)
        Ge            14.00    72.64000     Ge( 1.00)

     No symmetry found



   Cartesian axes

     site n.     atom                  positions (alat units)
         1           C   tau(   1) = (   0.0433178   0.0721171   0.4581230
 )
         2           Si  tau(   2) = (   0.0826889   0.0000000   0.4581230
 )
         3           C   tau(   3) = (   0.1643289   0.0000000   0.4581230
 )
         4           Si  tau(   4) = (   0.2039802   0.0721171   0.4581230
 )
         5           C   tau(   5) = (   0.2856129   0.0721171   0.4581230
 )
         6           Si  tau(   6) = (   0.3252624   0.0000000   0.4581230
 )
         7           C   tau(   7) = (   0.4068845   0.0000000   0.4581230
 )
         8           Si  tau(   8) = (   0.4463616   0.0721171   0.4581230
 )
         9           C   tau(   9) = (   0.5276017   0.0721171   0.4581230
 )
        10           Ge  tau(  10) = (   0.5715952   0.0000000   0.4581230
 )
        11           C   tau(  11) = (   0.6565447   0.0000000   0.4581230
 )
        12           Ge  tau(  12) = (   0.7003025   0.0721171   0.4581230
 )
        13           C   tau(  13) = (   0.7852661   0.0721171   0.4581230
 )
        14           Ge  tau(  14) = (   0.8290211   0.0000000   0.4581230
 )
        15           C   tau(  15) = (   0.9139891   0.0000000   0.4581230
 )
        16           Ge  tau(  16) = (   0.9578635   0.0721171   0.4581230
 )

     number of k points=   112

     Number of k-points >= 100: set verbosity='high' to print them.

     Dense  grid:   656793 G-vectors     FFT dimensions: ( 216,  32, 200)
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