note on scratch (Re: [Wien] troubles in LAPW1)

Steven Homolya Steven.Homolya at spme.monash.edu.au
Sat Jul 12 12:26:15 CEST 2003


On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Torsten Andersen wrote:

> Yeah, in principle you are right. However, the example you give is a 
> waste of cpu time... as you can do convergence for RKM7 first, then 
> simply change to RKM8 in case.in1c and restart.

Hmm. What if you have a 2 or more CPU machine? In any case it's not a 
waste of cpu time as long as the OS can time-slice efficiently...

> Typically, the RKM8 case will then converge in 3 cycles if your
> potential is converged.
>

Sorry, the example was JUST an example.

Thanks for the shell script solution. It is a good alternative.

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