[Wien] Restart

[Manish Singh]

Dear Wien users,

I know there was a thread on this one long time ago (please see below). I
seek a clarification regarding restarting a job. I have a supercell case
(complex calculation) which stopped after 20 out of 20 iterations. There
were no errors but since the convergence had not been achieved (as specified
in the dayfile, please see below), I would have to restart the job.
The last iteration was completed.
Now, how do I restart the calculation from the point it stopped:

Should I use 

run_lapw -s lapw0

because the next iteration would start from lapw0?

Should I use the -NI flag too (so as to continue from the same charge
history)? Or would the -s option take care of it on its own?

Also, would the -s option take care of the fact that the calculaton is
complex (lapw1 & lapw2)?

Regards,
Manish


    cycle 20    (Fri Jul 14 05:00:58 CDT 2006)  (1/1 to go)

>   lapw0       (05:00:58) 0.2u 0.1s 0:15 2% 355+937k 0+0io 8pf+0w
>   lapw1  -c   (05:01:13) 0.2u 0.1s 0:15 2% 360+928k 0+0io 7pf+0w
>   lapw2 -c    (05:01:29) 0.2u 0.1s 0:15 2% 364+882k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>   lcore       (05:01:44) 0.2u 0.0s 0:15 2% 361+917k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>   mixer       (05:02:08) 0.2u 0.1s 0:10 3% 352+878k 0+0io 0pf+0w
:ENERGY convergence:  0 0 0
:CHARGE convergence:  0 0.00001 .0001390
    restart
ec cc and fc_conv 1 0 1

>   stop


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Blaha [mailto:wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: [Wien] Restarting the calculation

> I have a large case with spin-orbit coupling. It will take several days to
run a single lapw1 step in SCF calculation. After one lapw1 step finishes, I
met a limited memory problem (i.e. the assigned memory is less than the one
during the case running ) when lapwso is running. So the program stoped due
to the memory problem. My question is how can I restart the SCF right where
it stoped after I increase the memory? Is this possible?
>
run_lapw -so -s lapwso

You can start at any "label" in run_lapw.
Have a look into this script. A "label" is

word:


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