[Wien] Still problem with CLMSUM

L. D. Marks L-marks at northwestern.edu
Sun Mar 12 20:20:52 CET 2006


Is case.vns/case.vsp being correctly created, and are you running lapw0 
locally or remotely with -p?

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Jorissen Kevin wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been seeing similar problems as Michael.  The zeroes - and the problem - originate in lapw0.
> I've been meaning to send more details, but the machine I've been testing on has crashed, and I'm unable to for the moment.
>
> kind regards
>
>
> Kevin.
>
>
> Kevin Jorissen
>
>
>
> Kevin Jorissen
> University of Washington
> Dept. of Physics
> Box 351560
> Seattle, WA-98195-1560
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> From: wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at on behalf of L. D. Marks
> Sent: Sun 3/12/2006 5:24
> To: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users
> Subject: Re: [Wien] Still problem with CLMSUM
>
>
>
> The values in the case.clmval should not be zero. What you sent suggests
> that the problem is not in mixer, but somewhere earlier. The case.clmval
> files are produced by lapw2 and some related codes, so the next issue
> is to determine whether the problem is in lapw2, the related codes or
> earlier in lapw1.
>
> a) Look at all the clmval files, i.e. "grep -e PW *.clmval_* -A 5". Do
> these all show zero's for the PW's ? If they don't, this implies a problem
> in sumpara which adds them.
>
> b) Look at case.output2, do the bandranges look reasonable?
>
> c) Do a "grep -e :CHA *.output2_*", is lapw2 giving you charge?
>
> d) Look at your case.scf1_X (X=1,2... for as many processors as you used).
> Do the eigenvalues look reasonable.
>
> e) You mentioned something about it working with a smaller GMAX. Can you
> run it with a smaller GMAX, and then increase the value to find when/if it
> breaks. (Save the calculations before increasing GMAX.) This is quite safe
> to do.
>
> I would suspect that you have a problem related to the very large number
> of your plane waves, but have no idea which code and until you narrowed
> down more it's hard to help.
>
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Laurence Marks
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall
2220 N Campus Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820
email: L-marks at northwestern dot edu
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