[Wien] Wien2k stops completely

[EB Lombardi]

The web addresses for memtest86 in my previous e-mail should be:  
www.memtest.org  and www.memtest86.com
Regards
Enrico

EB Lombardi wrote:
> Dear Mr. Konior
>
> This sounds like a hardware problem, since the different software 
> setups you mentioned result in the same behaviour. Some test programs 
> you can try are memtest86 (www.memtest86.org) and prime95 
> (http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm) - see also their Stress Testing 
> comments included with the program for suggestions.
>
> lapw1 generates a lot of heat - any sub-par components will fail here, 
> especially with jobs that run longer and allow the machine to get hotter.
>
> Regards
>
> Enrico
>
>
> konior at if.uj.edu.pl wrote:
>> Dear Wien2k users,
>>
>> We installed Wien2k and run test for simple systems without any problem.
>>
>> Then, the trouble came when I started calculations for bigger 
>> systems, around 20 atoms par unit cell or more. For some unknown 
>> reasons, the 'lapw1c' part either stops the whole computer completely 
>> or sometimes makes the computer reset. Even more surprisingly, I 
>> checked that running Wien2k with for the same system generally goes 
>> further (in time, but not always till the end of the iteration) if 
>> simultaneously another program is running.
>>
>> The machine is 2 x Xeon 3.2 GHz with 8 GB RAM, plus the Mandriva 
>> Linux, the compiler is Lahey Fortran 95 for Linux. Previously, with 
>> the Fedora Linux plus IFORT I found the same behavior.
>>
>> I run Wien2k on many variations, on one, two, three, or four 
>> processors, alone or with some other programs running. I suspect that 
>> probably our machine (memory, motherboard, processor) has some 
>> failure, but how to prove it?
>>
>> Did anyone of you have similar problems? Any help or suggestions 
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> -- 
>> Jerzy Konior
>> Institute of Physics
>> Jagellonian University
>> Krakow, Poland
>>
>>
>> Pozdrawiam,
>>
>> -- 
>> Jerzy Konior
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Wien mailing list
>> Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>> http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien
>>
>>   
>

-- 
Dr. E.B. Lombardi
Physics Department
University of South Africa
P.O. Box 392
0003 UNISA
South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)12 429-8654 / 8027
Fax: +27 (0)12 429-3643
e-mail: lombaeb at science.unisa.ac.za