[Wien] error in lapw2 - parallel

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Mar 22 08:40:57 CET 2013


You do not even have   lapw2*.error  files (which should exist and be 
empty).

What happens if you run:    x lapw2 -p    in a terminal ??

On 03/22/2013 08:35 AM, Mathrubutham Rajagopalan wrote:
> Dear Dr Peter,
>
> Thanks for the response
>
> The error does not occur in sequential run
>
> we have 8 processor But I used only four
>
> I opened the following files All are empty
>
>   dstart.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw0.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw1_1.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw1_2.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw1_3.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw1_4.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw1_5.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw1_6.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw1_7.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:59 lapw1.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:55 lcore.error
> 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 raja raja 0 Mar 24 11:55 mixer.error
>
> With out parallel the job runs without  any error
>
> Just now I tried to run Co2FeSi
> Again I got the same error
>
> Regards
> Raja
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Peter Blaha
> <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>> wrote:
>
>     My guess:
>
>     Since this is such a short test calculation for a parallel run, the NFS
>     might not have written all necessary files ??
>
>     Does the error occur in a sequential run ?
>
>     or if you use only   2 parallel jobs ??
>
>     ls -als *error        which error files are not empty ??
>
>     cat *.error   (without space !)
>
>
>     On 03/22/2013 07:49 AM, Gavin Abo wrote:
>
>         First, you entered the command incorrectly.  There should be no
>         space
>         between the '*' and '.error'.  However, your lapw2 error files still
>         seem to be empty.
>
>         Second, did you compile Wien2k with -traceback in the Compiler
>         options
>         line?  If not, you need to add it, recompile, and run the scf
>         again to
>         try to get more information on why lapw2 crashed.
>
>         On 3/22/2013 12:35 AM, Mathrubutham Rajagopalan wrote:
>
>             Dear Dr Gavin
>
>             raja at ubuntu://home/raja/work/__Cu$ cat lapw2* .error
>               2,'Cu.nsh',    'unknown','formatted',0
>               3,'Cu.in1',   'unknown','formatted',0
>               4,'Cu.inso',           'unknown','formatted',0
>               5,'Cu.in2',   'old',    'formatted',0
>               6,'Cu.output2','unknown','__formatted',0
>               7,'Cu.vorb','unknown','__formatted',0
>               8,'Cu.clmval','unknown','__formatted',0
>             10,'./Cu.vector', 'unknown','unformatted',9000
>             11,'Cu.weight',    'unknown','formatted',0
>             13,'Cu.recprlist',      'unknown','unformatted',9000
>             14,'Cu.kgen',        'unknown','formatted',0
>             15,'Cu.tmp',       'unknown','unformatted',0
>             16,'Cu.qtl',       'unknown','formatted',0
>             17,'Cu.weightaver','unknown','__formatted',0
>             18,'Cu.vsp',       'old',    'formatted',0
>             19,'Cu.vns',       'unknown','formatted',0
>             20,'Cu.struct',         'old',    'formatted',0
>             21,'Cu.scf2','unknown','__formatted',0
>             22,'Cu.rotlm',   'unknown',    'formatted',0
>             23,'Cu.radwf',   'unknown',    'formatted',0
>             26,'Cu.weigh',   'unknown','unformatted',0
>             27,'Cu.weighdn',   'unknown','unformatted',0
>             29,'Cu.energydn','unknown','__formatted',0
>             30,'Cu.energy', 'unknown','formatted',0
>             32,'Cu.qdmft',   'unknown',    'formatted',0
>             34,'Cu.oubwin',   'unknown',    'formatted',0
>             231,'Cu.dmftsym',   'unknown',    'formatted',0
>             cat: .error: No such file or directory
>             raja at ubuntu://home/raja/work/__Cu$
>
>             This is the error
>
>             Raja
>
>             On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Gavin Abo
>             <gsabo at crimson.ua.edu <mailto:gsabo at crimson.ua.edu>
>             <mailto:gsabo at crimson.ua.edu <mailto:gsabo at crimson.ua.edu>>>
>             wrote:
>
>                  What is the error in lapw2?
>
>                  The following command in a terminal while in the case
>             directory
>                  might give you more information on the cause of the error:
>
>                  cat lapw2*.error
>
>
>                  On 3/22/2013 12:03 AM, Mathrubutham Rajagopalan wrote:
>
>                      Dear developers and users,
>
>                      Greetings!
>                      Recently we installed recent Wien2k version with
>                 ubuntu OS in Dell server
>                      It is running without any problem.
>
>                      We have done the k-point parallelization.But it
>                 gives the following error in lapw2.
>                      we will be thankful to you if you can suggest how
>                 to overcome this
>
>                      regards
>                      raja
>
>
>                      start       (Mon Mar 24 11:23:08 IST 2003) with
>                 lapw0 (40/99 to go)
>
>                           cycle 1        (Mon Mar 24 11:23:08 IST 2003)
>                   (40/99 to go)
>
>                      >   lapw0 -p        (11:23:08) starting parallel
>                 lapw0 at Mon Mar 24 11:23:08 IST 2003
>                      -------- .machine0 : processors
>                      running lapw0 in single mode
>                      1.5u 0.1s 0:01.73 97.6% 0+0k 0+464io 0pf+0w
>                      >   lapw1  -p   -c  (11:23:10) starting parallel
>                 lapw1 at Mon Mar 24 11:23:10 IST 2003
>                      ->  starting parallel LAPW1 jobs at Mon Mar 24
>                 11:23:10 IST 2003
>                      running LAPW1 in parallel mode (using .machines)
>                      4 number_of_parallel_jobs
>                            ubuntu(11)      ubuntu(11)      ubuntu(11)
>                     ubuntu(11)      ubuntu(1)      ubuntu(1)
>                   ubuntu(1)    Summary of lapw1para:
>                          ubuntu   k=11    user=0  wallclock=11
>                      0.0u 0.0s 0:02.29 5.2% 0+0k 0+2040io 0pf+0w
>                      >   lapw2 -p   -c   (11:23:12) running LAPW2 in
>                 parallel mode
>                      **  LAPW2 crashed!
>                      0.0u 0.0s 0:00.11 45.4% 0+0k 0+184io 0pf+0w
>                      error: command   /home/raja/wien2k/lapw2cpara -c
>                 lapw2.def   failed
>
>                      >   stop error
>
>                      --
>                      */
>
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