[Wien] How to speed up a reliable optimization

[Luis Ogando]

Dear Prof. Marks,

   Just for completeness, in the InP case I am using mBJ and I have checked
that during the last 20 regular SCF cycles the steps are changing from

:MIX  :   MSE1   REGULARIZATION: 6.30E-06  GREED: 0.317  Newton 1.00  0.22

to

:MIX  :   MSE1   REGULARIZATION: 4.93E-06  GREED: 0.437  Newton 1.00  1.14

   Thank you once more !
   All the best,
               Luis
* PS: Could you, please, clarify the meaning of the last two columns in the
:MIX line ?

2017-01-26 8:18 GMT-02:00 Luis Ogando <lcodacal at gmail.com>:

> Dear Prof. Marks,
>
>    Thank you very much for your answers ! I am pretty sure that your
> "intuition" will save a lot of computation time !
>    Just one last question: I have another system , a supercell formed by
> 15 InP zinc blend cells along [111] (hexagonal representation of the cubic
> lattice) and 3 InP wurtzite cells. They are aligned along the hexagonal "c"
> axis.
>                                      Comparing the gaps of the respective
> bulks and this supercell (same calculation parameters) , I believe that the
> SCF cycle (here, it is not a lattice optimization) stopped at a local
> minimum.
>                                       My question is : in this case
> (regular SCF cycle and InP cells), would you change any of your previous
> answers ?
>    Thank you again !!
>    All the best,
>                  Luis
>
>
> 2017-01-25 17:56 GMT-02:00 Laurence Marks <L-marks at northwestern.edu>:
>
>> Inlined is my intuition, which does not have to be completely right.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Luis Ogando <lcodacal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Prof. Marks (and Wien2k community),
>>>
>>>    After a recent discussion about "difficult" optimizations in this
>>> mailing list (subject: "Mixer surprise when using PBE0 hybrid on-site
>>> functional"), I would like ask you for an advice.
>>>    I have a system with:
>>> * 5 rings with C, H and N atoms
>>> * 100 atoms with P1 symmetry
>>> * the rings are out of a plane
>>> * vacuum along y and z
>>>    I know that this is a very hard optimization problem, so I would like
>>> to kindly ask:
>>>
>>> 1) Do you believe that MSEC3a will work better than MSR1a in such a case
>>> ?
>>>
>>
>> I would switch to MSEC3a, use SLOW or reduce the GREED to 0.1 only if you
>> see indications of problems. If the system is a decent insulator and the
>> experimental positions are quite good you may have no problems. At the end
>> I would switch back to MSR1a certainly for a system with OH as the
>> positions of the hydrogens can be quite soft. It can take quite some time
>> to get the rotations of the OH bond distance right as Wien2k uses cartesian
>> coordinates not polars. Which of the 3 is best -- I am not sure.
>>
>>>
>>> 2) Do you recommend using -it, -vec2pratt and -noHinv options with
>>> run_lapw ?
>>>
>>
>> I use -it -noHinv -vec2pratt. Sometimes you need to do an occasional full
>> diagonalization (touch .fulldiag) as the iterative method is less stable
>> (it adds a little noise). In my personal version I have added back the old
>> -itn option so this is done automatically every few steps.
>>
>>>
>>> 3) Should I reduce TRUST to 0.5 (I am using LDA and experimental values
>>> for the initial atomic positions) ?
>>>
>>
>> Probably not. TRUST 0.5 would be if it is taking much too large steps
>> which tends (in my experience) to occur more with soft electronic modes
>> such as one has with d and f electrons.
>>
>>>
>>> 4) Should I use SLOW in case.inm ?
>>>
>>
>> See my answer to 1)
>>
>>>
>>>    Many thanks in advance.
>>>    All the best,
>>>                       Luis
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
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