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      On 6/9/2015 8:23 AM, Pascal Boulet wrote:<br>
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      <div>Hello,</div>
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      <div>Why do you set rkmax to such a small value (3)? My little
        experience tells me that the larger rkmax the better the
        accuracy of the calculation. The  default value of 7 is most of
        the time a good choice…</div>
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      <div>Pascal</div>
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        <div>Le 9 juin 2015 à 14:25, Farshad Nejadsattari <<a
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          <div dir="ltr">Thank you professor Blaha for your guidance,
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            <div>   I think the problem was with the number of k-points
              that I used, I reduced the number and now the SCF cycles
              are being completed with less cpu time consumed.</div>
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            <div>with regards,</div>
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            <div>Farshad Nejadsattari</div>
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            <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:14 PM,
              Peter Blaha <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Clearly,
                1000 k-points (at least in a first scf cycle) are much
                too much.<br>
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                In any case, do:<br>
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                top        does it show a running lapw1 ? Is it using
                (near 100%) cpu time. ?<br>
                Is there enough memory on this computer ?<br>
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                and check   case.output1(up ?)<br>
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                It lists every k-point (matrix size and cpu-time. So
                even from a partial output1 file you<br>
                should see how long one k-point takes and can estimate
                how long all should last.
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                    Am 08.06.2015 um 18:40 schrieb Farshad Nejadsattari:<br>
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                      Dear Professor Blaha and wien2k community,<br>
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                          I am working on a structure composed of Fe,
                      Se, O, H and Li atoms, the initialization steps
                      for the SCF calculations proceeded without any
                      problem, though after almost<br>
                      a week of running the calculations nonstop, the
                      first iteration of the SCF cycle has not yet been
                      completed, it is still at the lapw1 stage.<br>
                          I have worked on other compounds of rather
                      higher complexity and never have faced this type
                      of problem, I would truly appreciate your
                      assistance in resolving this issue.<br>
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                          I have attached my case.struct file below and
                      in the initialization procedure I have used a
                      separation energy of -6 Ry, 1000 k- points and an
                      rkmax of 3 because of the<br>
                      existence of hydrogen (I have also tried rkmax 5).<br>
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                      with regards,<br>
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                      Farshad Nejadsattari<br>
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