Re: [QE-users] ?==?utf-8?q? Anisotropic exchange calculation

2020-11-16 Thread BARRETEAU Cyrille
OK OK I did not understand precisely your initial message. Indeed my message concerned the isotropic exchange. If you need to evaluate some kind of anisotropy you indeed must include spin-orbit. If the evaluation of your magnetic parameters involves only collinear configurations (up, dn etc..)

Re: [QE-users] (no subject) (Yang Liu)

2020-11-16 Thread liuyang
Dear Peshal Karki I've run into similar situation when I did nscf calculation weeks ago. I also tried to play with ecutwfc, ecutrho etc, but made no differences. I see somewhere that diago_david_ndim in ELECTRONS card determines how many planes to use in diagonalization of the central equation

[QE-users] QE terminated with error when running with parallel diagonalization (Yang Liu)

2020-11-16 Thread lysea
Dear QE community I am running a geometry relax job with QE-6.6, compiled with Intel Parallel Studio 2020 on CentOS7. When I run the calculation with "mpirun -np 56 -in inputfile > outputfile", the calculation runs and ends normally. If I setup parallel diagonalization, e.g. "mpirun -np 56 -n

[QE-users] Information about WFC file format

2020-11-16 Thread Aaron Friesz
Hello, I am looking for specific information about the wfc output files. I would like to use the output wave functions in my own calculations and I'm finding the specific data about these files to be sparse or buried. Any hints on where this information can be found? Things I need to know inclu

[QE-users] Optimal QE setup for molecular crystals (pseudopotentials, k-space campling, performance) ..

2020-11-16 Thread Husak Michal
Hi all ... Before I continue I would like to mentioned I had done the homework on this topic (checked mail list, studied about 20 related articles, done a few hundred test calculations by QE and CASTEP) ... The target of my work is to verify (enhance quality) of X-ray based molecular crystal

Re: [QE-users] Sub optimal performance on 32 core AMD machine

2020-11-16 Thread Carlo Nervi
While compiling with gcc/gfortran use -march=native option. With Intel i guess it is -xHost This will enable the CPU native instruction. With Epyc I guess a lot depends on the libraries. With gcc I used openblas and fftw3. On Ryzen they work great. HTH, Carlo Il giorno lun 16 nov 2020 alle ore 18:

Re: [QE-users] ?==?utf-8?q? Anisotropic exchange calculation

2020-11-16 Thread Dorye Esteras Cordoba
Dear Cyrille, Thank you for your prompt response. About your first comment, the procedure you describe using collinear states, please correct me if I am wrong, corresponds to the exchange calculations in the isotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian. Or does it mean instead that could I obtain the anis

Re: [QE-users] CASTEP to QE setup parameters conversions

2020-11-16 Thread Nicola Marzari
On 15/11/2020 21:26, Paolo Giannozzi wrote: CASTEP uses norm-conserving pseudopotentials only, if I remember correctly, so the cutoff on the charge density (ecutrho) can be set to ecutrho=4*ecutwfc. Not very improtant for QE, but for the record they have ultrasoft - Chris Pickard coded tho

Re: [QE-users] Sub optimal performance on 32 core AMD machine

2020-11-16 Thread Husak Michal
No. I do no use hyperthreading. I had checked both OpenMPI and OpenMP - in outup file ... It shows what I set by the launch and enviromental variable correctly. If I use more than 4 cores in any way, I get no speed up ... From: users on behalf of Pietro Delugas S

Re: [QE-users] Anisotropic exchange calculation

2020-11-16 Thread BARRETEAU Cyrille
Dear Dorye Could you be more explicit? If you want to estimate J exchange parameters from energy differences of collinear states (using a super cell and various UP and DN configurations) you do not need any non-collinear calculation. I you want to use a non-collinear approach with small deviati

[QE-users] Anisotropic exchange calculation

2020-11-16 Thread Dorye Esteras Cordoba
Dear community, I am interested in calculating the CrBr3 J exchange parameters of an anisotropic Heisenberg Hamiltonian as it is shown in this paper: https://doi.org/10.1039/C2DT31662E (Equations A16 and A17 on section D in the appendix) My idea would be to perform a collinear spin-polarized s

Re: [QE-users] Sub optimal performance on 32 core AMD machine

2020-11-16 Thread Pietro Delugas
Hi Are you using hyperthreading ? If yes, you should try to use only 32 cores. Check the total number of processors at the beginning of the run. The program makes an intense usage of the cpus so that hyperthreading is usually inefficient. Pietro Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Micha

[QE-users] Sub optimal performance on 32 core AMD machine

2020-11-16 Thread Michal Husak
I had purchased a new PC with 2x 16 core AMD EPYC processors . 64 cores with hyper threading ... I was hoping my QM programs (Quantum Espresso, CASTEP) will run on the new system faster, than on my old 4 core i7 Intel machine (8 year old) To my great surprise, the opposite is almost true :-