[Wien] errors in lapw

2012-02-03 Thread Bin Shao
Dear all, I am running wien2k 11.1 on a cluster with Centos 6 under a pbs queuing system. The job is submitted in a k-point parallel mode and the total 36 kpoints are divided by 16 cups. But there comes some errors in lapw2 and the dnlapw2_18/19/20.error files are not empty. At the same time, the

[Wien] errors in lapw

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Blaha
Clearly you should write your job script such that it divides the 36 k-points in a meaningful way. In principle you can use 36,18,9,6,4,or 3 parallel jobs, but 16 us not meaningful. Furthermore, it seems that your cluster has problems with heavy I/O (NFS) and this is most likely the reason