Hello,
This seems a basic question, but I am struggling a bit to understand how siesta works out where to get its input data from. The documentation states it reads from standard input, so to run it do siesta < INPUT.fdf This is how my latest compiled version works. HOWEVER I have another version I compiled a while ago which reads from INPUT_FILE.fdf by default, but standard input if this file doesn't exist. I built this in collaboration with a research group - is it perhaps a slightly modified version, or has this feature existed in previous versions of siesta ? It is actually a good feature for us, due to the way we submit parallel jobs with use of wrapper scripts, which find the unix re-direction (<) problematical. Grateful for any assistance! thanks, Colin Dr. Colin Bannister HPC Service Manager Information Services The University of Nottingham Kings Meadow Campus Lenton Lane Nottingham NG7 2NR United Kingdom Tel: 44 115 9513326 www: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczcb/ <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczcb/> This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.
