Dear Prof. Paolo, Thanks a lot for your reply.
> which QE code and which files are you referring to? < That is phonon code (ph.x) and the files I mentioned before are given below in detail. With the earlier versions up to 4.1.3, phonon code runs fine and I got following files (bold and underlined items are folders) in the tmp directory of a local disk. The nodes which are used by the codes are node186, 036, 139. node186:/tmpscratch/sksct8/tmp$ ls > *pbmno.save* _phpbmno.com1 _phpbmno.dwf2 _phpbmno.igk3 > _phpbmno.prd3 > pbmno.wfc1 _phpbmno.com2 _phpbmno.dwf3 _phpbmno.mixd1 > _phpbmno.recover > pbmno.wfc2 _phpbmno.com3 _phpbmno.ebar1 _phpbmno.mixd2 > _phpbmno.recover2 > pbmno.wfc3 _phpbmno.dvkb31 _phpbmno.ebar2 _phpbmno.mixd3 > _phpbmno.recover3 > _phpbmno.bar1 _phpbmno.dvkb32 _phpbmno.ebar3 *_phpbmno.phsave** * * > _phpbmno.save* > _phpbmno.bar2 _phpbmno.dvkb33 _phpbmno.igk _phpbmno.prd1 > _phpbmno.bar3 _phpbmno.dwf1 _phpbmno.igk2 _phpbmno.prd2 > node036:/tmpscratch/sksct8/tmp$ ls pbmno.wfc4 _phpbmno.dwf4 _phpbmno.mixd4 _phpbmno.recover4 pbmno.wfc5 _phpbmno.dwf5 _phpbmno.mixd5 _phpbmno.recover5 _phpbmno.bar4 _phpbmno.igk4 _phpbmno.prd4 _phpbmno.wfc4 _phpbmno.bar5 _phpbmno.igk5 _phpbmno.prd5 _phpbmno.wfc5 node139:/tmpscratch/sksct8/tmp$ ls pbmno.wfc6 _phpbmno.bar8 _phpbmno.igk7 _phpbmno.recover6 _phpbmno.wfc8 pbmno.wfc7 _phpbmno.dwf6 _phpbmno.igk8 _phpbmno.recover7 pbmno.wfc8 _phpbmno.dwf7 _phpbmno.prd6 _phpbmno.recover8 _phpbmno.bar6 _phpbmno.dwf8 _phpbmno.prd7 _phpbmno.wfc6 _phpbmno.bar7 _phpbmno.igk6 _phpbmno.prd8 _phpbmno.wfc7 However, with the new version 4.3.1, for the exactly same input files and job scripts I only get these files and nothing else : node045:/tmpscratch/sksct84/tmp$ ls *pbmno.save* pbmno.wfc1 *_ph0* node111:/tmpscratch/sksct84/tmp$ ls pbmno.wfc2 pbmno.wfc3 node092:/tmpscratch/sksct84/tmp$ ls pbmno.wfc4 pbmno.wfc5 node080:/tmpscratch/sksct84/tmp$ ls pbmno.wfc6 pbmno.wfc7 node072:/tmpscratch/sksct84/tmp$ ls pbmno.wfc8 Note that, the used nodes in this time are node045, node111, node092, node080, node072. So it is clear from the above example that somehow in the new version 4.3.1, _phpbmno.save and _phpbmno.phsave goes inside the directory "_ph0" ; And the same phonon calculation, which was running fine with the earlier version, now stops like this way (a bit abruptly and rudely, with out much informations or error messages) : Electric field: Dielectric constant Born effective charges in two ways Atomic displacements: There are 5 irreducible representations Representation 1 3 modes -T_1u G_15 G_4- To be done Representation 2 3 modes -T_1u G_15 G_4- To be done Representation 3 3 modes -T_1u G_15 G_4- To be done Representation 4 3 modes -T_1u G_15 G_4- To be done Representation 5 3 modes -T_2u G_25 G_5- To be done simply with this error : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 2 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD with errorcode 0. NOTE: invoking MPI_ABORT causes Open MPI to kill all MPI processes. You may or may not see output from other processes, depending on exactly when Open MPI kills them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- mpirun has exited due to process rank 2 with PID 8791 on node node111.cvos.cluster exiting without calling "finalize". This may have caused other processes in the application to be terminated by signals sent by mpirun (as reported here). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [node045:11580] 6 more processes have sent help message help-mpi-api.txt / mpi-abort [node045:11580] Set MCA parameter "orte_base_help_aggregate" to 0 to see all help / error messages Hope this email explains much better. Thanks and Regards, Saha SK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20110906/78efc62c/attachment.htm