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*Sign your post with your name and affiliation.* nicola On 08/03/2016 19:37, Malicious Scientist wrote: > Hello Community, > > I would like to know if it is possible top stop a pw.x run, copy to > files to a different machine, and then restart the computation. > > For example, to stop the execution, I would create a $prefix.EXIT file > on the working directory (just like described at > http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/pw_user_guide/node19.html). > > After that, I would copy the entire working directory, including the > scratch dir, to a remote server with the same version of QE installed. > Then I would restart the computation setting the 'restart_mode' flag to > 'restart' at the CONTROL namelist. > > Is this supposed to work? If so, may I restart the computation with a > different number of CPUs? > > Thank you for your attention. > > > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum@pwscf.org > http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Nicola Marzari, Chair of Theory and Simulation of Materials, EPFL Director, National Centre for Competence in Research NCCR MARVEL, EPFL http://theossrv1.epfl.ch/Main/Contact http://nccr-marvel.ch/en/project _______________________________________________ Pw_forum mailing list Pw_forum@pwscf.org http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum