If you haven't already done so, I would suggest looking at the content in the files .timeop_1, .timeop_2, ... , and .timeop_X (e.g., while in the case directory: cat .timeop_*), because an error message might be logged in these files for a parallel optic calculation.

On 4/21/2016 3:44 PM, Maciej Polak wrote:
Dear WIEN2k Community,

I want to calculate the joint density of states but I ran into some problems with parallel execution of x optic. I use only K-point parallelization and run the newest 14.2 version of WIEN2k.

When I do sequential calculations, it all works fine. But for bigger cases, and many K-points it is impossible to finish on one CPU. After I add the -p flag to the relevant procedures, the last output I see is: running OPTIC in parallel mode. From then, nothing happens. The optic_X.def files are generated, and an optic.error file containing "Error in Parallel OPTIC", nothing else. The code just stands still after that, no activity on CPUs.

A simple minimalistic example to reproduce the error:

init_lapw -bw -vxc 5 -rkmax 7 -numk 1000 -red 2
run_lapw -p
x kgen <<< 10000
x lapw1 -p
x lapw2 -fermi -p
x optic -p

The same set of calculations, without the -p flag, would work just fine. However, when I generate a bigger k-mesh and have a large number of atoms it is absolutely impossible to perform the calculations on a single core.

Regular k-point calculations (geometry optimization, bandstructures, etc.) work perfectly.

I attached my *.struct and *.inop, but they are not the problem in this case, since they work with sequential version as intended. This is just a super simple FCC Si calculation just for testing.

I would really appreciate any help. I tried to read through the mailing list, but couldn't find a similar problem.

Best regards,

Maciej Polak
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
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