[Wien] issue with balance: keyword in .machines

2024-05-29 Thread Straus, Daniel B
Hi, I am trying to use the balance: keyword in .machines to allocate k-points on-the-fly rather than all at once because even though all nodes on the cluster I use are identical, some k-points are computed much faster than others. When running a band structure calculation (x lapw1 -band -up

[Wien] Mysterious errors parallel jobs

2024-05-13 Thread Straus, Daniel B
Hi, I am trying to run WIEN2k 23.2 on a Slurm cluster using a modified version of the example scripts to make the .machines file. The jobs seem to be running okay, but there are nondescript messages in the .error files I am trying to figure out. For instance, when running a 4 node job with

[Wien] Logging output issue for parallel jobs?

2024-05-02 Thread Straus, Daniel B
Hi, I'm running ver 23.2 on a SLURM-managed cluster. I've been looking at the :parallel file for job step timing to optimize performance. I think there is a minor bug in the output, where it refers to lapw0 as lapw1. Here is relevant text from a :parallel file: starting parallel lapw1 at Wed

Re: [Wien] w2web xcrysden problem

2024-04-26 Thread Straus, Daniel B
the XCrysDen command similar: xcrysden --wien_struct $DIR" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression Kind Regards, Gavin WIEN2k user On 4/23/2024 9:35 AM, Straus, Daniel B wrote: I am having a problem where only some of the xcrysden functionality works in w2web. Execution-->

Re: [Wien] SLURM cluster issues

2024-04-26 Thread Straus, Daniel B
Hi Peter, Thanks for the response. In case this is helpful to anyone in the future: To get w2web working on the cluster and not get banned for accidentally running things on the login node, I modified the w2web source so it does not create a new configuration for every node by fixing the host

[Wien] w2web xcrysden problem

2024-04-23 Thread Straus, Daniel B
I am having a problem where only some of the xcrysden functionality works in w2web. Execution-->view structure does not work. The following message is printed: View structure with XCrysDen Requires X-Windows system ... However, if I go to Tasks-->El. Dens. and click either the Calculate density

[Wien] SLURM cluster issues

2024-04-15 Thread Straus, Daniel B
Hi, I am trying to set up WIEN2k ver 23.2 to run on a SLURM cluster. I have gotten it to work with SCALAPACK, runnning with a slurm batch submission script through w2web by following the examples. I have two issues. 1. Is it possible to make the "x dstart" button in the initialize web