Re: [QE-users] Phonon - 6.3- problem

2018-10-10 Thread Suresh A
Dear Christoph Wolf, Thanks for your support. Yes, I compile it myself using gfortran and openmpi software. 1) Do I have to use other version? Could you please suggest me which version exactly for workstation? I am asking this because you

Re: [QE-users] Phonon - 6.3- problem

2018-10-10 Thread Christoph Wolf
I see you are using the MAX version. If I remember correctly I also had a minor problem with that one at some point. Did you compile it yourself? Which compiler and libraries did you use? In my limited experience intels compiler and mkl works with the least hassle. What is the required RAM (scf

Re: [QE-users] Phonon - 6.3- problem

2018-10-10 Thread Suresh A
Dear Christoph Wolf, Thanks for your reply. The RAM size in my our department workstation is 32 GB. I will also try to use small jobs. The commands I used are [Dell@centos7 ~]$ /lib64/openmpi/bin/mpirun -np 24 /home/Dell/qe-6.3/bin/ph.x /home/Dell/phonon/relaxed/ph.out^C

Re: [QE-users] Phonon - 6.3- problem

2018-10-09 Thread Christoph Wolf
Sometimes a single process can crash and cause others to hang. Are you sure you have plenty of RAM available (ph.x requires more RAM than pw.x in my experience). Try running a smaller job on a single processor first. Also try avoiding hyperthreading (depending on if you have 30 physical cores or

[QE-users] Phonon - 6.3- problem

2018-10-09 Thread Suresh A
Dear All, I recently downloaded q-e-6.3 and installed it into my workstation consisting of 30 processors. While I ran phonon calculation for anatase unitcell, I observed an error. Computing dynamical matrix for q = ( 0.500 0.250 -0.1020743 ) for this