Arun Kumar Manna wrote: > I am facing problem during phonon calculation with PWscf. > It creates a lot of files of total size about 65GB and on > successfully completion of scf step, it starts to calculate > phonon step but after some time it was killed.
out of memory? if pw.x writes 65Gb (!) the system you have is big, maybe too big for a phonon calculation. Also note that for a full phonon calculation you need 3*Natoms linear-response calculations, each of which takes at least as much CPU time as the single SCF calcultion. Please do not send messages with a long useless quote (this is valid for everybody!) Paolo -- Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy
