It seems to converge just fine on my desktop pc.

I see that your outdir starts with /ccc, are you by any chance running on the CEA Irene Rome AMD machine?

I had all kind of random bad results on it, compiling with eithe ifort or nvfort (gfortran without mkl was fine but slow), to the point that I just gave and only use Idris since.

hth

On 28/08/2022 16:06, pboulet wrote:
Bonjour Lorenzo,

Thank you for your help.
The problem appears right at q-point #2 and representation #1.

I have put an archive of the most important files at this address (that hopefully help to reproduce/restart the calculations): https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=759fb88f-1374-4029-bcb4-73d7c23d7975 <https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=759fb88f-1374-4029-bcb4-73d7c23d7975>

Here is also a more detailed summary of the output file from ph.x.

At the beginning of the output:
>>>>>
     Reading input from Mg2Si.in <http://Mg2Si.in>

     Reading xml data from directory:

     ./Mg2Si.save/

     IMPORTANT: XC functional enforced from input :
     Exchange-correlation= PBE
                           (   1   4   3   4   0 0   0)
     Any further DFT definition will be discarded
     Please, verify this is what you really want


     Parallelization info
     --------------------
     sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:  dense   smooth      PW
     Min          41      41     12   1225     1225     192
     Max          42      42     13   1229     1229     195
     Sum        1993    1993    583  58887    58887    9257

     Using Slab Decomposition


     negative rho (up, down):  1.928E+00 0.000E+00
     Reading collected, re-writing distributed wavefunctions

     Saving dvscf to file. Distribute only q points, not irreducible represetations.
        7 /   8 q-points for this run, from  2 to  8:
       N       xq(1)         xq(2)         xq(3)
       1   0.000000000   0.000000000   0.000000000
       2  -0.250000000   0.250000000  -0.250000000
       3   0.500000000  -0.500000000   0.500000000
       4   0.000000000   0.500000000   0.000000000
       5   0.750000000  -0.250000000   0.750000000
       6   0.500000000   0.000000000   0.500000000
       7   0.000000000  -1.000000000   0.000000000
       8  -0.500000000  -1.000000000   0.000000000


     Calculation of q =   -0.2500000   0.2500000  -0.2500000

     Bands found: reading from ./_ph0/Mg2Si.q_2/

     Reading xml data from directory:

     ./_ph0/Mg2Si.q_2/Mg2Si.save/
     Message from routine qexsd_readschema :
     input info not found or not readable in xml file

     IMPORTANT: XC functional enforced from input :
     Exchange-correlation= PBE
                           (   1   4   3   4   0 0   0)
     Any further DFT definition will be discarded
     Please, verify this is what you really want

<<<<<<<<<<

Later in the output, that’s the q-point #2, where ph.x fails:
>>>>>
    Computing dynamical matrix for
                    q = (  -0.2500000 0.2500000  -0.2500000 )

      6 Sym.Ops. (no q -> -q+G )
<<<<<

Then, note that there is a lot of k-points for this q-point…
>>>>>>>>
     G cutoff = 1468.0362  (   1226 G-vectors)   FFT grid: ( 60, 60, 60)
     number of k points=   816
<<<<<<<<


For the representations:

>>>>>>>>
     Representation     1      1 modes -  To be done
     Irreps are as follows:

                     mode #   1
                     (  -0.57735   0.00000   )
                     (   0.57735  -0.00000   )
                     (  -0.57735  -0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )

     Representation     2      2 modes -  To be done
     Irreps are as follows:

           mode #   2 mode #   3
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (  -0.09481   0.00000   )  (  -0.81097   0.00000   )
           (   0.65492   0.00000   )  (  -0.48760  -0.00000   )
           (   0.74973   0.00000   )  (   0.32338   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )

     Representation     3      1 modes -  To be done
     Irreps are as follows:

                     mode #   4
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (  -0.57735   0.00000   )
                     (   0.57735   0.00000   )
                     (  -0.57735  -0.00000   )

     Representation     4      2 modes -  To be done
     Irreps are as follows:

           mode #   5 mode #   6
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (  -0.53501   0.00000   )  (  -0.61679   0.00000   )
           (  -0.31285   0.53223   )  (  -0.26906  -0.46166   )
           (   0.22215   0.53223   )  (   0.34773  -0.46166   )

     Representation     5      1 modes -  To be done
     Irreps are as follows:

                     mode #   7
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (  -0.57735   0.00000   )
                     (   0.57735   0.00000   )
                     (  -0.57735  -0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )
                     (   0.00000   0.00000   )

     Representation     6      2 modes -  To be done
     Irreps are as follows:

           mode #   8 mode #   9
           (  -0.40825   0.00000   )  (  -0.70711   0.00000   )
           (  -0.81648   0.00399   )  (  -0.00001  -0.00230   )
           (  -0.40824   0.00399   )  (   0.70710  -0.00230   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )
           (   0.00000   0.00000   )  (   0.00000   0.00000   )


     PHONON       :      7.65s CPU     11.31s WALL



     Representation #   1 mode #   1

     Self-consistent Calculation
     kpoint   5 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  2.227E+03      kpoint   6 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  1.393E+11      kpoint  13 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  1.425E+04      kpoint  14 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  1.223E+11      kpoint  21 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  1.368E+10
     kpoint 198 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  2.098E+11      kpoint 200 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  4.597E+03      kpoint 203 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  3.231E+11

      iter #  17 total cpu time :    77.1 secs av.it <http://av.it>.:  35.1
      thresh= 1.000E-02 alpha_mix =  0.100 |ddv_scf|^2 =  2.286E+37
     kpoint   5 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  7.024E-01      kpoint   6 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  5.781E+13      kpoint   7 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  2.895E+07      kpoint  12 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  3.097E+06
…
     iter #  18 total cpu time :   212.6 secs av.it <http://av.it>.:  83.3
      thresh= 1.000E-02 alpha_mix =  0.100 |ddv_scf|^2 =  4.537E+41
     kpoint   5 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  2.236E+14      kpoint   6 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  3.750E+00      kpoint   7 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  7.790E+14      kpoint  13 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  3.059E+10      kpoint  14 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  1.581E+18      kpoint  21 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  3.527E+19
…
<<<<<<<<<<<

If more information is needed, please ask me.

Best,
Pascal



Le 28 août 2022 à 10:21, Lorenzo Paulatto <lorenzo.paula...@cnrs.fr> a écrit :

Bonjour Pascal,

on which representation of which q-point does this happen?

The first rep of q-point 2 seems to converge perfectly fine on my PC.

I'd try to reproduce, but I would rather avoid repeating all the points.

cheers

On 27/08/2022 17:57, pboulet wrote:
Dear all,

I am encountering the problem mentioned in the subject of this post.

Do you know to solve this problem?

I am running ph.x on Mg2Si (not a big deal!) with NC pseudopotentials from dojo website.
I have optimized the structure, then ran a SCF with 60 k-points.

Here is the input for ph.x:
Mg2Si Phonon
&inputph
  verbosity   = 'high',
  alpha_mix(1)= 0.1,
  tr2_ph      = 1.0d-12,
  diagonalization = 'cg',
  prefix      = 'Mg2Si',
  ldisp       = .true.,
  epsil       = .true.,
  lqdir       = .true.,
  search_sym  = .false.
  fildyn      = 'Mg2Si.dyn.xml',
  fildvscf    = 'dvscf'
  recover     = .true.,
  start_q = 2, last_q = 8,
  nq1=4, nq2=4, nq3=4,
/

and a sample of the output:
iter #  41 total cpu time :  5901.1 secs av.it <http://av.it/>.: 210.4
      thresh= 1.000E-02 alpha_mix =  0.100 |ddv_scf|^2 =  1.350+100
     kpoint   3 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  3.699E+06      kpoint   4 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  2.570E+03      kpoint   5 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  1.322E+43      kpoint   6 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  4.836E+01      kpoint   7 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  2.110E-01      kpoint  12 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  2.237E+25      kpoint  13 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  1.420E+01      kpoint  14 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  1.199E+21      kpoint  15 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  6.741E+07      kpoint  18 sternheimer_kernel: root not converged, thresh <  8.917E+00

Note that the calculation ran fine for the Gamma point, so in the present run I ‘recovered’ for k-points 2 to 8.

The input file for the SCF calculation is:
&CONTROL
  title          = 'Mg2Si',
  calculation    = 'scf',
  etot_conv_thr  = 1d-9,
  tprnfor        = .true.,
  tstress        = .true.,
  restart_mode   = 'restart',
  verbosity      = 'high',
  prefix         = 'Mg2Si',
  wf_collect     = .true.,
/
&SYSTEM
  ibrav          = 2,
  celldm(1)      = 12.037d0,
  nat            = 3,
  ntyp           = 2,
  ecutwfc        = 100.d0,
  ecutrho        = 400.d0,
  occupations    = 'fixed',
  nbnd           = 20,
/
&ELECTRONS
  conv_thr       = 1d-12,
  mixing_beta    = 0.2d0,
/
ATOMIC_SPECIES
Mg 24.3 Mg.upf
Si 28.1 Si.upf

ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
Si       0.000000000   0.000000000 0.000000000
Mg       0.250000000   0.250000000 0.250000000
Mg       0.750000000   0.750000000 0.750000000

K_POINTS automatic
8 8 8 1 1 1

Thank you for your help and time.
Best regards,
Pascal

.
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—
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