geometry optimization unstable

sandeep kuma... at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 12:19:05 UTC 2012


Hi,
     And also, SCF is stable at each geometry optimization step (no 
oscillations).  Hope this can help somebody to answer this.

Regards,
sandeep



On Monday, August 6, 2012 8:42:18 AM UTC+5:30, sandeep wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>                 I am doing geometry optimization of a system containing 
> 576 atoms. When i ran it a machine having intel X5460 processor, i didn't 
> see any oscillations in total energies. It converges within some steps. 
> But, the same system shows oscillations on different machine (intel X5670 
> processor). 
>
> *Total energy :
> *
>
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>  -3895.857481194438606
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>  -3895.548983575820785
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>  -3895.454113226169284
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>  -3895.798586604405500
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>  -3895.406644262456666
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>  -3895.795520566227879
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>  -3895.400278104366862
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>  -3895.813855948710625
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.532866042457499
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.817657287906968
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.571135385605430
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.819301508552599
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.565533391461031
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.817356171838128
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.594185149152509
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.816696580745429
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>  -3895.537045230232707
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.813409116061393
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.549188327705451
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>  -3895.806053104601233
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>  -3895.659599977649577
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>  -3895.810634872865649
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>  -3895.540129332885954
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.808556044454690
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
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>  -3895.541664381568353
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>  -3895.811375715670692
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>  -3895.514473791798991
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>  -3895.521168700564431
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>  -3895.456123853706231
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>  -3895.816395686705164
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>  -3895.550635824096389
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.815701719725894
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.489804006631857
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.819771494755969
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>  -3895.566217729472100
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.802585890487080
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>  -3895.508774924785939
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>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.822501357248711
>  ENERGY| Total FORCE_EVAL ( QS ) energy (a.u.):           
>  -3895.651280964678790
>
>
> *Makefile :*
>
>
> INTEL_INC=/opt/intel/mkl/10.2.0.013/include
> INTEL_LIB=/opt/intel/mkl/10.2.0.013/lib/em64t/
> FFT_INC=/opt/intel/mkl/10.2.0.013/include/fftw
>
>
> CC       = cc
> CPP      = 
> FC       = mpiifort
> LD       = mpiifort
> AR       = ar -r
> DFLAGS   = -D__INTEL -D__FFTSG -D__parallel -D__BLACS -D__SCALAPACK 
> -D__FFTW3
> CPPFLAGS = 
> FCFLAGS  = $(DFLAGS) -I$(INTEL_INC) -I$(FFT_INC) 
> -I/opt/intel/impi/4.0.2/include64  -O3 -msse2 -heap-arrays 64 
> -funroll-loops -fpp -free
> FCFLAGS2 = $(DFLAGS) -I$(INTEL_INC) -I$(FFT_INC) -O1 -msse2 -heap-arrays 
> 64 -fpp -free
> LDFLAGS  = $(FCFLAGS) -I$(INTEL_INC)
> LIBS =  -L$(MKLROOT)/lib/intel64 
>  $(MKLROOT)/lib/intel64/libmkl_blas95_lp64.a 
>  $(MKLROOT)/lib/intel64/libmkl_lapack95_lp64.a \
>  -lmkl_scalapack_lp64 -lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_sequential -lmkl_core 
> -lmkl_blacs_intelmpi_lp64 -lpthread -lm $(INTEL_LIB)/libfftw3xf_intel.a 
>
>
> OBJECTS_ARCHITECTURE = machine_intel.o
>
>
> graphcon.o: graphcon.F
> $(FC) -c $(FCFLAGS2) $<
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I  used same Makefile on both architectures (Intel compilers 12.1).  I 
> tried with different optimization levels, but this too didn't help. And 
> also, it's not scaling more than one node on this machine. (each node 
> contains 12 processors).
>
> Do anybody faced similar problem ?  Any help in this regard is greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Sandeep
>
>
>
>
>
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