[CP2K:4633] restarting NEB calculations.
Zhendong Guo
zhendon... at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 09:19:52 UTC 2016
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 1:39:56 PM UTC+2, Teo wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Jörg Saßmannshausen <j.sas... at ucl.ac.uk
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> > in the same directory where I done the calculation but alas! it appears
> it
> > started again from scratch. The file sm-scan3-1_275.restart is the last
> restart
> > file I got so I assumed it contains all the required information.
> the energies that you will get from your NEB must be identical (up to the
> SCF convergence) to the one of the frame corresponding to the restart file.
> Is this the case?
>
> If not, check the keywords that control aligment..
> Also, not all information are stored in the restart file. For instance,
> the DIIS vectors are not. This means that the first steps may be offline
> regarding the gradients, but the energy of the first point MUST be
> identical to the one of the frame when restart was written.
>
> > If I cannot restart it that way, and as I am close to the convergence
> > criteria, can I simply use the last frames and use that as a starting
> point? I
> yes
>
> Teo
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