Problem CELL_OPT
Matthias Krack
matthia... at psi.ch
Tue Jun 13 13:39:57 UTC 2017
Hi Carlo
did you try BFGS as optimizer with TYPE DIRECT_CELL_OPT instead of CG,
since your system is not too large?
Best regards
Matthias
On Tuesday, 13 June 2017 09:36:02 UTC+2, c.pignedoli wrote:
>
> Dear all I have a problem with CELL_OPT
> I am using cp2k 5.0 svn 17619.
>
> If I do
>
> TYPE DIRECT_CELL_OPT
>
> i have in the output that Max grad is always 0.001
> but the atoms are not moving and the job runs forever.
>
>
> If I do
> TYPE GEO_OPT
>
> in the several .out files of the geometry optimization steps
> I see that Max gradient converges to my requested threshold 0.0001
>
> but in cp2k.out I have Max Gradinet 0.001 and the job never stops.
>
> Also, I would like to avoid having a .restart and a .out and a .wfn saved
> for each step of the CELL_OPT
> but what I specified in the cp2k.inp seems not effective.
>
> Can you help me?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Carlo
>
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