[CP2K:8808] very long calculation time

Amin amin.jaf... at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 13:36:17 UTC 2017


I couldn't be able to attach the output file here.
I need LSD, because the calculation done by VASP was spin polarized.
Here is the information about the last step of optimization- after that 
calculations reached wall-time and stopped:

 --------  Informations at step =    18 ------------
  Optimization Method        =                 BFGS
  Total Energy               =     -5827.0471607579
  Real energy change         =         0.0858127047
  Predicted change in energy =       -14.5174588205
  Scaling factor             =         0.0077495614
  Step size                  =         0.4724315332
  Trust radius               =         0.4724315332
  Decrease in energy         =                   NO
  Used time                  =               93.234

  Convergence check :
  Max. step size             =         0.4724315332
  Conv. limit for step size  =         0.0030000000
  Convergence in step size   =                   NO
  RMS step size              =         0.0495642754
  Conv. limit for RMS step   =         0.0015000000
  Convergence in RMS step    =                   NO
  Max. gradient              =         0.1337540443
  Conv. limit for gradients  =         0.0004500000
  Conv. for gradients        =                   NO
  RMS gradient               =         0.0130474061
  Conv. limit for RMS grad.  =         0.0003000000
  Conv. for gradients        =                   NO
 ---------------------------------------------------

  ----------------------------------- OT 
---------------------------------------
  Minimizer      : CG                  : conjugate gradient
  Preconditioner : FULL_ALL            : diagonalization, state selective
  Precond_solver : DEFAULT
  Line search    : 2PNT                : 2 energies, one gradient
  stepsize       :    0.15000000                  energy_gap     :   
 0.08000000
  eps_taylor     :   0.10000E-15                  max_taylor     :         
    4
  ----------------------------------- OT 
---------------------------------------

  Step     Update method      Time    Convergence         Total energy   
 Change
  
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     1 OT CG       0.15E+00    8.8     0.00180844     -5825.0697567570 
-5.83E+03


On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 12:11:02 PM UTC+1, jgh wrote:
>
> Hi 
>
> you still didn't answer my question: 
>
> is your 'long' simulation time caused by: 
>
> - slow convergence of geometry optimization 
>      ==> Numbers please. 
> - slow convergence of SCF 
>      ==> How many iterations? Did it converge at all? 
> - high CPU time per SCF cycle? 
>      ==> Give us some numbers. It is impossible to say something 
>          without having any information. 
>
> Do you really need LSD? 
>
> regards 
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------- 
> Juerg Hutter                         Phone : ++41 44 635 4491 
> Institut für Chemie C                FAX   : ++41 44 635 6838 
> Universität Zürich                   E-mail: hut... at chem.uzh.ch 
> Winterthurerstrasse 190 
> CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland 
> --------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> -----cp... at googlegroups.com wrote: -----To: cp2k <cp... at googlegroups.com> 
> From: Amin 
> Sent by: cp... at googlegroups.com 
> Date: 03/13/2017 12:07PM 
> Subject: Re: [CP2K:8808] very long calculation time 
>
> To add up some thing: I think that is because of the slow convergence of 
> the SCF.The interesting point is that with 48 atoms in my supercell, SCF 
> converged in less than one hour! but now with 192 atoms, it takes more than 
> a week (even more!, because it hasn't converged yet!) 
>
> On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 11:57:14 AM UTC+1, Amin wrote:Thank you very 
> much for your swift reply.I am replicating a calculation that has been done 
> previously by VASP. at first I tried to calculate adsorption energy with 48 
> atoms in my supercell, but there was a major difference between my results 
> and the previous one. Then I modified my structure to include more atoms. 
> I'll try to apply your suggestions but I also attach my complete input file 
> in case that it might help to give a better perspective. -Because of this 
> point that calculation stopped after reaching the wall-time, I set the new 
> input file to use the Restart wave-function. But I'm not sure that it's 
> been done correctly! Sorry if my questions are so rudimentary!  
> I sincerely appreciate your time and considerations. 
>
> &GLOBAL  PROJECT  Chemisorption-newconf  RUN_TYPE GEO_OPT  PRINT_LEVEL 
> LOW  EXTENDED_FFT_LENGTHS&END GLOBAL 
> &FORCE_EVAL  METHOD Quickstep               &DFT    WFN_RESTART_FILE_NAME 
> Chemisorption-newconf-RESTART.wfn     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME  BASIS_MOLOPT    
> POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME  GTH_POTENTIALS    LSD    CHARGE 0    MULTIPLICITY 1    
> &MGRID        CUTOFF 800        REL_CUTOFF 60    &END MGRID    &QS       
>  METHOD GPW        EPS_DEFAULT 1.0E-12    &END QS    &POISSON       
>  PERIODIC XYZ    &END POISSON    &SCF                              
> SCF_GUESS RESTART      EPS_SCF 1.0E-6      MAX_SCF 100      &OT       
>  PRECONDITIONER FULL_ALL        MINIMIZER CG      &END OT      &OUTER_SCF   
>      MAX_SCF 20        EPS_SCF 1.0E-6      &END OUTER_SCF    &END SCF    
> &XC                             &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE      &END XC_FUNCTIONAL  
>     &VDW_POTENTIAL        DISPERSION_FUNCTIONAL PAIR_POTENTIAL       
>  &PAIR_POTENTIAL                TYPE DFTD3(BJ)               
>  REFERENCE_FUNCTIONAL PBE                CALCULATE_C9_TERM .FALSE.         
>        PARAMETER_FILE_NAME dftd3.dat                R_CUTOFF 15.0       
>  &END PAIR_POTENTIAL      &END VDW_POTENTIAL    &END XC  &END DFT 
>   &SUBSYS    &CELL      ABC 15.138 15.138 30.0000      PERIODIC XYZ     
> &END CELL    &TOPOLOGY      COORD_FILE_FORMAT XYZ      COORD_FILE_NAME 
>  ./Anatase001-192.xyz    &END    &KIND C      ELEMENT C      BASIS_SET 
> DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH      POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q4    &END KIND     &KIND Ti      
> ELEMENT Ti      BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH      POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q12    
> &END KIND    &KIND O      ELEMENT O      BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH      
> POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q6    &END KIND  &END SUBSYS  &PRINT       
>  &TOTAL_NUMBERS ON        &END TOTAL_NUMBERS  &END PRINT&END 
> FORCE_EVAL&MOTION        &GEO_OPT          OPTIMIZER BFGS         
>  MAX_FORCE 4.50000000E-004        &END        &CONSTRAINT         
>  &FIXED_ATOMS                LIST 0..95          &END FIXED_ATOMS       
>  &END CONSTRAINT&END MOTION 
> On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 11:35:58 AM UTC+1, jgh wrote:Hi 
>
>
>
> is your 'long' simulation time caused by: 
>
>
>
> - slow convergence of geometry optimization 
>
> - slow convergence of SCF 
>
> - high CPU time per SCF cycle? 
>
>
>
> To improve CPU time per SCF I would suggest (guessing without 
>
> knowing your full input) 
>
> - use only MOLOPT-SR basis sets 
>
> - reduce EPS_DEFAULT to 1.e-10 
>
> - Preconditioner -> FULL_SINGLE_INVERSE 
>
>
>
> Do you really need LSD? 
>
>
>
> regards 
>
>
>
> Juerg Hutter 
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> Juerg Hutter                         Phone : ++41 44 635 4491 
>
> Institut für Chemie C                FAX   : ++41 44 635 6838 
>
> Universität Zürich                   E-mail: hut... at chem.uzh.ch 
>
> Winterthurerstrasse 190 
>
> CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland 
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
>
> -----cp... at googlegroups.com wrote: -----To: cp2k <cp... at googlegroups.com> 
>
> From: Amin 
>
> Sent by: cp... at googlegroups.com 
>
> Date: 03/13/2017 10:28AM 
>
> Subject: [CP2K:8806] very long calculation time 
>
>
>
> Hi all,I am trying to calculate the adsorption energy of co2 on Tio2 
> surface (with 192 atoms in my supercell). but the problem is that it takes 
> too long time to be calculated. I'm using 80 processors (2.8 GHz - each) 
> but as I set the wall time for 7 days, it reached that wall time and 
> calculations stopped. I have done similar calculations for fewer atoms 
> (48,98) in super cell but in those cases (even with fewer CPUs) it takes at 
> most 1 day to calculate everything. Because I'm a beginner in CP2K, I don't 
> have any idea weather this amount of time for calculation is reasonable. I 
> have attached critical parts of my input file. I will be grateful if 
> someone gives a comment regarding my question.- Any suggestion for 
> decreasing the calculation time with the same number of atoms is warmly 
> appreciated.. :) 
>
> &GLOBAL  PROJECT  Ch  RUN_TYPE GEO_OPT  PRINT_LEVEL LOW  
> EXTENDED_FFT_LENGTHS&END GLOBAL 
>
> &FORCE_EVAL  METHOD Quickstep       &DFT    BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME 
>  BASIS_MOLOPT    POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME  GTH_POTENTIALS    LSD    CHARGE 0    
> MULTIPLICITY 1    &MGRID        CUTOFF 800        REL_CUTOFF 60    &END 
> MGRID    &QS        METHOD GPW        EPS_DEFAULT 1.0E-12    &END QS    
> &POISSON        PERIODIC XYZ    &END POISSON    &SCF                        
>     SCF_GUESS ATOMIC      EPS_SCF 1.0E-6      MAX_SCF 100      &OT       
>  PRECONDITIONER FULL_ALL        MINIMIZER CG      &END OT      &OUTER_SCF   
>      MAX_SCF 20        EPS_SCF 1.0E-6      &END OUTER_SCF    &END SCF    
> &XC                  &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE      &END XC_FUNCTIONAL      
> &VDW_POTENTIAL        DISPERSION_FUNCTIONAL PAIR_POTENTIAL       
>  &PAIR_POTENTIAL                TYPE DFTD3(BJ)               
>  REFERENCE_FUNCTIONAL PBE                CALCULATE_C9_TERM .FALSE.         
>        PARAMETER_FILE_NAME dftd3.dat                R_CUTOFF 15.0       
>  &END PAIR_POTENTIAL      &END VDW_POTENTIAL    &END XC  &END DFT 
>
>   &SUBSYS    &CELL      ABC 15.138 15.138 30.0000      PERIODIC XYZ     
> &END CELL    &TOPOLOGY      COORD_FILE_FORMAT XYZ      COORD_FILE_NAME 
>  ./Anatase001-192.xyz    &END 
>
> &END FORCE_EVAL&MOTION        &GEO_OPT          OPTIMIZER BFGS         
>  MAX_FORCE 4.50000000E-004        &END        &CONSTRAINT         
>  &FIXED_ATOMS                LIST 0..95          &END FIXED_ATOMS       
>  &END CONSTRAINT&END MOTION 
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