Cut-off problrm

simin pahlavi simin.... at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 17:38:35 UTC 2018


Also for ngrid 1 the output is:
shouldn't we not see any changes less than 10e-7 in energy with changing 
cutoff?
I relay appreciate any help here

  50.0000000000  -230.3665655634           0
 100.0000000000  -231.5201721491          0
 150.0000000000  -231.6333696011           0
 200.0000000000 -231.6954662742           0
 250.0000000000  -231.7211472374          0
 300.0000000000  -231.7441677975          0
 350.0000000000 -231.7546966069           0
 400.0000000000  -231.7608341845          0
 450.0000000000  -231.7712553463           0
 500.0000000000  -231.7712553463           0
 550.0000000000  -231.7762288308           0
 600.0000000000  -231.7833659880            0

On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 6:55:33 PM UTC+2, simin pahlavi wrote:
>
>
> Dear Matteu,
> Thank you very much for your quick answer,
> I am not sure what did you mean by " Your set up is converged at the 
> lowest setting you report",
>  because after first few step with convergence I had a different energy in 
> next cutoffs. 
> but the result for lower cutoff is  as the following.
> Can I ask where is the suitable cutoff is now? and why you say so?
>
>  Grid cutoff vs total energy
> # Date: Mon Apr 23 18:44:42 CEST 2018
> # PWD: /u/nsaf/JOBS/Ad-Ml.1/Cutoff-test
> # REL_CUTOFF = 60
> # Cutoff (Ry) | Total Energy (Ha) | NG on grid 1 | NG on grid 2 | NG on 
> grid 3 | NG on grid 4
>   50.0                   -230.3665656028      88679   13322      48       0
>  100.0                  -231.5201721496       69162   25725    7162       0
>  150.0                   231.6333696411       66211   22468   13322      48
>  200.0                  -231.6954662441       48271   28520   25210      48
>  250.0                  -231.7211472373       45554   27891   28476     128
>  300.0                  -231.7441677949       43072   26090   25725    7162
>  350.0                  -231.7546966111       43072   23982   22834   12161
>  400.0                   -231.7608341848      40587   25752   23501   12209
>  450.0                   -231.7712553838       36594   29617   22468  
>  13370
>  500.0                   -231.7712553419        31682   21399   35598  
>  13370
>  550.0                   -231.7762288293       24651   26716   28756  
>  21926
>  600.0                   -231.7833659579        24651   23620   28520  
>  25258
>
> with best regards
> Simin
>
> On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 2:57:15 PM UTC+2, Matt W wrote:
>>
>> To see really clean convergence you need to turn off multigrids (set 
>> ngrids 1).
>>
>> Your set up is converged at the lowest setting you report.
>>
>> We need a new tutorial on how to get happy pw settings.
>>
>> On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 11:38:03 AM UTC+1, simin pahlavi wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear aal,
>>> Hello. 
>>> I am trying to find a suitable cutoff for my DFT calculation on 
>>> hydrocarbons according to the cp2k manual 
>>> https://www.cp2k.org/howto:converging_cutoff. I appriciate any help in 
>>> advance.
>>> The results never converge  and the calculated output for  REL_CUTOFF = 
>>> 60, is as following:
>>>   
>>> # Grid cutoff vs total energy
>>> # Date: Fri Apr 20 20:39:04 CEST 2018
>>> # PWD: /u/nsaf/JOBS/Ad-Ml.1/Cutoff-test
>>> # REL_CUTOFF = 60
>>> # Cutoff (Ry) | Total Energy (Ha) | NG on grid 1 | NG on grid 2 | NG on 
>>> grid 3 | NG on grid 4
>>>  800.0                   -231.7994673423      73445   28476     128      
>>>  0
>>>  850.0                   -231.7994673423       73445   28476     128    
>>>    0
>>>  900.0                   -231.8023753152       69162   25725    7162    
>>>    0
>>>  950.0                   -231.8023753152       69162   25725    7162    
>>>    0
>>> 1000.0                  -231.8065368280       69162   25725    7162      
>>>  0
>>> 1050.0                  -231.8065368280       69162   25725    7162      
>>>  0
>>> 1100.0                  -231.8065368280       67054   27833    7162      
>>>  0
>>> 1150.0                  -231.8129239556        67054   22834   12161    
>>>    0
>>> 1200.0                  -231.8129239556        67054   22834   12161    
>>>    0
>>> 1250.0                  -231.8129239556        67054   22834   12161    
>>>    0
>>> 1300.0                  -231.8129239556        66339   23501   12209    
>>>    0
>>> 1350.0                  -231.8129239556        66339   23501   12161    
>>>   48
>>> 1400.0                  -231.8148206637        66259   22420   13322    
>>>   48
>>> 1450.0                  -231.8148206637       66211   22468   13322      
>>> 48
>>> 1500.0                  -231.8148206637        66211   22468   13322    
>>>   48
>>> 1550.0                  -231.8158559068        63323   25356   13322    
>>>   48
>>> 1600.0                  -231.8175292623        57217   31462   13322    
>>>   48
>>>
>>> ********************************************************************************
>>> Also my input file is :
>>>
>>> ******************************************************************************
>>> &GLOBAL
>>>  PRINT_LEVEL MEDIUM
>>> # WALLTIME 36:00:00  # changed
>>>  PROJECT cuttoff-test
>>>  RUN_TYPE ENERGY
>>>  SEED 300
>>> &END GLOBAL
>>>
>>>
>>> &FORCE_EVAL
>>>  METHOD Quickstep
>>>  &DFT
>>>   BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME ../data/BASIS_MOLOPT
>>>   POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME ../data/GTH_POTENTIALS
>>>     CHARGE 0
>>>     MULTIPLICITY 1
>>>     &MGRID
>>>   NGRIDS 4
>>>   CUTOFF LT_cutoff
>>>   REL_CUTOFF LT_rel_cutoff
>>>     &END
>>>    &QS
>>>       EPS_DEFAULT 1.0E-10
>>>       WF_INTERPOLATION PS
>>>       EXTRAPOLATION_ORDER 3
>>>       METHOD GPW
>>>     &END
>>>
>>>   &SCF
>>>    SCF_GUESS ATOMIC
>>>    EPS_SCF 5.e-7
>>>    MAX_SCF 1
>>>       &OT
>>>         MINIMIZER DIIS
>>>       &END OT
>>>    &OUTER_SCF
>>>     TYPE NONE
>>>     OPTIMIZER NONE
>>>     EPS_SCF 5.0E-7  
>>>     MAX_SCF 1
>>>    &END OUTER_SCF 
>>>   &END SCF
>>>
>>>   &XC
>>>    &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE
>>>    &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
>>>    &XC_GRID
>>>     XC_SMOOTH_RHO NN50
>>>     XC_DERIV NN50_SMOOTH
>>>    &END XC_GRID
>>>    &VDW_POTENTIAL 
>>>     DISPERSION_FUNCTIONAL PAIR_POTENTIAL
>>>     &PAIR_POTENTIAL
>>>      TYPE DFTD3
>>>      PARAMETER_FILE_NAME ../data/dftd3.dat
>>>      REFERENCE_FUNCTIONAL PBE
>>>      CALCULATE_C9_TERM TRUE
>>>      REFERENCE_C9_TERM TRUE
>>>      LONG_RANGE_CORRECTION TRUE
>>>      VERBOSE_OUTPUT TRUE
>>>      R_CUTOFF 15.0
>>>     &END PAIR_POTENTIAL 
>>>    &END VDW_POTENTIAL
>>>   &END XC
>>>  &END DFT
>>>
>>>  &SUBSYS
>>>   &CELL
>>>    ABC 16.0 16.0 16.0
>>>    PERIODIC XYZ
>>>   &END CELL
>>>
>>>     &KIND H
>>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH-q1
>>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q1
>>>     &END
>>>
>>>     &KIND C
>>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH-q4
>>>      POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q4
>>>     &END KIND
>>>
>>>
>>>     &TOPOLOGY
>>>       COORDINATE XYZ
>>>       COORD_FILE_NAME ../data/structure 
>>>       CONNECTIVITY OFF
>>>     &END TOPOLOGY
>>>  &END SUBSYS
>>> &END FORCE_EVAL
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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