[CP2K-user] [CP2K:15476] some issues with ab initio MD with xTB

am...@gmail.com amin.... at gmail.com
Sat May 29 11:51:09 UTC 2021


many thanks prof. Hutter, that solved the issue.
About the initial structure, yes you are right. It was actually the initial 
structure for a box of water which I just manually changed the element tags 
to CO2 to see are there element related issues or not. thanks for noticing 
that.
Best regards,
Amin

On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 11:27:50 AM UTC+2 jgh wrote:

> Hi
>
> the increase in time is expected as your system becomes dominated
> by the Ewald sum which scales like a^3 log(a) where a is the
> size of your box. So this is definitely not an exponential increase.
>
> If you only want to calculate a set of isolated molecules in a 
> large box, I would not use Ewald.
>
> Are you sure your geometry is correct? SCF is not converging for me.
>
> regards
>
> Juerg Hutter 
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> Thanks so much prof. Hutter for your reply.
> Attached, I provide an example. In the zip file there are two input 
> scripts main_1.inp and main_2.inp which both run MD simulation with 
> interactions evaluated by xTB for a simulation box containing 8 CO2 
> molecules. 
> Everything is the same for the two scripts except the size of the 
> simulation box which in main_2 is ca 2.5 times larger in each direction. 
> For these two scripts, each MD step took on my system with 32 cores roughly 
> 0.64 and 11 s, respectively which seems kind of unusual to me.
> I am wondering first of all, is it normal that for larger cells which 
> contain exact same particles and default cut-off computations become so 
> slower and are there some ways to avoid it, e.g. if someone need to study a 
> very dilute gas state?
> Thanks in advance and best regards,
> Amin
>
> On Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 4:46:35 PM UTC+2 jgh wrote:
> Hi 
>
> without additional information you will not get any helpful replies. 
>
> regards 
>
> Juerg Hutter 
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> Date: 05/26/2021 09:38AM 
> Subject: [CP2K:15464] some issues with ab initio MD with xTB 
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>
> Hi everyone, 
> I am trying to do some ab initio MD simulation with xTB to evaluate the 
> interatomic interactions. 
> For a cubic cell with periodic boundary condition, for the same number of 
> particles, as I reduce the number density (for the same number of particles 
> only increasing the box size), the simulation time exponentially increases. 
> Does any one have any idea? 
> Best regards, 
> Amin 
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