Hi Neuman, <div><br /></div><div>The SCF of the MD run did not even start, according to the output you posted. This is not a convergence problem.</div><div>Most probably this is a memory issue, but it is hard to tell with these information. </div><div>Regards</div><div>Marcella</div><div><br /></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 5:25:07 PM UTC+2 hafeez...@gmail.com wrote:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Dear CP2K developers and group, <br></div><div><br></div><div>I have a system of two ions (Na+ and Cl-) in water, the total number of atoms are ~2,500. I run this system using 48 cpu nodes and 256g of memory. I've constructed the basis sets and pseudopotentials for the ions myself. My goal is to run an MD simulation. When I run the system for energy and forces the SCF converges very well simply using the OT setup with (mostly) default setting. When I switch to MD, I get an segmentation fault error.</div><div><br></div><div>The MD <span><span>ENSEMBLE</span></span><em><span><span> </span></span></em>I use is NVT with TIMESTEP of 0.5 fs, and <span><span>TEMPERATURE</span></span><em><span><span> </span></span></em><span><span>of 300. </span></span>I have tried changing the ENERGY_GAP to 0.1, choosing <span><span>MINIMIZER</span></span><em><span><span> </span></span></em><span><span>as CG and </span></span><span><span>LINESEARCH</span></span><em><span><span> </span></span></em><span><span>as GOLD in OT settings, but system either doesn't converge or I get the core dump error (</span></span>Segmentation fault - invalid memory reference<span><span>). </span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span>I was wondering how does the system converges with </span></span>ENERGY_FORCE and not with MD - is it that the system is not duly optimized? Or choice of my basis set/pseudopotentials? I'm attaching the input script files for the MD I tried and the output log.</div><div><br></div><div>Any help or guidance will be much appreciated. Thank you in advance. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Nauman</div></blockquote></div>
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