My Community

Hi

On our expanse cluster ( https://www.sdsc.edu/systems/expanse/user_guide.html ) we have a user who was running the attached MD job using machine learning force fields with vasp 6.5.0 on 64 processors on a single node.

I was testing it for him and found that after 4 hours , not even a single SCF iteration was completed.

Is he doing something wrong?

Attached is a tgz file containing the input, standard output and OUTCAR files.

Thanks,

Jerry

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for reaching out. I cannot see any obvious fault with the calculation. In fact, I have run it on three different compute nodes with different hardware and the SCF cycles are run relatively quickly.

Could it maybe be an issue with buffering, so that the SCF cycles are computed but not yet written to the output? You could check with a smaller calculation (fewer atoms in the supercell) and see if the calculation finishes. Do regular DFT calculations run without issue?