[CPMD-list] floating point exception & unconverged geometry

Masroor Ahmad masroor at chemie.uni-siegen.de
Thu Oct 3 15:06:13 CEST 2002


Hi all,
I'm having problem with version 3.5.3 binary compiled on cray-t3e.With 
option CONJUGATE GRADIENTS IONS,optimization of an isolated system 
aborts with floating point exception.Some initial lines of input 
alongwith final error messages are reproduced here.
And Second may somebody please guide me as to how to hatch a strategy in 
CPMD to converge geometry of isolated system.Because in my case by any 
means geometry refuses to converge beyond a gradinet of approximately 
10-3,after which successive iterations just go on infinitely without any 
improvement in geometry.I want to know as to what actually affects in 
CPMD,the convergence or non-convergence of geometry ogf isolated systems.
Thanks in Advance
With regards
Masroor Ahmad
Universität Siegen


 THE INPUT FILE IS:                                   vo2oh2_ge_3
 THIS JOB RUNS ON:                                         zam003
 THE CURRENT DIRECTORY IS:
                                      /usr_HLRZ/hbi10/hbi103/cpmd
 THE TEMPORARY DIRECTORY IS:
                                      /usr_HLRZ/hbi10/hbi103/cpmd
 THE PROCESS ID IS:                                         89042
 THE JOB WAS SUBMITTED BY:                                 hbi103


 OPTIMIZATION OF IONIC POSITIONS

 PATH TO THE RESTART FILES:                                    ./
 RESTART WITH OLD ORBITALS
 RESTART WITH OLD ION POSITIONS
 GRAM-SCHMIDT ORTHOGONALIZATION
 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STEPS:                             10000 STEPS
 PRINT INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY                     10001 STEPS
 STORE INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY                     10001 STEPS
 STORE INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY     10001 SELF-CONSISTENT STEPS
 NUMBER OF DISTINCT RESTART FILES:                              1
 TEMPERATURE IS CALCULATED ASSUMING EXTENDED BULK BEHAVIOR
 FICTITIOUS ELECTRON MASS:                               400.0000
 TIME STEP:                                                5.0000
 CONVERGENCE CRITERIA FOR WAVEFUNCTION OPTIMIZATION:   1.0000E-05
 WAVEFUNCTION OPTIMIZATION BY PRECONDITIONED DIIS
 THRESHOLD FOR THE WF-HESSIAN IS                           0.5000
 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF VECTORS RETAINED FOR DIIS:                  10
                                                                                                           
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 THE TEMPORARY DIRECTORY IS:
                                
 THE PROCESS ID IS:                                         89042
 THE JOB WAS SUBMITTED BY:                                 hbi103


 OPTIMIZATION OF IONIC POSITIONS

 PATH TO THE RESTART FILES:                                    ./
 RESTART WITH OLD ORBITALS
 RESTART WITH OLD ION POSITIONS
 GRAM-SCHMIDT ORTHOGONALIZATION
 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STEPS:                             10000 STEPS
 PRINT INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY                     10001 STEPS
 STORE INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY                     10001 STEPS
 STORE INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY     10001 SELF-CONSISTENT STEPS
 NUMBER OF DISTINCT RESTART FILES:                              1
 TEMPERATURE IS CALCULATED ASSUMING EXTENDED BULK BEHAVIOR
 FICTITIOUS ELECTRON MASS:                               400.0000
 TIME STEP:                                                5.0000
 CONVERGENCE CRITERIA FOR WAVEFUNCTION OPTIMIZATION:   1.0000E-05
 WAVEFUNCTION OPTIMIZATION BY PRECONDITIONED DIIS
 THRESHOLD FOR THE WF-HESSIAN IS                           0.5000
 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF VECTORS RETAINED FOR DIIS:                  10
    
                                                                                                           
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 FULL ELECTRONIC GRADIENT IS USED
 CONVERGENCE CRITERIA FOR GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION:     5.000000E-04
 GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION BY CONJUGATE GRADIENT
 EMPIRICAL INITIAL HESSIAN (DISCO PARAMETRISATION)
 SPLINE INTERPOLATION IN G-SPACE FOR PSEUDOPOTENTIAL FUNCTIONS
    NUMBER OF SPLINE POINTS:                                  501

 EXCHANGE CORRELATION FUNCTIONALS
    LDA EXCHANGE:                        SLATER (ALPHA = 0.66667)
    LDA CORRELATION:                              PERDEW & ZUNGER
       [J.P. PERDEW AND A ZUNGER, PRB 23 5048 (1981)]

 ***     DETSP|   CURRENT HEAP LENGTH               98 KWords ***

 >>>>>>>> CENTER OF MASS HAS BEEN MOVED TO CENTER OF BOX <<<<<<<<


 ***************************** ATOMS ****************************
   NR   TYPE        X(bohr)        Y(bohr)        Z(bohr)     MBL
    1      C       5.146604      10.699854       8.668279       3
    2      C       2.439328       7.494208       8.606200       3
    3      C       4.877387       6.629337       8.614501       3
    4      N       2.636183      10.108638       8.641351       3
    5      N       6.517312       8.638552       8.653203       3
    6      O      10.109395      12.059025       8.630318       3
    7      O      10.688439       6.572043       6.323184       3
    8      O      10.632381       6.933133      11.404820       3
    9      O      14.398624       9.409931       8.570936       3
   10      H       5.949931      12.573831       8.693617       3
   11      H       0.641957       6.539167       8.579723       3
   12      H       5.578584       4.717955       8.592834       3
   13      H       1.196612      11.350629       8.644801       3
   14      H      11.733532      12.868453       8.515440       3
   15      H      15.112509       8.651960       7.083971       3
   16      V      10.929648       8.460442       8.753126       3
 ****************************************************************



 NUMBER OF STATES:                                             29
 NUMBER OF ELECTRONS:                                    58.00000
 CHARGE:                                                 -1.00000
                                                                                                           
84,108         5%

 CHARGE:                                                 -1.00000
 ELECTRON TEMPERATURE(KELVIN):                            0.00000
 OCCUPATION
  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0
  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0
  2.0  2.0  2.0

   Goedecker/Hartwigsen s ? PP

   Goedecker/Hartwigsen s ? PP

   Goedecker/Hartwigsen s ? PP

   Goedecker/Hartwigsen s ? PP

   Goedecker/Hartwigsen s ? PP

 ****************************************************************
 *   ATOM       MASS   RAGGIO NLCC              PSEUDOPOTENTIAL *
 *      C    12.0112   1.2000   NO   GOEDECKER      S  NONLOCAL *
 *                                                  P  NONLOCAL *
 *                                                  D     LOCAL *
 *      N    14.0067   1.2000   NO   GOEDECKER      S  NONLOCAL *
                                                                                                           
189,2          8%
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SIGNAL: Floating point exception (invalid floating point operation)

 Beginning of Traceback (PE 0):
  Interrupt at address 0x8006a62ac in routine 'SDION'.
  Called from line 582 (address 0x8006561e0) in routine 'RGMOPT'.
  Called from line 99 (address 0x80063e73c) in routine 'GMOPTS'.
  Called from line 120 (address 0x800003aa8) in routine 'CPMD'.
  Called from line 3 (address 0x8000016dc) in routine 'CPMD_STUTTGART'.
  Called from line 495 (address 0x800000ce8) in routine '$START$'.
 End of Traceback.
cpmd[5]: 89042 Floating exception(coredump)




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