BSE calculation stopped

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Re: BSE calculation stopped

Post by Daniele Varsano » Tue Feb 16, 2021 2:31 pm

Dear Ezekiel,
alpha it is not plotted because even if the system is 2D yambo cannot define the non periodic length of the cell needed for the refactor of alpha.
The condition is that there must be one cell unit vector _|_ to the 2D non periodic plane that must contain both the other two cell vectors.
Please see the warning in the report:

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[code] [WARNING]Non periodic geometry and unit cell are incompatible
[/code]

This is due because your A3 cell unit vector cell has small numbers n the first two component.

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Direct Lattice(DL) unit cell [iru  /  cc(a.u.)]
  A1 = 1.000000 -.1873E-6 -.3338E-7      5.940704 -.9638E-6 -.1429E-5
  A2 =-0.500000  1.000000 0.4477E-7     -2.970353  5.144801 0.1916E-5
  A3 =-.2374E-5 0.3449E-5  1.000000     -.1410E-4 0.1774E-4  42.79823
In order to have the alpha you should consider to repeat the calculation using A3=(0,0,1).
Or as the vector is "nearly" orthogonal, you can just multiply the eps spectrum for the correct factor, note they are proportional.

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Daniele
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Re: BSE calculation stopped

Post by ezekiel » Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:56 pm

Dear Daniele,
I repeated the calculation using A3=(0,0,1) and I have the expected output files including that of alpha. I thank you for your time and the fruitful discussions.
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Re: BSE calculation stopped

Post by Daniele Varsano » Wed Feb 17, 2021 2:02 pm

Dear Ezekiel,

Great it worked!
Don't hesitate to post in the forum in the future if you need clarifications.
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BSE calculation stopped

Post by ezekiel » Thu Jun 16, 2022 10:46 am

Hi,
I ran a BSE calculation on Marconi HPC. The calculation stopped with no output. My log file is attached. Please assist me on the way forward. Thank you.

Ezekiel Oyeniyi
University of Ibadan
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Re: BSE calculation stopped

Post by Daniele Varsano » Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:29 pm

Dear Ezekiel,
it is not easy to spot the problem. It could be a memory issue.
Do you have any error messages from the queue system?
Another option would be to compile the code using the --enable-memory-profile option in the configure, in this way Yambo print the allocated memory before crashing.
Anyway, it seems the BS kernel has been computed (and hopefully stored), can you try to restart your calculation?
I've heard from some users having a similar problem in M100 (crashing when starting the solver section) that was solved by splitting the calculations into two runs: a first run to build the kernel (without bss runlevel) and a following run for the solver.
You can also try if this solve the problem.

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Re: BSE calculation stopped

Post by ezekiel » Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:54 pm

Dear Daniele,
This is the message from the queue system:
OMP_NUM_THREADS=8
[r211n12:19477] *** Process received signal ***
[r211n12:19477] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
[r211n12:19477] Signal code: (3)
[r211n12:19477] Failing at address: 0xffffffff8ded26a0
[r211n12:19477] [ 0] [r211n12:19474] *** Process received signal ***
[r211n12:19474] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
[r211n12:19474] Signal code: (3)
[r211n12:19474] Failing at address: 0xffffffffa3eaec60
[r211n12:19474] [ 0] linux-vdso64.so.1(__kernel_sigtramp_rt64+0x0)[0x2000000504d8]
[r211n12:19474] [ 1] yambo[0x1021d5e4]
[r211n12:19474] linux-vdso64.so.1(__kernel_sigtramp_rt64+0x0)[0x2000000504d8]
[r211n12:19477] [ 1] yambo[0x1021d5e4]
[r211n12:19477] [ 2] yambo[0x1021aee0]
[r211n12:19477] [ 3] yambo[0x1021aa40]
[r211n12:19477] [ 4] yambo[0x1020b464]
[r211n12:19477] [ 5] [ 2] yambo[0x1021aee0]
[r211n12:19474] [ 3] yambo[0x1021aa40]
[r211n12:19474] [ 4] yambo[0x1020b464]
yambo[0x10141814]
[r211n12:19477] [ 6] yambo[0x1002f650]
[r211n12:19477] [ 7] yambo[0x1002717c]
[r211n12:19477] [ 8] yambo[0x10010a9c]
[r211n12:19477] [ 9] yambo[0x1000d2a4]
[r211n12:19477] [10] yambo[0x102c8ec0]
[r211n12:19477] [11] yambo[0x1000ca90]
[r211n12:19477] [12] /lib64/power9/libc.so.6(+0x241f8)[0x2000254741f8]
[r211n12:19477] [13] /lib64/power9/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xb4)[0x2000254743e4]
[r211n12:19477] *** End of error message ***
[r211n12:19474] [ 5] yambo[0x10141814]
[r211n12:19474] [ 6] yambo[0x1002f650]
[r211n12:19474] [ 7] yambo[0x1002717c]
[r211n12:19474] [ 8] yambo[0x10010a9c]
[r211n12:19474] [ 9] yambo[0x1000d2a4]
[r211n12:19474] [10] yambo[0x102c8ec0]
[r246n20:20121] *** End of error message ***
yambo[0x1002717c]
[r214n12:117133] [10] yambo[0x10010a9c]
[r214n12:117133] [11] yambo[0x1000d2a4]
[r214n12:117133] [12] yambo[0x102c8ec0]
[r214n12:117133] [13] yambo[0x1000ca90]
[r214n12:117133] [14] /lib64/power9/libc.so.6(+0x241f8)[0x2000254741f8]
[r214n12:117133] [15] /lib64/power9/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xb4)[0x2000254743e4]
[r214n12:117133] *** End of error message ***
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Primary job terminated normally, but 1 process returned
a non-zero exit code. Per user-direction, the job has been aborted.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mpirun noticed that process rank 28 with PID 108240 on node r255n10 exited on signal 11 (Segmentation fault).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
5 total processes killed (some possibly by mpirun during cleanup)

[r211n12:19474] [11] yambo[0x1000ca90]
[r211n12:19474] [12] /lib64/power9/libc.so.6(+0x241f8)[0x2000254741f8]
[r211n12:19474] [13] /lib64/power9/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xb4)[0x2000254743e4]
[r211n12:19474] *** End of error message ***
[r238n20:50123] *** Process received signal ***
[r238n20:50123] Signal: Segmentation fault (11)
Oyeniyi Ezekiel,
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University of Ibadan, Nigeria

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BSE: Screening calculation stopped

Post by ezekiel » Wed Jul 20, 2022 12:44 pm

Hi,
I'm doing a BSE calculation. The screening calculation suddenly stopped. Please, assist me in resolving this issue. I have attached the LOG file and screening report file. Thank you

Dr Oyeniyi Ezekiel
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University of Ibadan,
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Re: BSE calculation stopped

Post by Daniele Varsano » Wed Jul 20, 2022 1:15 pm

Dear Ezekiel,

it is possible you are experiencing a memory problem, you can try to parallelize over bands in order to distribute the memory of the wfs among processors adding explicit parallelization strategy in the input file:

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X_and_IO_CPU= "1 1 1 12 4"                 
X_and_IO_ROLEs= "q g k c v"       
Best,
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Re: BSE calculation stopped

Post by ezekiel » Thu Jul 21, 2022 9:25 am

Dear Daniele,
Thank you for your prompt response. But now, I have my Kernel calculation also stopped. I am running the calculation on the Marconi hpc. Log file and Kernel calculation file are attached. Pls assist.

Thank you

Ezekiel Oyeniyi
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Re: BSE calculation stopped

Post by Daniele Varsano » Thu Jul 21, 2022 6:14 pm

Dear Ezekiel,
can you also post your input file?

Daniele
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