GW calculation error

Concerns issues with computing quasiparticle corrections to the DFT eigenvalues - i.e., the self-energy within the GW approximation (-g n), or considering the Hartree-Fock exchange only (-x)

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Akash
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GW calculation error

Post by Akash » Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:13 pm

Dear Developers,

I am trying to compute the GW band structure for Bilayer Graphene containing 288 electrons. My machine contains 250 GB of memory. But, the problem is yambo is running with full memory usage, I have reduced my bands range also, even then the code is stopping without any error. Please suggest me some solution.

I have attached input and output files.
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Akash Saxena
Department of Scientific Computing, Modelling & Simulation
SavitriBai Phule Pune University, India.

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Re: GW calculation error

Post by Daniele Varsano » Tue Oct 03, 2023 7:57 am

Dear Akash,

it could be useful to have a look at the log files, in particular if the code has been compiled using the flag --enable-memory-profile .
Anyway, you can try to split your calculation in different runs, e.g.:

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%QPkrange                      # # [GW] QP generalized Kpoint/Band indices
1|20|93|95|
%
next

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%QPkrange                      # # [GW] QP generalized Kpoint/Band indices
1|20|96|99|
%
and then merge the QP databases using ypp or yambo-py.

You can also try to optimize the parallelization strategy setting distributing the load among processor adding in the input file:

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SE_CPU= " 1 1 24"       # [PARALLEL] CPUs for each role
SE_ROLEs= "q qp b"         # [PARALLEL] CPUs roles (q,qp,b)
SE_Threads=  0    
Best,
Daniele
Dr. Daniele Varsano
S3-CNR Institute of Nanoscience and MaX Center, Italy
MaX - Materials design at the Exascale
http://www.nano.cnr.it
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Akash
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Re: GW calculation error

Post by Akash » Tue Oct 03, 2023 8:18 am

Dear Danele,

Thank you for suggesting. I will try to work out your suggestion.

Regards
Akash Saxena
Department of Scientific Computing, Modelling & Simulation
SavitriBai Phule Pune University, India.

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