[DFTB-Plus-User] Max Number of Atoms

Benjamin Hourahine benjamin.hourahine at strath.ac.uk
Tue Oct 7 00:26:16 CEST 2008


Hello Marcelo,

I'll need some more information to give an accurate answer, but
if I assume all of the atoms have an SP basis, you have SCC 
turned on, are using molecular boundary conditions (not periodic),
no spin polarization, and the 'standard' or 'relatively robust' 
choice of eigensolvers then I'd estimate your memory requirements
at about 17 Gb for that system.

If you use the default eigensolver (divide and conqer) this would rise
to a peak of about 28 Gb when it requires workspace. Similarly, changing
any of the above calculational conditions could also modify the memory use.

This suggests you are running out of memory. What exactly is the 
'unexpected error'?

Cheers

Ben

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Subject: [DFTB-Plus-User] Max Number of Atoms
 
Hello all DFTB+ users,

I`d like to know what is the maximum number of atoms that DFTB+ can carry on
calculation for a molecule. I`m trying to compute approx. 8,000 atoms and
I`m having unexpected error during the first SCC cycle. I`m trying to run
this job under 8 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz with 16Gb of RAM.

Thank you in advance,

Marcelo Zimmer

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