[Pw_forum] Fw: relax is too slow

[vega]

Dear sir,

Thank you for your responding.

Could you tell me what is the most important thing to judge whether the accuracy of a numerical calculation is enough.
The energy? force? atomic coordinates? or any other things?

vega

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Vega Lew (weijia liu)
PH.D Candidate in Chemical Engineering
State Key Laboratory of Materials-oriented Chemical Engineering
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Nanjing University of Technology, 210009, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China


From: Stefano Baroni 
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:04 PM
To: PWSCF Forum 
Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Fw: relax is too slow


the same way as you would choose any other parameter controlling the accuracy of a numerical calculation. try a value; try a few others corresponding to increasing accuracy, and stop when you see that the increase in the accuracy is not worth the extra workload. never forget to use common sense (whenever it is available).  


SB


On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:36 AM, vega wrote:


  Dear sir

    vega wrote:



      As far as I tested, the energy would be within 1% for large supercells,

      but the coordinates of several atoms may differ 200%.



    doesn't make sense


  could you tell me more about how to choose the k point mesh?

  vega
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  Vega Lew (weijia liu)
  PH.D Candidate in Chemical Engineering
  State Key Laboratory of Materials-oriented Chemical Engineering
  College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  Nanjing University of Technology, 210009, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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  Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:27 PM
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  Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Fw: relax is too slow



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