Try to find out if the problem you have is related to the usage of local disks as scratch directories. It is quite tricky, because you have no control on which filesystem the various pieces are written to. Paolo --- Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Physics, University of Udine via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222