<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial">By the way, do you want to calculate the FCC structure (diamond structure)? If so, your model/structure is definitely wrong~<br>For FCC, the primitive cell contains two atoms, one at (0,0,0), another at (1/4,1/4,1/4), and the cell vectors should be as you used.<br><br><div>--<br>GAO Zhe<br>CMC Lab, Materials Science &amp; Engineering Department,<br>Seoul National University, South Korea<br>        
&nbsp;</div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard"></div><br>At 2012-07-18 16:41:23,"bamidele&nbsp;ibrahim"&nbsp;&lt;bamideleibrahim@yahoo.com&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dear GAO,</span></div><div><span>&nbsp; Thanks for the explanation, i have tried it , it produced the same result.<br></span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Adetunji Bamidele Ibrahim(PhD Student)<br>Department of physics,University of Agriculture,<br>Abeokuta, Ogun State,Nigeria.</div><div><br></div>  <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1">  <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> GAO Zhe &lt;<a href="mailto:flux_ray12@163.com">flux_ray12@163.com</a>&gt;<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> PWSCF Forum &lt;<a href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</a>&gt; <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:30 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Pw_forum] scf calculation crashed for "diagonalization (ZHEGV*) failed".<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv68669835"><div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial;">If there is no model/structure problem, then you can try to set <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);">diagonalization='cg'</span> in<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);"> &amp;electrons</span> namelist, although this method will decrease the calculation speed due to the poor parallel performance.<br><br><div>--<br>GAO Zhe<br>CMC Lab, Materials Science &amp; Engineering Department,<br>Seoul National University, South Korea<br>        
&nbsp;</div><div id="yiv68669835divNeteaseMailCard"></div><br>At 2012-07-18 13:30:15,"bamidele&nbsp;ibrahim"&nbsp;&lt;<a href="mailto:bamideleibrahim@yahoo.com">bamideleibrahim@yahoo.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote id="yiv68669835isReplyContent" style="PADDING-LEFT:1ex;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span>Dear all,</span></div><div><span>&nbsp; I am running scf calculation&nbsp; and relax with the input file below: </span></div><br>&amp;control<br>&nbsp; calculation = 'relax',<br>&nbsp; prefix='MgSe'<br>&nbsp; pseudo_dir='/home/adetunji/espresso-4.3/pslibrary.0.2.5/pz/PSEUDOPOTENTIALS',<br>&nbsp; outdir='./',<br>/<br>&amp;system<br>&nbsp; ibrav=0,<br>&nbsp; nat=8, <br>&nbsp; celldm(1)= 11.32, <br>&nbsp; ntyp=2, <br>&nbsp; ecutwfc = 50.0,<br>/<br>&amp;electrons<br>&nbsp;mixing_beta = 0.9<br>&nbsp;conv_thr = 1.0d-9<br>/<br>&amp;ions<br>ion_dynamics
 ='bfgs'<br>/<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>Mg 24.305&nbsp; Mg.pz-n-kjpaw.UPF<br>Se 78.963&nbsp; Se.pz-n-kjpaw.UPF<br>CELL_PARAMETERS <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.000 0.49 0.49<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.49&nbsp; 0.000 0.49 <br>&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.49 0.49 0.000<br><br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS<br>Mg 0.00000000&nbsp;
 0.00000000&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.00000000<br>Mg 0.00000000&nbsp; 0.50000000&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.50000000<br>Mg 0.50000000&nbsp; 0.00000000&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.50000000<br>Mg 0.50000000&nbsp; 0.50000000&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.00000000<br>Se 0.25000000&nbsp; 0.25000000&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.25000000<br>Se 0.75000000&nbsp; 0.75000000&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.25000000<br>Se 0.75000000&nbsp; 0.25000000&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.75000000<br>Se 0.25000000&nbsp; 0.75000000&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.75000000<br><br>K_POINTS (automatic)<br>6 6 6&nbsp; 1 1 1<br><br>In both cases, it crashes and produces this error:<br><br>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; from cdiaghg : error #&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 42<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; diagonalization (ZHEGV*) failed<br>&nbsp;%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>Can anybody in the house tell me what i have done
 wrong.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br><div>Adetunji Bamidele Ibrahim(PhD Student)<br>Department of physics,University of Agriculture,<br>Abeokuta, Ogun State,Nigeria.</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><span title="neteasefooter"><span id="yiv68669835netease_mail_footer"></span></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Pw_forum mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Pw_forum@pwscf.org" href="mailto:Pw_forum@pwscf.org">Pw_forum@pwscf.org</a><br><a href="http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum" target="_blank">http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum</a><br><br><br> </div> </div>  </div></blockquote></div><br><br><span title="neteasefooter"><span id="netease_mail_footer"></span></span>