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Hi, we have been having problems building and running NWChem with the Intel compilers (version 6.0, as well as 5.1.1 and 5.1). There is usually no problem compiling NWChem, and we can usually run a small calculation such as the one below:
echo
start h2o
title "H2O"
charge 0
geometry
O 0.000000 0.000000 0.116577
H 0.000000 0.769424 -0.466309
H 0.000000 -0.769424 -0.466309
end
basis spherical
H library aug-cc-pVDZ
O library aug-cc-pVDZ
end
dft
xc becke88 perdew86
mult 1
end
task dft
However, as soon as we try to run a larger calculation, the job will fail. There isn't much information to see what's going on, but the error message can be:

mpiexec: Warning: task 0 died with signal 11 (Segmentation fault).

or

rank 0 in job 5 computea-01_34827 caused collective abort of all ranks
 exit status of rank 0: killed by signal 9

One is with MPICH and the other with Intel MPI. We used Intel compilers version 11.1 on RHEL/CentOS 5.4 or 5.5.

If more information is needed to find out what's going, I will be glad to provide them.

Thank you very much!

Shenggang.

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Hi Shenggang,

Can you send me the full output of the failed calculation, please? Usually there is something in the output that suggests what the cause of the trouble is. However, it may not always appear in the most obvious place. So I would like to be able to take a look for myself.

Best wishes,

   Huub van Dam

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Thank you very much for your reply. I can't post my output, but you can download them from the following links:

http://dixon.chem.ua.edu/sli/wo3.1a1.c3v.tddft.b3lyp.ad.nw
http://dixon.chem.ua.edu/sli/wo3.1a1.c3v.tddft.b3lyp.ad.nwout
http://dixon.chem.ua.edu/sli/wo3.1a1.c3v.tddft.b3lyp.ad.err

Please let me know if you need more information.

Shenggang.

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This is the same issue as in another posting here. It seems like a compiler issue with Intel 11, as it works when compiled with GNU (gfortran I assume). Asked Shenggang if there is another version of the Intel compiler available.

Bert

Quote:Shenggangli Jun 14th 7:27 am
Thank you very much for your reply. I can't post my output, but you can download them from the following links:

http://dixon.chem.ua.edu/sli/wo3.1a1.c3v.tddft.b3lyp.ad.nw
http://dixon.chem.ua.edu/sli/wo3.1a1.c3v.tddft.b3lyp.ad.nwout
http://dixon.chem.ua.edu/sli/wo3.1a1.c3v.tddft.b3lyp.ad.err

Please let me know if you need more information.

Shenggang.

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I think Dr. van Dam is referring to my numerous postings concerning the trouble I had using Intel compilers.

My solution was to use gfortran which is a part of gcc. Note that I am using the most recent version 4.6. I also had run into memory problems using MPICH1. Simply using MPICH2 fixed those problems.

Let me know if this helps.

Also, be sure to run the script that automatically sets your memory to the correct value. I'll bet your system has more than 400MB per core.

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On one of the system, the MPI coming with the system was not built with gfortran but g77. On the other system, I am using the Intel MPI library, so I am not sure I can use gfortran in place of ifort.

It could be due to a problem with MPICH1, but the Intel MPI library is MPICH2, and the problem persists.

Memory shouldn't be a problem, as this DFT job actually use very little memory.

Quote: Jul 23rd 12:17 am
I think Dr. van Dam is referring to my numerous postings concerning the trouble I had using Intel compilers.

My solution was to use gfortran which is a part of gcc. Note that I am using the most recent version 4.6. I also had run into memory problems using MPICH1. Simply using MPICH2 fixed those problems.

Let me know if this helps.

Also, be sure to run the script that automatically sets your memory to the correct value. I'll bet your system has more than 400MB per core.

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Shenggangli,

Please contact me directly at bert.dejong@pnnl.gov so we can resolve your issues once and for all. You're compiling with all kinds of NWChem versions, all kinds of compilers and libraries, it is unclear what is going on anymore. Let's start with ONE platform, and ONE environment and go from there. We'll post the resolution on here once we're done.

Bert

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Bert,

all right, I will write you by email. Thanks,

Shenggang.


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