PAW on the Cobalt-Cluster



The strategy script paw_opt


The script paw_opt is a csh-script, which can be found at:

    ~program/paw/scripts/paw_opt

It can be executed with

    paw_opt test.1

The output might be redirected to another file (e.g. test.1.echo). As for paw_run this script does not execute the job
on the queueing system but only run it interactively.

The jobname MUST have an extension of an integer number (not necessarily 1). So the input file MUST be
called something like test.1.inp or so. The number refers to the individual run (or stage) in the strategy.

paw_opt implements the strategy of geometry optimization!
It starts with a conv_psi, conv_cont or conv_r run depending on what is given as directive in the first stage.
It uses paw_run to run this job. Then it automatically creates an input file with a stage-number incremented by one
and runs the next stage etc.
For the conv_psi and conv_cont run the script automatically sets the keyword auto_tol to 0.01 to speed up the convergence.
These steps are necessary to provide a reasonable psi and cont-charges to allow the nuclei to be propagated. For the con_r run the
uses the value specified in the original input (so you can set the convergence threshold for the final optimization to any value or
live it to the default 0.00001).

If the keyword continuum is "on", a conv_cont run will be performed after conv_psi, otherwise not.
You can run paw_opt also with a directive of conv_r in the initial stage. then it runs only one PAW job, but it
expects a rstrt-file to be present.
 

Things not yet implemented

In the near future paw_opt should be able to:

Rochus Schmid    (NEWS: 16.12. 98)