Problems using cgmin with COSMO and also with charge density fitting.


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Dear all,

I have been trying to optimize a [Zn(NH3)4]2+ complex with NWChem, and COSMO, using a rather tight SCF convergence criteria (the criteria recommended by Frank Neese). I could not converge it with the regular procedure so I decided to use cgmin. Cgmin converges very nicely, but it crashes soon after. In order to pinpoint the problem, I switched to the default convergence criteria and ran a few tests.

Below I attach the input and the error I get. I also tried a few modifications: taking out the charge density fitting, wich avoided the problem but revealed a new one, this time with COSMO, among others. After the input and the error, I detail all modifications I used and the errors I got (and the combination that avoided errors). Everything preceded by a # is my annotation. It appears that using charge density fitting or COSMO cause cgmin to fail.

All the tests were ran in nwchem-6.3.revision2-src.2013-10-17, in a x86-64 machine.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Cheers!

Raul


INPUT:

start ZnComplex
echo
charge 2
memory total 4000 mb
geometry units angstroms noautosym
Zn    -1.262   0.914  -0.069
N -1.516 2.882 0.229
H -1.195 3.199 1.153
H -1.012 3.466 -0.451
H -2.501 3.173 0.167
N -2.366 -0.099 1.267
H -2.904 -0.869 0.847
H -1.807 -0.531 2.014
H -3.059 0.487 1.749
N 0.671 0.424 0.155
H 0.834 -0.592 0.138
H 1.279 0.810 -0.578
H 1.071 0.752 1.044
N -1.860 0.441 -1.925
H -2.173 1.254 -2.471
H -1.123 0.002 -2.491
H -2.648 -0.220 -1.942
end
basis "ao basis"
Zn library def2-tzvp
N library def2-svp
H library def2-svp
end
basis "cd basis"
* library "Ahlrichs Coulomb Fitting"
end
cosmo
dielec 80.0
do_gasphase False
end
dft
cgmin
vectors output ZnComplex.movecs
iterations 100
grid fine
xc xtpss03 ctpss03
disp vdw 3
print convergence information parameters
mult 1
end
driver
maxiter 200
trust 0.3
gmax 0.0500
grms 0.0300
xmax 0.1800
xrms 0.1200
xyz ZnComplex_prev
end
task dft optimize
driver
maxiter 200
trust 0.1
gmax 0.003
grms 0.0001
xmax 0.004
xrms 0.002
xyz ZnComplex
end
task dft optimize


  1. Error 1, after converging the firs SCF.

                           NWChem DFT Gradient Module
--------------------------



 charge          =   2.00
wavefunction = closed shell

------------------------------------------------------------------------
dftg_cdfit_gen: file cdfit does not exist 0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
An error occured while trying to read or write to disk space
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For more information see the NWChem manual at http://nwchemgit.github.io/index.php/NWChem_Documentation


For further details see manual section:
0:0:dftg_cdfit_gen: file cdfit does not exist:: -1
(rank:0 hostname:c15 pid:6529):ARMCI DASSERT fail. ../../ga-5-2/armci/src/common/armci.c:ARMCI_Error():208 cond:0



    1. Variant 2: Without charge density fitting:


  1. Error 2, in the second step of the first optimization.

     Screening Tolerance Information
-------------------------------
Density screening/tol_rho: 1.00D-10
AO Gaussian exp screening on grid/accAOfunc: 14
CD Gaussian exp screening on grid/accCDfunc: 20
XC Gaussian exp screening on grid/accXCfunc: 20
Schwarz screening/accCoul: 1.00D-08

cosmo_initialize: bq_create failed        0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
There is an error related to the specified geometry
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For more information see the NWChem manual at http://nwchemgit.github.io/index.php/NWChem_Documentation

          1. This message repeates 3 more times, and then:

For further details see manual section:
For further details see manual section:
3:3:cosmo_initialize: bq_create failed:: -1
(rank:3 hostname:d15 pid:1497):ARMCI DASSERT fail. ../../ga-5-2/armci/src/common/armci.c:ARMCI_Error():208 cond:0


    1. Variant 3: With spherical atomic basis set:
  1. Error 3: Same as Error 1

    1. Variant 4: With spherical atomic basis set and not charge density fitting
  1. Error 4: Same as Error 2

    1. Variant 5: Cosmo but do_gasphase True:
  1. Error 5: Same as Error 1

    1. Variant 6: No Cosmo:
  1. Error 6: Same as Error 1

    1. Variant 7: No Cosmo, no charge density fitting.
  1. Error 7: No error, all SCF converge easily, the first optimization converges after 3 SCF, and the second after 6. Even if I added back the tight SCF convergence criteria, the SCF and the optimizations converge easily.


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