tddft transfm: failed to allocate w2


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Hi,

I have a large NWchem 6.3 Tamn-Dancoff TD-DFT calculation (1244 electrons, 12 excitations, restart from a previous successful geometry optimization) that dies with the following error message:

tddft_transfm: failed to allocate w2 0

This happens right at the beginning of the TD-DFT calculation:

 Entering Davidson iterations
Restricted singlet excited states

 Iter   NTrls   NConv    DeltaV     DeltaE      Time   
---- ------ ------ --------- --------- ---------
tddft_transfm: failed to allocate w2 0

A Google search suggests this error message is most likely generated by the tddft_transfm routine.

What could be the reason for this error? Is it likely to be a disk or memory issue? I've never seen this error before but than again this is probably the largest system I've ever tried ti run TD-DFT on with NWChem.

Thanks,

Martijn

P.S. As a side-note, to get the geometry optimization to run without problems I needed to add set grid:eaf_size_in_dbl 8000000 to my input file.

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Martijn
You are running out of memory
You might want to put the following memory line in the top part of your input file.

memory stack 1200 mb heap 200 mb global 500 mb

Cheers, Edo


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