10 QA tests failed using downloaded binaries


Just Got Here
Hi there,

I just installed the nwchem-6.0-binary-redhat-5-5-gcc-4-1-2 binaries on two different machines with different operating systems. On both machines, the same 10 tests failed while all others passed. The QA tests which failed were:

pyqa
oh2 (this should fail, so not really a failure).
dft_cr2
tce_cr_eom_t_ozone
c60_ecp
xe_zora_sf
i2_zora_so
o2_zora_so
lys_qmmm
ethane_qmmm
qmmm_opt0

I am completely new to NWCHEM and would greatly appreciate some advice!

- Why did these tests fail?
- How can I remedy the problem so that all tests (bar the one which should fail) pass ?

The first machine is running SUSE Linux Release 11 (Kernel 2.6.32.29-0.3-default) with Intel Xeon(R) processors. The second machine is running CentOS release 4.8 (Kernel 2.6.9-89.0.16.ELsmp) on an x86_64 platform.

Please find the doqmtests.log file and the failed tests output files here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30958682/failedJobsOutput.tgz

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Mike

Forum Vet
Hi Mike,

Looks like our test criteria are a little too stringent. Looking at the final results of the output files and comparing them to those in the test suite, everything seems fine. With the exception of:

pyga: This require Python to be compiled into NWChem

tce_cr_eom_t_ozone: You may want to run this test by explicitly running this on 4 processors.

Bert

Quote:Mwykes Dec 8th 12:00 pm
Hi there,

I just installed the nwchem-6.0-binary-redhat-5-5-gcc-4-1-2 binaries on two different machines with different operating systems. On both machines, the same 10 tests failed while all others passed. The QA tests which failed were:

pyqa
oh2 (this should fail, so not really a failure).
dft_cr2
tce_cr_eom_t_ozone
c60_ecp
xe_zora_sf
i2_zora_so
o2_zora_so
lys_qmmm
ethane_qmmm
qmmm_opt0

I am completely new to NWCHEM and would greatly appreciate some advice!

- Why did these tests fail?
- How can I remedy the problem so that all tests (bar the one which should fail) pass ?

The first machine is running SUSE Linux Release 11 (Kernel 2.6.32.29-0.3-default) with Intel Xeon(R) processors. The second machine is running CentOS release 4.8 (Kernel 2.6.9-89.0.16.ELsmp) on an x86_64 platform.

Please find the doqmtests.log file and the failed tests output files here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30958682/failedJobsOutput.tgz

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Mike

  • Guest -
ZORA tests
It seems though, that ZORA implementation was broken in the version 6.0. So the *_zora_* tests should have failed.

I've tried some other ZORA computations with version 6.0, and they gave me strange results, few tens kcal/mol off. DK was OK, for the same test molecules.

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With best regards,
Grigory Shamov

Forum Regular
Hi Grigory, Mike

The ZORA implementation is not broken. Please try the 6.1 version. A number of new enhancements have been implemented in the current release. Small differences in the final ZORA energies are fine.

For ZORA calculations I recommend using the following:
set dft:tol_rho 1d-30
set int:cando_txs f
set dft:job_grid_acc 1d-20

relativistic
 zora on
zora:cutoff 1d-30
end

Best,
-Niri
niri.govind@pnnl.gov


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