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[Ari.P.Seitsonen@iki.fi]

> after playing with the code I have been able to compile the code
> on the Cray T3E but when I run an example the program allocates
> 32 processors, 32 tmp files were create but only 20 were used (others
> (tmp_LOG_001 -> tmp_LOG_011 were empty), is the number of
> tmp files related to the number of K points employed?
> 
> In the ones which were not empty I got a message at the end:
> 
>   abinit : after indefo
>  P-0012
>  P-0012  memana : ERROR -
>  P-0012   Test failed to allocate an array of    101.022 Mbytes
>  P-0012   It is not worth to continue
>  P-0012   Action : modify input variable to fit the available memory,
>  P-0012   or increase limit on maximal array size.
>  P-0012
>  P-0012  leave_new : decision taken to exit ...
>  P-0012  leave_new : synchronization done...
>  P-0012  leave_new : exiting...
> 
> does anybody knows where this problem comes from?

Too little memory, as the error message says. T3E does/did not have
swap space. Maybe the processors have only 128 MB of memory per
processor; I think that the command to check that is 'mppview -s config'.

    Greetings from Zurich,

       apsi

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