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Re: [abinit-forum] minus value of disk file

From: "Matteo Giantomassi" <Matteo.Giantomassi@uclouvain.be>
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Subject: Re: [abinit-forum] minus value of disk file
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:37:11 +0100 (CET)
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> Dear All,
> When i performed some tests on GW calculations, It gave me some minus
> value for estimating disk file, such as
> "WF disk file : -1978.654 Mbytes "
> What does this statement indicate ?
>

There's an overflow error during the calculation of the
size of the array. Thus the reported value is wrong.
It's not a serious matter as that value is only used
to have an idea of the memory required by the wave functions.

Regards,
Matteo Giantomassi

> Regards,
> Hai-Ping
>
>
>
> --
> Hai-Ping Lan
> Department of Electronics ,
> Peking University , Bejing, 100871
> lanhaiping@gmail.com, hplan@pku.edu.cn
>

[abinit-forum] minus value of disk file, lan haiping, 03/14/2009
- Re: [abinit-forum] minus value of disk file, Matteo Giantomassi, 03/14/2009
  - Re: [abinit-forum] minus value of disk file, St Druid, 03/17/2009
    - Re: [abinit-forum] minus value of disk file, lan haiping, 03/17/2009