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[Xavier Gonze <xavier.gonze@uclouvain.be>]

Dear F. Chu,

Supposing that there is a _WFK file that has not been corrupted
by the power failure, you should be able to restart from it using  
irdwfk=1 .
Such a file is written during
intermediate steps if you are using mkmem=0 (while if the k points
are kept in core memory, there is no such intermediate writing of  
file ...).
See the explanation in Section 4 of doc/theory/set_WFs.pdf .
There are several examples of restarts using irdwfk in the
tests/fast/Input/*in files...

Xavier




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On 25 May 2009, at 16:01, Flamingo Chu wrote:

> Dear all,
>       When I was calculating a 31 atoms supercell system, the  
> computer went
> out of power suddenly. How can I deal with this problem? How can I  
> continue
>  to calculate?
>       Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
>       Best regards.
>
>
> Flamingo Chu
>
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