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Posted: **Tue May 20, 2008 10:50 pm**

In a relatively large calculation (126 atoms), I had an error that I've never seen before, it may be due to memory allocation. After the first 5 steps of electronic convergence, VASP quit and showed this error:

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[0]Â Abort:Â VAPI_register_mrÂ (ResourcesÂ temporaryÂ unavailable)Â atÂ lineÂ 209Â inÂ fileÂ vbuf.c
mpiexec:Â Warning:Â accept_abort_conn:Â MPI_AbortÂ fromÂ IPÂ 10.1.61.84,Â rankÂ 0,Â killingÂ all.
mpiexec:Â Warning:Â taskÂ 0Â exitedÂ withÂ statusÂ 253.
mpiexec:Â Warning:Â tasksÂ 1-59Â diedÂ withÂ signalÂ 15Â (Terminated).

Has anyone seen this error? Can you confirm that it is a lack of memory? And what can be done to fix this? Can I change INCAR to request more memory allocation?

Thanks!

Tim

Posted: **Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:48 pm**

VAPI_register_mr is an internal function in the infiniband driver for registering MPI buffer memory (i.e. pinning it so that it's not swapped out). With 126 atoms on 60 processors you should not really run into any memory limits, depending on the number of k-points etc. it's only a few hundred MB per processor. However, the amount of registered memory that you can use might be significantly less than the total memory on a node. I think in some implementations you need registered memory proportional to the number of MPI tasks on each node, so you could try running of fewer nodes and see if that helps.

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