Much of the weekend was spent in some relaxation, shoveling snow (I have come to realize that this is a very good exercise – it can make one sweat even when it’s +10F outside!) and trying to debug the errors associated with execution of parallel version of VASP 4.6.28. However, same errors persisted and I didn’t go too far ahead with it.
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