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For phonon calcs at gamma, has VASP worked out how to continue an interrupted run? I get too many modes to calculate, and even worse, whenever the parallel job collapses before its completion, I have to redo all the calculation from the beginning.

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Hi Tiger-paw,

I once did a posting about that story, but I can't find it again. The story is, there is now way it works with the standard vasp. So I wrote myself some extension, which is working mostly )
It also can use your interrupted OUTCAR for starters ...
alex

This is one of the biggest problems with VASP, it seems. A phonon calculation with a real system can take a week, or more, to finish. If the processor crashes in the midst of one of these calculations, all is lost.