Snap error

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Hi there,

I used to run LAMMPS calculations on my own computer with no problem. However, now that I require more computational power, I am starting to run the calculations in a computing cluster. I launched some calculations with a eam intertatomic potential without any problem, even some NEBs. However, now I am running calc with a machine learning (ML) interatomic potential and I have the following error:

LAMMPS (3 Mar 2020)
OMP_NUM_THREADS environment is not set. Defaulting to 1 thread. (src/comm.cpp:94)
  using 1 OpenMP thread(s) per MPI task
Reading data file ...
  orthogonal box = (0 0 0) to (31.0987 10.9881 31.72)
  2 by 1 by 4 MPI processor grid
  reading atoms ...
  457 atoms
  read_data CPU = 0.0321804 secs
SNAP Element = W, Radius 0.5, Weight 1
SNAP keyword rcutfac 4.7
SNAP keyword twojmax 8
SNAP keyword rfac0 0.99363
SNAP keyword rmin0 0.0
SNAP keyword bzeroflag 1
SNAP keyword quadraticflag 0
SNAP keyword bnormflag 0
ERROR: Incorrect SNAP parameter file (src/SNAP/pair_snap.cpp:705)
Last command: pair_coeff * * W_LML.snapcoeff W_LML.snapparam W

If I run exactly the same calc on my computer, it finishes with no problems. Any suggestion?

Jorge

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Did you check if the corresponding package is installed on the cluster that you are using?
check with:
./lmp -h | less

–Vaibhav.

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Are you using exactly the same version of LAMMPS on both computers?

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Thank you very much, I didnt know this command. The module SNAP is load, but not ML-SNAP. I think that this is the problem.

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Yes!

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Can you provide first three lines of output after running lmp -h on both computers?

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Well, you are right. The version I’ve downloaded on my computer is lammps-29Sep2021, while the cluster is lammps-03Mar2020. Anyway, I think the problem is that the cluster version of lammps does not have compiled the ML-SNAP module.

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That is not correct. The package was renamed from SNAP to ML-SNAP between those versions. You need a newer version of LAMMPS on your cluster.

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Thanks for your comment, Axel. I’ll let cluster support know too.

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I suggest you update to the latest stable release 23 June 2022 for more features, bugfixes, and performance enhancements.

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The package was obviously installed, or else there would not have been an error message from pair style snap. If you use a style from a missing package, LAMMPS will print a corresponding message.

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Thanks for tthe correction!

Warm regards,
Vaibhav.

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Is SNAP library is different from ML-SNAP? I had similar error in my simulation. SNAP module is already there in my LAMMPS. I tried to find ML-SNAP, but it is not there. Please help

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Yes, SNAP was just renamed to ML-SNAP. We would all highly suggest updating to a newer version of LAMMPS, don’t really want to debug an old version of LAMMPS.

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I am using 29 Oct 2020 version of LAMMPS. Upgrade required in this case?

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My issue resolved with 22 Dec 2022 version of LAMMPS. But now I have new error ‘unknown parameter diagonal style in snap parameter file’.
What is the meaning of this error?

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The meaning is exactly what the error message says. Your SNAP parameter file has a keyword that is not known. That likely means you are using the wrong file in the pair_coeff command.

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That keyword (diagonalstyle) was removed from SNAP, just needs to be deleted out of the file. See note here: pair_style snap command — LAMMPS documentation

“The previously used diagonalstyle keyword was removed in 2019, since all known SNAP potentials use the default value of 3.”

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Thanks for the information.