It was a ghost in the machine.
She printed the two pages, highlighted K.H.’s note, and added her own: vasp manual pdf
She typed mpirun -np 1024 vasp_std .
The error log was a haiku of despair: ZHEGV DRIVER: INFO THE MATRIX IS BADLY SCALED. It was a ghost in the machine
ALGO = All TIME = 0.4 She held her breath and resubmitted the job. highlighted K.H.’s note
"Works for tellurides, too. - Elara."
Page 342. The margins contained a scribbled note next to the ALGO = Fast entry: "For van der Waals systems with d10 electrons, try ALGO = All and TIME = 0.4 . Trust me. - K.H."