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ABINIT(1) User Commands ABINIT(1)

abinit - Ab initio atomic-scale simulation software

Show version number and exit.
Show build parameters and exit.
Validate input file and exit.
Set the number of OpenMp threads.
Set memory profiling level. Requires HAVE_MEM_PROFILING
Log malloc/free only if size > limit in Megabytes. Requires abimem-level 3
Halt the code if one of the *usual* IEEE exceptions is raised.
Signal the occurrence of the *usual* IEEE exceptions.
Use non-blocking ialltoall in MPI-FFT (used only if ndat>1 and MPI3).
Use [Z,C]GEMM3M]
Enable mtrace (requires GNU and clib).
Enable log files and status files in parallel execution.
Use netcdf classic mode for new files if parallel-IO is not needed. Default is netcdf4/hdf5
Use Fortran-IO instead of MPI-IO when operating on Fortran files Useful to read files when the MPI-IO library is not efficient. DON'T USE this option when the code needs to write large files e.g. WFK
Set the timelimit for the run. Accepts time in Slurm notation: days-hours days-hours:minutes days-hours:minutes:seconds minutes minutes:seconds hours:minutes:seconds
Verbose mode
Show this help and exit.
Run F03 mode (for Multibinit only).

The full documentation for abinit is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and abinit programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info abinit

should give you access to the complete manual.

February 2021 abinit 9.2.2