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Posted: **Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:38 pm**

Dear all
I've searched the forum with respect to this error. However the only replies I found that this might be due to corrupted or missing INCAR file.
My problem is the following:
I am trying to run vasp parallel.
The jobs starts but the only output I get is the following:

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" testMPI
 Hello World!
 IMAGES            0
 IERR            2
 N            0
 Error reading item 'IMAGES' from file INCAR."

By changing the submission script to point to the serial version of vasp, the job is running without any problem (in a single cpu of course). Therefore, their is no corrupted or missing INCAR file.
I would appreciate any help
Thanx in advance
Liverios

Posted: **Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:24 am**

please check if INCAR is copied correctly to the master node of your parallel job (the one where you start vasp from). you can give
cat INCAR
in your jobscript just before you start vasp, this should dump the INCAR file into your job.stdout file)
If INCAR is copied correctly and the job fails nevertheless, please ask your sys admin whether the input files have to be copied to the slave nodes in your system as well in order to run a job (which is usually not the case)