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The reason for the correct value 1e-8 is that only very special methods have accuracy more than 8 significant numbers. So there should be no need smaller tolerance in practive.
On the other hand there can be issues with multithreading and even different implementations of calculators for different calls (forces vs energy_forces etc.) that cause small variations. So, it is better to have relatively loose tolerance here.
This default
rtol
of1e8
strikes me as odd.AtomsCalculators.jl/src/submodules/Testing.jl
Line 31 in 2ab8742
I have not read through the full mechanics, but I'd expect something
<1
, so I suspect it's a typo and1e-8
is meant.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: