[Wien] Does increasing shell values make sense here?

Ponniah Ravindran ponniah.ravindran at kjemi.uio.no
Thu Aug 21 11:28:22 CEST 2003


On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Michael Frotscher wrote:

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> Hello, Wien-ML
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> > Maybe, maybe not. To me it sounds like you should increase swap space.
> > However, you may try to increase data and stack sizes as well.
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> The administrator of the parallel machines told me that swap space is not an
> issue and the data and stack sizes are hardcoded into the kernel.
>
> He said, however, that compiling with 64Bit would increase those limits
> 4-fold. I compiled Wien2k with the default values for HP-UX, which are
> probably 32Bit.
> Is ist possible to run Wien2k as a 64Bit-executable and if yes, how?


In principle Yes.

	You add +DA2.0W in the compiler option to obtain 64bit code.
I have not yet tried to compile wien2k with 64bit mode. But, for vasp
code I have used
FC=mpif90 +source=free +DA2.0W +noppu

to obtain 64bit version in HP-UX machine.

	I hope it will help.

Best regards
Ravi


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