[Wien] lapw0_mpi for dual cores

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Sep 8 20:16:58 CEST 2006


lapw0_mpi runs nicely and efficient on dual cores, but even  
gigabit ethernet is sufficient.
Note: parallelization is over atoms, thus when you have 11 atoms it is 
significantly slower than whith 10 atoms on one doal core.

However, overall lapw0 does not take too much time in most cases.
 
> I've been checking the system monitor and it appears that even with
> OMP_NUM_THREADS=2 lapw0 really only using about 50% of the processing
> power of the dual cores. Has anyone tried using lapw0_mpi for a dual
> core, and was it easy to implement
> 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Michael
> 
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