[Wien] a parallel error of lapw0 with MBJLDA potential (updated)

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Jun 14 08:57:38 CEST 2010


> 1. I do not fully understand what you mean that "It is probably
> completely uncritical for the gap,...".
> After the temporary fixed in brj.f, can the code deal with correctly
> the system which have very heavy elements?
>  and their bandgaps are reasonable?

Yes.

> 2. We doubt that there are still some bugs in lapw0_mpi, because the
> bandgap is different,
> 
> Ge:
> 0.85eV  (lapw0)
> 0.71eV  (lapw0_mpi)

There was still a bug in the interstitial region in case you have more
processors than atoms.
It has been fixed and the new version is on the web.

PS: This new version includes also improved W2kutil and W2kinit subroutines,
which also compile under Sun Solaris.
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