[Wien] k-point parallelization in WIEN2K_09.1

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Jun 21 09:27:42 CEST 2010


Thanks for the info.

It was detected before and in WIEN2k_10.1 it is already corrected.

Renate Dohmen schrieb:
> Dear Prof. Blaha,
> 
> may I point out a mistake in the siteconfig file of Wien2k_09.2 we 
> shortly detected when one of our users at RZG had a problem. The 
> questionable section (l. 842-852) is
> 
> ------------  part of siteconfig  ----------------------------
> if !("$input" == "") then
>         if ($input == "y" || $input == "Y") then
>           echo "setenv USE_REMOTE 0" >parallel_options
>           echo "setenv MPI_REMOTE 0" >parallel_options
>           echo "setenv WIEN_GRANULARITY 1" >>parallel_options
>           set shmem
>         else
>           echo "setenv USE_REMOTE 1" >parallel_options
>           echo "setenv MPI_REMOTE 1" >parallel_options
>           echo "setenv WIEN_GRANULARITY 1" >>parallel_options
>         endif
> ------------  part of siteconfig ------------------------------
> 
> I think in line 845 it has to be:
>           echo "setenv MPI_REMOTE 0" >>parallel_options
> and in line 850:
>           echo "setenv MPI_REMOTE 1" >>parallel_options
> because otherwise parallel_options file is overwritten and the setting 
> of USE_REMOTE is lost.
> 
> The mail of Khakhaber Jandieri reminded me that I wanted to inform you 
> about this.
> 
> Best regards,
> Renate Dohmen
> 
> Kakhaber Jandieri wrote:
>> Dear Prof. Blaha
>>
>> setenv USE_REMOTE 1  solved all existed problems.
>> k-point parallelization runs successfully in WIEN2K_09.1 with correct 
>> distribution of the tasks between the reserved nodes.
>> MPI-parallelization is also OK.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>>
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