[Wien] A question regarding a calculation for a 56 atoms unit cell

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Jun 6 09:56:54 CEST 2011


> Sir we have set OMP_NUM_THREAD = 8 and it using all the 8 processors as can also been seen from CPU_MONITOR

OMP_NUM_THREAD = 8 does NOT give any speed up !! Did you check your running time with values of OMP_NUM_THREAD =1,2,4
and a k-parallelization !



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