[Wien] Time taken to run a 60 atom/cell program

Laurence Marks L-marks at northwestern.edu
Tue Feb 14 05:58:52 CET 2012


1200 kpoints, and RKMAX 8 are probably both much too large in most cases.
With reasonable values 1 iteration is maybe 15 minutes.

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Professor Laurence Marks
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 On Feb 13, 2012 9:33 PM, "Ghosh SUDDHASATTWA" <ssghosh at igcar.gov.in> wrote:

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> 60 atoms/cell is a very large primitive cell/supercell. I once tried with
> 58 atoms /cell with 1200 k-points and RMT=8.00. 1 SCF cycle took almost
> over 3 hours on 72 processors. So I reduced my k-mesh and ran the SCF
> (non-availability of processors !!!!). ****
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> If you do the same, may be on 100 processors, then you can expect 1 SCF
> cycle to take around 1-2 hours. ****
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> *From:* wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at [mailto:
> wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] *On Behalf Of *****Chee-Keong** *
> *Tan****
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> *Subject:* [**Wien**] Time taken to run a 60 atom/cell program****
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> Dear all,****
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> I am new to this Wien2k program. So would you please answer me? Will it
> take only hours or 1-2 days to run? ****
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> I know the question might be too trivial, but hopefully those who have
> experiences can help me out.****
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> Thanks,****
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> chee ****
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