[Wien] NMATMAX
Maciej Polak
maciej.polak at pwr.edu.pl
Tue Jul 12 20:35:20 CEST 2016
Everything is OK, that only means that you have a complex calculation,
in which case the NMATMAX is in addition reduced by sqrt(2), so you have
13000*sqrt(36/2)=55154. You should read the users guide, its all there
(page 213).
Try 64 cores.
Best regards
Maciej Polak
On 07/12/2016 08:26 PM, Luis Ogando wrote:
> Dear Polak,
>
> Thank you for your response.
> In fact, I am using only one k-point with in a 36 processors MPI
> calculation. In this case, I should have the matrix size limited to
> 13000 (NMATMAX) x sqrt(36) = 78000, but I am getting "MATRIX SIZE" =
> 55150. What am I still missing ? Is NMATMAX defined in another place ?
> Thank you again.
> All the best,
> Luis
>
>
>
> 2016-07-12 15:11 GMT-03:00 Maciej Polak <maciej.polak at pwr.edu.pl
> <mailto:maciej.polak at pwr.edu.pl>>:
>
> The NMATMAX you have defined in your param.inc is the maximum size
> for a non mpi parallel calculation. If you use MPI, then the
> NMATMAX will be automatically increased by sqrt(nmpi). So if you
> want to increase your matrix size, the best way is to use mpi
> parallel execution. Simply increasing NMATMAX and recompiling
> lapw1 and then running it without mpi may lead to unrealistically
> high computational time.
> And yes, the NMATMAX is really limiting the effective the RKmax,
> as you need more matrix elements to represent a bigger basis set.
>
> Best regards
>
> Maciej Polak
>
>
> On 07/12/2016 07:53 PM, Luis Ogando wrote:
>> Dear Wien2k community,
>>
>> I am calculating a compound with H atoms. Due to this, I used
>> RKmax = 3.0 as recommended in the Wien2k homepage.
>> The calculating run without a problem, but I got :
>>
>> :WARN : WARNING: RKmax reduced due to NMATMAX
>>
>> In $WIENROOT/SRC_lpaw1/param.inc I have NMATMAX=13000 and, to
>> my surprise, I also have :
>>
>> :RKM : MATRIX SIZE 55150LOs: 295 RKM= 2.38 WEIGHT= 1.00 PGR:
>>
>> when I was expecting MATRIX SIZE <= NMATMAX
>> I would like to get an effective RKmax=3.0 for testing
>> convergence and to get it I was thinking in changing NMATMAX in
>> $WIENROOT/SRC_lpaw1/param.inc and recompiling the SRC_lapw1
>> directory.
>> Well, as I am not sure if NMATMAX is really limiting the
>> effective RKmax, I would like to know what I misunderstood and
>> what is the correct procedure to increase the effective RKmax.
>> Thank you for your attention !
>> All the best,
>> Luis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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