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<p><font face="Times New Roman">Yes, you can run mpi on your single
PC. If I remember correctly, lapw1 (and maybe also lapw2) is
usually slower than lapw0 , so you will want to run them in
parallel.<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">However, several PC on a GB-network
might run calculations faster than your single PC as was
mentioned before [
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg09334.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg09334.html</a>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman">If you can find a company,
university, or research center to collaborate with that has an
Infiniband based cluster, that should be even better.</font></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/3/2017 5:04 AM, Chouaib AHMANI
FERDI wrote:<br>
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<div>Thank you for your reply.</div>
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<div>I tried the conversions between struct and cif files, but the
structures remains the same. 336 atomes!</div>
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<div>I don't have MPI installed because I never had to use it,
will it allow for example to run lapw0 on multiple cores in my
single PC ? <br>
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