<div dir="auto"><div>Many, many points:</div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">1) mpi and k-point parallel are different. For mpi you need software, e.g. openmpi or the Intel impi and you need to include this in the configuration. You will need to learn some Linux/computing basics and/or get help from someone local. It is not really appropriate to ask this list to help install mpi.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2) Increasing rkmax is not as efficient as mpi in my experience, although this depends upon the computer architecture (Peter has the opposite conclusion for small problems).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3) mpi allows you to share the load, for instance have 16 cores working on the job not one. 16 cores can be ten times faster than one, although note 2) above. For 300 atoms without mpi your problem may not converge before 2018.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">4) 1 Re atom in fcc Fe has at least cubic symmetry. If you do not enter positions right, symmetry/sgroup won't find the symmetry. I would use cryscon which is cheap, and allows one to generate CIF files with symmetry. There are other codes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">5) For 300 atoms probably only 1 k-point is needed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">6) Walk before you run. Understand a small model first.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">_____<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Gyorgi<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 6, 2017 3:54 AM, "Chouaib AHMANI FERDI" <<a href="mailto:ahmaniferdichouaib@gmail.com">ahmaniferdichouaib@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Mr Gavin Abo, </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Unfortunately, I do not have access to supercomputer nor to a cluster. I will have to stick with my PC for a while. I thought that MPI was for running jobs on multiple (actual) machines, but since I can
run lapw1 in multiple cores in my Single PC (edit .machine file), I guess I already have MPI installed. </font></div>
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</div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Mr Peter Blaha,</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">I realize that 300 atoms is quite a lot including magnetic atoms such as Fe and RE elements (4f), in fact, 1 cycle took 5 hours to complete, with 40 min for Lapw0, 1h50min for Lapw1 (on 2 cores) for up
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">I think the problem is that I am stuck with klist : 2</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">and if I increase kpoints, so that for example 10 machines would take the job, (klist 10) I think that Lapw0 will take too long since I cannot run it in multiple cores.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">About the structure, the unit cell without doping consists of 56 atoms with 16 atoms of Fe (fcc lattice) the doping consists of 0.01 RE + 0.01 Re element doping so that the smallest supercell would be one
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">I will consider your advice and hope that results from doping smaller supercell would help explaining the experimental data we obtained.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Faithfully,</font></div>
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