[Wien] Configuring SCRATCH variable for parallel computation

2014-02-13 Thread César de la Fuente
Hi, I 'm doing some tests in the Memento cluster of the University of Zaragoza on TiC system with a k- 100k pts , 4 nodes with 64 CPUs per node. It is a system that does not share RAM and hard disks between nodes during calculations. Initially the parallel computation with Wien2k stopped in the

Re: [Wien] Configuring SCRATCH variable for parallel computation

2014-02-13 Thread Michael Sluydts
Hello César, To perform parallel calculations you do need a shared directory between all nodes. As you have described '/home' appears to be a form of shared storage. What its intention is, is of course not well-known to us. If it is shared there is no direct reason it cannot function for

Re: [Wien] Configuring SCRATCH variable for parallel computation

2014-02-13 Thread Oleg Rubel
It is getting complicated when you do both MPI + k-point parallelization. In large calculations there is usually less k-points. Will it be possible to test MPI with the local scratch without k-point parallelization (i.e., k-point run sequentially)? This will help to mediate problems mentioned by