Il giorno 21/gen/2011, alle ore 21.11, Yuyang Zhang ha scritto:
> Dear All,
>
> I am now carrying on the calculation for a system with 2300 electrons in a
> 20x22x25 angstrom^3 supercell.
>
> I always submit jobs on a blue-gene type machine with 512 CPUs (power 470)
> connected with infiniband.
>
> In VASP, time scale for a single SCF step is about 150 sec (spin polarized,
> gamma point only, 400 eV energy cutoff)
>
> In PWSCF, with a 25Ry energy cutoff, a single SCF step will take 3000 sec
> (spin polarized , gamma point only, -npool=2).
>
> I check "massive parallel" on the manual and the arxive of this mailing list,
> and try to use -ntg tag when submitting the jobs but no significant
> improvement.
In that section you should also have found this:
Since v.4.1, ScaLAPACK can be used to diagonalize block distributed matrices,
yielding better speed-up than the default algorithms for large (> 1000 )
matrices, when using a large number of processors (> 512 ). If you want to test
ScaLAPACK, use configure -with-scalapack. This will add -D__SCALAPACK to DFLAGS
inmake.sys and set LAPACK_LIBS to something like:
LAPACK_LIBS = -lscalapack -lblacs -lblacsF77init -lblacs -llapack
are you using parallel diagonalization with scalapack?
GS
>
> There is no reason that PWSCF runs 20 times slower than VASP. Does anyone
> have experience to improve the parallel efficiency for these large systems?
>
> Best,
>
> Yuyang Zhang
>
> Nanoscale Physics and Devices Laboratory
> Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
> Beijing 100190, P. R. China
>
>
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