On Apr 30, 2009, at 10:13 , Gabriele Sclauzero wrote: > I think you can use this parallelization level even on a cluster, > so that you do not have to do modes and irreps sequentially, > but you can split them in concurrently running (multiprocessor) > jobs so that you-ll have an actual speed-up.
sure, but it is currently not implemented in a MPI framework: it has to be done "by hand". It isn't difficult to implement it, using the "image group", though. > Or are you forced to use a single processor in order to exploit > this start_q, last_q,... keywords? no, I don't think so, or if so, it can be easily fixed Paolo --- Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy
