If someone is an absolute beginner, and there is nobody around in real life to help, then after finishing with the Fortran tutorial, for example: http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/fortran.html it is perhaps rather hard to understand how Quantum Espresso and pwscf are organized.
Perhaps, for computing/programming, it is useful to read about: Make: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software) Configure script: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configure_script and also to check some of the Tutorials by Paolo Giannozzi: The Quantum ESPRESSO Software Distribution: http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/QE-Tutorial/tutorial_overview.pdf Notes on parallel computing: http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/QE-Tutorial/tutorial_para.pdf and, of course, a review article about QE: http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/21/39/395502/ Best regards, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20100811/a98ae8db/attachment-0001.htm
