ambavale sagar wrote: > > Is multi (quad) core processor more efficient than single core for our > abinitio calculations? How efficiently multi-threading is done while > working with serial version of code on multicore machine? > > Thanx. > > > > Sagar K. Ambavale > > PhD student, > > The M.S. University of Baroda, > > India > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Click here. > <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_mail_4/*http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum at pwscf.org > http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum > dual core helps, quad core could give a negligible improvement with respect to dual core. Much can depend on your input, namely, the size of the system you are dealing with, I think.
By the way, you can have a look to previous posts in the forum: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/2006-August/004650.html http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/2006-December/005595.html http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/2007-November/007707.html Giovanni -- Dr. Giovanni Cantele Coherentia CNR-INFM and Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche Universita' di Napoli "Federico II" Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo - Ed. 6 Via Cintia, I-80126, Napoli, Italy Phone: +39 081 676910 Fax: +39 081 676346 E-mail: giovanni.cantele at cnr.it giovanni.cantele at na.infn.it Web: http://people.na.infn.it/~cantele Research Group: http://www.nanomat.unina.it
