On Tuesday, August 04, 2015 09:01:32 AM Marzari Nicola wrote: > Hi Lorenzo, > > I'd (respectfully) disagree re the extremely expensive - quite the opposite. > > The cost of a vasp licence is comparable to the cost of one workstation, > anywhere in the world, or two weeks of the full cost of a postdoc in the us > or europe. Sometimes it might be difficult to raise those funds, but the > personnel costs of the people running the codes, followed by the costs of > the computational resources, are most often the real > cost/expense/investment. Of course, there are exceptions, but for most > groups worldwide one needs to look at the overall picture when assessing > cost.
You are right, but I find that paying a VASP licence (which if I am correct is licenced per-person) just to find out what "WAVECAR and CHGCAR" are is a bit excessive :p. Is is like going to a Libanese restaurant and ask if they do that thing that looks like kebab. cheers -- Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto IdR @ IMPMC -- CNRS & Université Paris 6 +33 (0)1 44 275 084 / skype: paulatz http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/ 23-24/4é16 Boîte courrier 115, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cédex 05 _______________________________________________ Pw_forum mailing list [email protected] http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum
