On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:50 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:


>          In the manual, I found increasing the diago_david_ndim can lead
> to a faster calculation. Can I obtain a very high speed-up by endlessly 
> increasing
> the value of diago_david_ndim  as long as the memory of my machine is
> enough
>

No. The manual is not very accurate, but it doesn't say that. My advice is
quite the opposite: set diago_david_ndim to the minimum (2). What is lost
in terms of H\psi computation is typically compensated by the reduced
dimension on matrices to be diagonalized

Paolo

>
>
> Best regards!
> Jiqiang Li
> Fudan University, China
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