Hey Lorenzo,
Brilliant thank you for the information, I see that is a pretty annoying
bottleneck. I tested this last night and it got a little further, now throwing
the error "wrong g", I am reading the papers and online resources to first
understand better how the G vectors should be used so I can figure what is
wrong here. Thank you this was a step in the right direction.
Kindest regards,
Louis
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Lorenzo Paulatto <[email protected]>
Sent: 08 February 2017 08:55:32
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Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] PW.x homogeneous electric field berry phase calculation
in trigonal cell
On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 6:47:18 PM CET Louis Fry-Bouriaux wrote:
> Interesting, I will try that, I will add that I tried the calculation
> with lelfield=.true. and all efield_cart values to zero and it gives me the
> same error. I also reduced the number of auto k points to speed up testing
> (auto: 6 2 2 0 0 0/ nppstr=6, which takes ~160s). I may take a look at the
> code maybe there is something that can be done if I identify what is going
> on :/
Hello,
I managed to find the original emails from 2012 about the issue; it used to be
much worst but Paolo Giannozzi wrote a quick fix that does make the issue much
lighter.
Still. the case gdir=3 (or pdir=3, if you are doing polarization) is much
faster than the other cases, and there is not easy solution. The reason is
that the code needs to build planes of G-vectors that are orthogonal to the
direction of the k-points string.
The bottleneck is a single call:
CALL mp_sum(aux_g(:), intra_bgrp_comm )
which collects a wavefunctions over all the CPUs.
This call becomes slower and slower when more CPUs are involved. It used to be
unbearably slow, now it is just slow.
There is no obvious solution, as the parallelisation is hard-coded along the z
direction. Try to stick to gdir=3 if you can.
hth
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