There is no problem of compatibility between QE and AMD CPUs. What I heard is that compiler and mathematical library support for AMD CPUs is lagging with respect to Intel CPUs. This recent message however may be of interest for you:
https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/pipermail/users/2020-February/043979.html Paolo On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 8:23 PM Appleton, Robert J <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello users, > > My research lab at CSULA is in the process of purchasing a new machine and > I was wondering if the community might help. Our main question at this > point is will buying an AMD based workstation as opposed to our traditional > Intel based workstations cause any issues with compatibility concerning > software like QE that are compiled in FORTRAN. There are clear financial > advantages to choosing AMD as far getting more computational power for the > same price as an Intel machine (if I am wrong on this please correct me). I > apologize this question is specific to the usage of the QE code but I feel > this forum is still an appropriate place for this discussion. > > I encourage all replies and am thankful in advance, > > Robert Appleton > CSULA Condensed Matter Physics > > _______________________________________________ > Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (www.max-centre.eu/quantum-espresso) > users mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Paolo Giannozzi, Dip. Scienze Matematiche Informatiche e Fisiche, Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
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