Dear Dr. Giannozzi,

By the expression "parallel file system", you meant fast file systems
such as LUSTRE, not NFS via ethernet, right?

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Takahiro Chiba
Undergraduate at Hokkaido University
Expected graduation date: Mar. 2021
Expected to be a graduate student at HU from Apr. 2021
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2021年3月19日(金) 6:14 Paolo Giannozzi <[email protected]>:
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:59 PM Paolo Giannozzi <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> The "wfcdir"" option is  no longer implemented, if I remember correctly.
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> I didn't remember correctly: it is still implemented. As I mentioned earlier, 
> though, it is expected to work only for a subset of all possible use cases. 
> In particular, it should work for the self-consistent code, but I don't know 
> whether it has ever been tested in NEB.
>
> Paolo
>
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>> It was adding unneeded complexity to an already  (too) complex I/O code, it 
>> did not work for many use cases, it was useful only for the rather peculiar 
>> case of a parallel machine with no parallel file system. Unfortunately the 
>> documentation was not updated to reflect its demise.
>>
>> Paolo
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>> Paolo Giannozzi, Dip. Scienze Matematiche Informatiche e Fisiche,
>> Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
>> Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
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>
> --
> Paolo Giannozzi, Dip. Scienze Matematiche Informatiche e Fisiche,
> Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
> Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
>
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