Hi Lee,

Thank you very much for your kind reply. Unfortunately it seems that the recent 
PR helps a bit, but the calculation is still quite slow. Our hope is perhaps we 
can take further advantage of FFW parallelization but its not clear which 
settings we would need to play with to do so.

Thanks again,

Daniel Marchand
Research Intern – Microsoft Station Q


From: H. Lee <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:10 PM
To: Daniel Marchand <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Wannier] [EXTERNAL] Re: pw2wannier very slow on large system

Dear Daniel:

pw2wannier90.x doesn't support the task group parallelization; so the flag of 
-ntg doesn't work.
I still think that you can achieve some speedup from using the recent MR I 
mentioned.

Sincerely,

Hyungjun Lee
UT Austin

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 4:14 PM Daniel Marchand 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your responses. A quick question regarding the parallelization 
settings. Prof. Mostofi, you mention that parallelization is supported across 
the FFT grid, but I wanted to know if I am enabling its use correctly. So far I 
am not using any specific flags, as I would with pw.x. Am I correct in assuming 
that pw2wannier automatically adjust the settings appropriately with the number 
of cores available? For pw.x there is a -ntg flag to adjust FFW 
parallelization, yet pw2wannier does not seem to accept this as input. Is there 
something I’m doing wrong?

Best,

Daniel Marchand
Research Intern – Microsoft Station Q

From: H. Lee <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 9:18 AM
To: Daniel Marchand 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Wannier] pw2wannier very slow on large system

Dear Daniel:

Regarding this issue, you could try the following recent merge request:

https://gitlab.com/QEF/q-e/-/merge_requests/1176

Sincerely,

Hyungjun Lee
UT Austin

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 1:08 PM Daniel Marchand 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

We’re having some trouble running pw2wannier on a very large system as it is 
running very slow. To give some comparison, we are able to finish the nscf 
calculation in ~4hours, while pw2wannier has not finished the first MMN: iknum 
step even after ~8 hours of runtime. It seems like in theory pw2wannier should 
be parallelizable but we found poor performance beyond a single node.

Is there anything we can do to help speed up the process? Parallelization steps 
to try out or common pitfalls that we could avoid?

Best,

Daniel
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