Dear Jonathan,

I did some test calculation with 1685 bands and 1296 Wannier functions, so only 
half the size of yours, but "ballpark"-ish.  In that case the MMN and AMN were 
much smaller (intentionally), at 1.2G and 109M; with 1 k-point (but not using 
the gamma-only mode) it took about 18h in serial on some ordinary xeon machine. 
 I think wannierisation scales more or less like ~ n_wann^2 (and 
disentanglement n_wann^3).  So it should be quite a bit faster than you seem to 
be seeing.

Do you know how much memory each MPI process is using?  How many MPI processes 
are you running on the 512G machine?  Could it be that memory is after all 
being exhausted?
Yours,
Jerome Jackson.

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> On 26 Feb 2021, at 10:22, Jonathan Backman <jback...@iis.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm trying to run Wannier90 using MPI for a large system.
> 
> 2688 Bloch states, 2048 Wannier functions, and 27 K-points. (3x3x3 grid).
> 
> AMN file size: 6 GB
> 
> MMN file size: 42 GB
> 
> My system does not run out of memory during the parallel run (512 GB 
> available).
> 
> When using one MPI process then calculation progresses, but very slow due to 
> the size.  However, when running using multiple MPI processes  the 
> calculations runs but does not progress at all, I have tried waiting over 2 
> weeks.  I tried different number of MPI processes, but I would assume 27 
> would be the best since I have 27 k-points.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with the MPI version of the code for large 
> systems? Are there any specific setting that should be used when running 
> using MPI?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jonathan Backman, ETH Zürich
> 
> 
> 
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