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<p class=MsoNormal>Some info possibly useful to other PWscf users…<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>I’ve found it too difficult to go through all the turmoil
required to install the Intel compiler on (K)ubuntu 7.10…the install
script is incredibly buggy.  So I switched to gfortran, which installs
effortlessly and without the additional baggage of “license verification,”
and found, at least for my tests (e.g., example07), there are no significant
differences in cpu execution times…fractions of seconds over many hours. 
But, it is far less tolerant of typos in namelist strings (e.g., missing
apostrophes)…but, wait…this might be due to “improvements”
in 3.2.3 which I also upgraded to at the same time!<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Paul
M. Grant, PhD</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Principal,
W2AGZ Technologies</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Visiting
Scholar, Applied Physics, Stanford University</span></b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>EPRI
Science Fellow (Retired)</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IBM
Research Staff Member Emeritus</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:w2agz@pacbell.net"><b><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none'>w2agz@pacbell.net</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.w2agz.com/"><b><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none'>http://www.w2agz.com</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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