Thank you a lot Mr Lorenzo for your suggestions.<br>I will try them and thank you again for your help.<br><br>Regards,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Lorenzo Paulatto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulatto@sissa.it">paulatto@sissa.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Replying to message "[Pw_forum] graphene on BN calculation" from mohamed<br>
sabri majdoub (16/12/09):<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I am not sure that I am doing it the right way. I am using 40 processors<br>
> and I the calculations look very slow to me.<br>
<br>
</div>Well, it's a big system. You can speed it up by using tqr=.true.<br>
(real-space augmentation charge). There is also an experimental real-space<br>
algorithm, but I don't know how reliable it is at the moment (you can<br>
contact baris _at_ <a href="http://sissa.it" target="_blank">sissa.it</a> for additional info).<br>
<br>
> tstress = .t.<br>
<br>
there is no need to print the stress, and it takes time to compute (not<br>
much)<br>
<br>
> diagonalization = 'cg'<br>
<br>
For better performance you should use the default (david). If you have<br>
some problem with it, you should ask for help on the forum before falling<br>
back to cg, which is non much more robust and quite a bit slower. Also,<br>
diagonalization errors are most of the time input errors/bad atomic<br>
positions.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> K_POINTS automatic<br>
> 30 30 1 1 1 0<br>
<br>
</div>this is a huge number of k-points for such a cell, are you sure you need<br>
all of them? Remember that every time you increase the cell size by N you<br>
can reduce the number of k-points by the same factor. (e.g. a 2x2x2<br>
super-cell only need on eighth of the k-points of the original cell).<br>
Computation time scales linearly with the number of points, e.g. "10 10 1<br>
1 1 0" will be about 9 times faster.<br>
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best regards<br>
<br>
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