<br>Sorry, google mail did not send my signature, hope that now is OK.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Goranka Bilalbegovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gbilalbegovic@gmail.com">gbilalbegovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">If someone is an absolute beginner, and there is  nobody around in real life to help, then after finishing with the Fortran tutorial, for example: <a href="http://www.cs.mtu.edu/%7Eshene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/fortran.html" target="_blank">http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/fortran.html</a><br>

it is perhaps rather hard to understand how Quantum Espresso and pwscf are organized.<br><br>Perhaps, for computing/programming, it is useful to read about:<br><br>Make:  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_%28software%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)</a><br>

Configure script: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configure_script" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configure_script</a><br><br>and also to check some of the Tutorials by Paolo Giannozzi:<br><br>The Quantum ESPRESSO Software Distribution: <a href="http://www.fisica.uniud.it/%7Egiannozz/QE-Tutorial/tutorial_overview.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/QE-Tutorial/tutorial_overview.pdf</a><br>

Notes on parallel computing:  <a href="http://www.fisica.uniud.it/%7Egiannozz/QE-Tutorial/tutorial_para.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/QE-Tutorial/tutorial_para.pdf</a><br><br>and, of course, a review article about QE:<br>

<a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/21/39/395502/" target="_blank">http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/21/39/395502/</a><br><br>Best regards,<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Goranka Bilalbegovic, <br>Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, <br>University of Zagreb, Croatia<br>