Dear Bipul,<div><br></div><div>You can try Small Displacement Method ( see <a href="http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbdxa/">http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbdxa/</a> ) which has different idea than DFPT.</div><div>It requires you to make 2 displacement in a supercell and calculate the forces with single scf. You can run scf's at the same time. </div>
<div>For example, you need to calculate the forces in 5x5x1 graphene supercell having 50 carbon atoms for 2 displacemet.</div><div><br></div><div>BUT you cannot observe LO-TO splitting in polar materials (such as honeycomb monolayer ZnO) by using SDM.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards. </div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Bipul Rakshit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bipulrr@gmail.com">bipulrr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi PWSCF user,<br>I am mainly doing Phonon calculation, which generally is time consuming ( even in parallel). I just want to know if there is any possible way to speed up the calculations. i.e. by installing certain libraries or so. Or using some appropirate methods<br>
<br>The machine had many nodes, and each nodes have 8/16 processors. Some of the other details of the machines are as follows:<br><br clear="all"> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz, 64 bit<br>4GB RAM<br><br>compiler: mpif90 and icc<br>
<br>Thanks<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Bipul Rakshit<br>Research Fellow<br>S N Bose Centre for Basic Sciences,<br>Salt Lake,<br>Kolkata 700 098<br>India<br>
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