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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I have two questions:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) I am running phonon calculations on a system of 100 atoms and only at the Gamma point! It is really taking a lot of time. It is running in the parallel computing mode with a total of 16 processors on 2 nodes and still is going slow. Is there a way to speed up things? and is there a way to do the whole phonon dispersion in lesser time?</div><div><br></div><div>(2) If only the phonon frequencies at the Gamma point were calculated , I was wondering what kind of information about the system can one get?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Elie Moukeas</div><div>University of Nottingham</div><div>NG7 2RD</div><div>UK</div></div>
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