<div dir="ltr"><pre>Thank you for your reply.<br><br></pre><pre style="margin-left:40px">><i> It's worth to set nimage equal to the number of q-points
</i>><i> in the phonon calculation?
</i>
not necessarily so. Different wave-vectors may have different
workloads: not by order of magnitudes, but a low-symmetry
wave-vector may easily take 5 times more CPU than a high-symmetry
one. <br></pre><pre>But still as far as I understand is there any cost of doing it?<br>Am I loosing somthing by puting nimage=number of q-points in the dyn0 file?<br>I understand that some of the parallel images will be finished before the other,<br>
But there is nothing I can do to speed it even more.<br></pre><pre style="margin-left:40px">><i> In addition I want to ask how the complexity of the phonon calculation
</i>><i> depends on the number of the k-points (in the PW calculation)
</i>
roughly linearly, but the number of actual k-points in phonon
calculations depends upon the symmetry and the wave-vector
><i> and how the number of k-points affects the accuracy of the phonon
</i>><i> calculation.
</i>
more or less (more rather than less) in the same way as it affects
the calculation of other structural properties; quantities related
to the electric field (effective charges and dielectric tensors)
tend to converge more slowly with the number of k-points
P.
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="LTR" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;direction:ltr">It's worth to set nimage equal to the number of q-points in the phonon calculation? In addition I want to ask how the complexity of the phonon calculation depends on the number of the k-points (in the PW calculation) and how the number of k-points affects the accuracy of the phonon calculation. </p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">thank you</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Uri Argaman</p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
Ben-Gurion University, Israel</p></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>