<div dir="ltr">Dear QE developers,<div>I would like to have your opinion on the procedure I followed in doing phonon calculations.</div><div>I found that the use of nimages on my machine (8 numa zones) greatly improves the speed of some calculations, but the first (initialization?) part of the calculation (epsil=.true., i.e. the Electric Fields Calculation) is much faster when performed without the use of "-ni 8" switch in ph.x</div><div><br></div><div>So, I tested the following procedure and apparently worked for a small test crystal:</div><div><br></div><div>1) pw.x (vc-relax optimization) without using "-ni"</div><div>2) scf on the optimized structure containing "wf_collect=.true." and using "-ni 8"</div><div>3) ph.x containing "only_init = .true." and without using "-ni"</div><div> This calculate the electric fields</div><div>4) duplicate the directory _ph0 and copied to _ph1 ... _ph7 (in output directory)</div><div>5) ph.x containing "recover = .true." and using "-ni 8"</div><div> This is the part where I get most of the speedup</div><div>6) ph.x of the input used in 5), but now without using "-ni"</div><div> This is to collect the partial data and produce the final .out</div><div><br clear="all"><div>I would greatly appreciate any comments in understanding if this procedure is correct.</div><div>On a small crystal was working, but on a bigger crystal gave error.</div><div>Either the procedure is not completely correct or I have to start to look for a problem in the RAM...</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div> Carlo</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre>------------------------------------------------------------
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