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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ZH-CN link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='text-justify-trim:punctuation'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Dear everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'> I am trying the new EXX-ACE in QE6.1 on a system consists of 215 atoms, and 933 electrons of spin up and 932 down, gamma point only. When no parallelization level is specified in the command line, it runs well. With –nb 2, it runs much faster with the same result. But with –nb 4, it gives a wrong result in the first iteration of EXX and everything followed is wrong. Is there any restriction of the band parallelization here? Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Feng<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>--------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Dr. Feng Wu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Postdoctoral researcher<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>University of California, Santa Cruz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Phone: 831-459-2874<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>