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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/13/21 9:28 PM, Zeeshan Ahmad
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      <div class="">I am working with a ~800 electron system and the
        memory requirement seems to be > 1 TB, much higher than that
        of the scf calculation itself (~130 GB). Is this expected?</div>
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    <p>yes</p>
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      <div class=""> Are there ways to reduce the memory requirement?</div>
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    yes, but it requires a lot of programming<br>
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      <div class="">I am running open_grid.x using mpirun: mpirun -np
        ncores open_grid.x -i opengrid.in > opengrid.out</div>
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    cheers<br>
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      <div class="">with ~4 GB/core memory.</div>
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      <div class="">Thanks,</div>
      <div class="">Zeeshan</div>
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