<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all, </div><div>I'm experiencing very very poor behavior of QE 7.5 + LIBXC 7.0.0 on AMD EPYC 7713 CPU regardless of the compilation. I've compiled using gcc+ native AMD libraries aocl or gcc+MKL or intel+MKL. In any case, after successful compilation, I receive very poor behavior using r2SCAN meta-GGA. The system is not large (less than 130 atoms) and the same calculation behaves reasonably well on two <span style="color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:quote-cjk-patch,Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R (16 cores each) (much older and much lower benchmark), nearly 300 secs per scf iteration step. Using two AMD EPYC 7713 cpus (64 cores each, much faster and with NUMA access) the performance is even worse than two </span><span style="color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:quote-cjk-patch,Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">Xeon(R) Gold 6226R.</span><span style="color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:quote-cjk-patch,Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:quote-cjk-patch,Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I've spent days trying to fix it and it seems it could be related to the AMD EPYC architecture. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:quote-cjk-patch,Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">I wonder if anyone has experienced the same and if there are indications on how to handle this drawback.</span><span style="color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:quote-cjk-patch,Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:quote-cjk-patch,Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">Thanks </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(15,17,21);font-family:quote-cjk-patch,Inter,system-ui,-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">Giuseppe </span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Giuseppe Zollo<div>Dipartimento di Scienze di base e Applicate per l'Ingegneria</div><div>University "La Sapienza" of Rome</div><div>via A. Scarpa 14-16, Rome-Italy</div><div>phone: +39 06 49766947</div></div></div></div>
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