[Pw_forum] Efficient parallelization

Sergey Lisenkov proffess at yandex.ru
Wed Apr 6 10:32:52 CEST 2005


Dear Axel,

>looks perfectly. 6 times 4 is 24. the parallelization is first
>across the k-points, since those calculations are almost independent
>AND THEN for EACH k-point across g/r-space. the latter parallelization
>is less efficient, so the choice of the -npool parameters is very
>important for efficient use of your cpu resources (if you have
>multiple k-points). this is explained in the manual in more detail.

If I run the code on SMP machine, does k-parallelization efficient?

 Best wishes,
   Sergey



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