[Pw_forum] phonon calculations - parallelization over modes

[Paolo Giannozzi]

Nichols A. Romero wrote:

> Are QE phonon calculations parallel over modes (which should be 
> embarrassingly parallel) + q-points?

short answer: not yet with MPI, but it is possible to execute phonons
on a GRID infrastructure (i.e. many loosely-coupled machines):
http://qe-forge.org/projects/ph-on-grid/

> Also, on a completely different note, is there any way to search the 
> mail archive?

1) the link you find in http://www.quantum-espresso.org/tools.php
2) using google: type for example
PW_forum phonon parallelization site:www.democritos.it

P.
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Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy