[Pw_forum] Example 12

[Miguel Martínez]

Dear Paul,

Although this comes with a ton of delay, may I ask you with blas
libraries are you using? I just remembered that Ubuntu (and Debian!)
had a bug in the distributed Atlas libraries, affecting at least one
single precision operation. Maybe some of the double precision
operations are also affected:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/atlas/+bug/363510

Additionally, the atlas libraries distributed with Ubuntu <= 10.04 and
Debian Stable, which are the ones affected by this bug, are also quite
old, 3.6.0, and may suffer from old, already fixed, bugs.

As an alternative, you may want to try GotoBLAS, which is now a BSD
library. The q-e binaries on my laptop are built with that library.
Maybe others here have experience using that library. Link:

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/gotoblas2/

Regards,

Miguel

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:32:12 +0100 Paolo Giannozzi
<giannozz at democritos.it> wrote:
> 
> On Nov 13, 2010, at 21:02 , W2AGZ wrote:
> >      from gep_x : error #        38     error on zggev
> >
> > I smell a fortran compiler problem here
> >
> it might also be a library problem: zggev is a lapack routine,
> and sometimes machine-optimized lapack do not work as
> expected. That error used to be quite frequent in the past.
> 
> P.
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