[Pw_forum] Pw_forum Digest, Vol 42, Issue 43

Riping WANG wang.riping.81 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 27 01:07:25 CET 2010


Der prof. Paolo,

Thanks very much to your reply.

  1. Re: ion_radius (Paolo Giannozzi)

WANG Riping
2010.12.27


On 25 December 2010 12:36, <pw_forum-request at pwscf.org> wrote:

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>   1. Re: ion_radius (Paolo Giannozzi)
>   2. how does the calculation scales with number of processors
>      (mohnish pandey)
>   3. Re: how does the calculation scales with number of        processors
>      (Stefano de Gironcoli)
>   4. Re: how does the calculation scales with number of        processors
>      (mohnish pandey)
>   5. Re: how does the calculation scales with number of        processors
>      (Paolo Giannozzi)
>   6. Merry Christmas (jiayudai)
>   7. About the difference between the energy obtained from
>      geometry optimization and single energy calculation. (Hongsheng Zhao)
>   8. About the relationship between enthalpy and pressure.
>      (Hongsheng Zhao)
>   9. Re: About the relationship between enthalpy and pressure.
>      (Stefano de Gironcoli)
>  10. Re: About the difference between the energy obtained from
>      geometry optimization and single energy calculation. (Prasenjit Ghosh)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:56:00 +0100
> From: Paolo Giannozzi <giannozz at democritos.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] ion_radius
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> On Dec 24, 2010, at 7:56 , Riping WANG wrote:
>
> > In example18, for cp.x practice. I found the  " ion_radius(1)
> > and     ion_radius(2) " in the input file.
> > Could you please tell me something about this input parameter, and
> > how to set?
>
> usuallly you do not need to set it: the default value should be fine.
> ion_radius is the width of a gaussian distribution of charge replacing
> the point charge of the (pseudo-)nucleus. It should be big enough
> to ensure convergence of the total energy in G-space, small enough
> to yield negligible overlap between gaussians. Valus around 0.8 are
> usually fine. The total energy and forces should not change if
> ion_radius changes.
>
> P.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:12:19 +0530
> From: mohnish pandey <mohnish.iitk at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] how does the calculation scales with number of
>        processors
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> Dear QE users,
>                         I am trying to see how the runtime scales with
> number of processors. I did the same calculation using one node with eight
> processors on one cluster and 8 nodes with total 56 processors on other
> cluster but the time does not seem to scale linearly with the number of
> processors. Can anybody give me an idea how does the time scale with number
> of processors.
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> --
> Regards,
> MOHNISH,
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> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:20:34 +0100
> From: Stefano de Gironcoli <degironc at sissa.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] how does the calculation scales with number of
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> It strongly depends on the particular calculation and on the
> parallelization strategy you choose. Linear scaling would be the ideal
> scaling which you never get.
> The things to keep in mind are  load balancing  and  communication
> overhead. This last is affected by your communication network latency
> and  bandwidth ... As a general rule the bigger the calculation the
> easier is to scale.
> It may be useful to have a look at the final timing summary of a
> calculation to see the fraction of time spent in communication (FFT
> scatter/gather and reduce operations) compared with the total wall clock
> time for your system and how this changes for different settings.
> Another factor to keep in mind is RAM memory as with certain
> parallelization strategies you can trade some speed with increased memory.
>
> stefano
>
> mohnish pandey wrote:
> > Dear QE users,
> >                          I am trying to see how the runtime scales with
> > number of processors. I did the same calculation using one node with
> eight
> > processors on one cluster and 8 nodes with total 56 processors on other
> > cluster but the time does not seem to scale linearly with the number of
> > processors. Can anybody give me an idea how does the time scale with
> number
> > of processors.
> > Thanks a lot in advance.
> >
> >
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:56:41 +0530
> From: mohnish pandey <mohnish.iitk at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] how does the calculation scales with number of
>        processors
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> Thanks a lot Dr. Stefano for your reply.
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Stefano de Gironcoli <degironc at sissa.it
> >wrote:
>
> > It strongly depends on the particular calculation and on the
> > parallelization strategy you choose. Linear scaling would be the ideal
> > scaling which you never get.
> > The things to keep in mind are  load balancing  and  communication
> > overhead. This last is affected by your communication network latency
> > and  bandwidth ... As a general rule the bigger the calculation the
> > easier is to scale.
> > It may be useful to have a look at the final timing summary of a
> > calculation to see the fraction of time spent in communication (FFT
> > scatter/gather and reduce operations) compared with the total wall clock
> > time for your system and how this changes for different settings.
> > Another factor to keep in mind is RAM memory as with certain
> > parallelization strategies you can trade some speed with increased
> memory.
> >
> > stefano
> >
> > mohnish pandey wrote:
> > > Dear QE users,
> > >                          I am trying to see how the runtime scales with
> > > number of processors. I did the same calculation using one node with
> > eight
> > > processors on one cluster and 8 nodes with total 56 processors on other
> > > cluster but the time does not seem to scale linearly with the number of
> > > processors. Can anybody give me an idea how does the time scale with
> > number
> > > of processors.
> > > Thanks a lot in advance.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> MOHNISH,
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> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:28:22 +0100
> From: Paolo Giannozzi <giannozz at democritos.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] how does the calculation scales with number of
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> On Dec 24, 2010, at 10:42 , mohnish pandey wrote:
>
> >  Can anybody give me an idea how does the time scale with number of
> > processors.
>
> please see the user guide in particular chapter 3:
> http://www.quantum-espresso.org/user_guide/node15.html
> and this, in particular the "(Too) Frequently Asked Question"
> http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/QE-Tutorial/<http://www.fisica.uniud.it/%7Egiannozz/QE-Tutorial/>
>
> P.
> ---
> Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Chemistry&Physics, Univ. Udine
> via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy
> Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:07:29 +0800
> From: "jiayudai" <daijiayu at nudt.edu.cn>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] Merry Christmas
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> Mearry Christmas to every body.
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> Good luck for us!
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:30:44 +0800
> From: Hongsheng Zhao <zhaohscas at yahoo.com.cn>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] About the difference between the energy obtained
>        from    geometry optimization and single energy calculation.
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> Dear PWSCF users,
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> The geometry optimization can give the minimal energy of our system. What's
> the difference between the energy obtained from geometry optimization and
> the single energy calculation?
>
> Best regards.
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> School of Physics and Electrical Information Science,
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:50:43 +0800
> From: Hongsheng Zhao <zhaohscas at yahoo.com.cn>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] About the relationship between enthalpy and
>        pressure.
> To: PWSCF Forum <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
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> Dear PWSCF users,
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> We all know that, the pressure-Volume, and energy--Volume curve can be
> obtained by fitting of EOS.  But what's the relationship between enthalpy
> and pressure?
>
> Best regards.
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> Hongsheng Zhao <zhaohscas at yahoo.com.cn>
> School of Physics and Electrical Information Science,
> Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China
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> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 03:10:52 +0100
> From: Stefano de Gironcoli <degironc at sissa.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] About the relationship between enthalpy and
>        pressure.
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> Pressure is the thermodynamical variable upon which enthalpy depends
>
> If you know  E(V) you can define H(P) = min_V ( E(V) + P V )
>
> Have a look in a book of thermodynamics.
>
> stefano
>
>
>
> Hongsheng Zhao wrote:
> > Dear PWSCF users,
> >
> > We all know that, the pressure-Volume, and energy--Volume curve can be
> obtained by fitting of EOS.  But what's the relationship between enthalpy
> and pressure?
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
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> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:06:09 +0530
> From: Prasenjit Ghosh <prasenjit.jnc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] About the difference between the energy
>        obtained from geometry optimization and single energy calculation.
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> In geometry optimization you relax both the ionic coordinates and the
> electronic coordinates to obtain the minimum energy configuration. In
> a single energy calculation, you minimize only the electronic
> coordinates for a given fixed ionic position.
>
> Prasenjit
>
> On 24 December 2010 20:00, Hongsheng Zhao <zhaohscas at yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
> > Dear PWSCF users,
> >
> > The geometry optimization can give the minimal energy of our system.
> What's the difference between the energy obtained from geometry optimization
> and the single energy calculation?
> >
> > Best regards.
> > --
> > Hongsheng Zhao <zhaohscas at yahoo.com.cn>
> > School of Physics and Electrical Information Science,
> > Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China
> > GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493
> > 2010-12-24
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