[Pw_forum] n_diag

Paolo Giannozzi giannozz at democritos.it
Fri Nov 18 12:53:55 CET 2011


On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 17:11 -0500, Vivek Ranjan wrote:

> However, the example given in the user guide
> (http://quantum-espresso.org/user_guide/node18.html) is
> ndiag = 144 and n_pw = 256
> 
> In this example ndiag^2 > n_pw 

the example given in the user guide is consistent with how
the code works (i.e. you specify -ndiag N^2 to use N^2 
processors in scalapck diagonalization). The paper you mention 
(not a memorable one, by the way) uses a different convention
(ndiag=N, not N^2) . Thank you for remarking this

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





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