[Pw_forum] about projwfc.x parallelization.

[Paolo Giannozzi]

On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 17:54 +0300, Mutlu COLAKOGULLARI wrote:

> QUESTION: Why this difference is happening while the exact 
> parallelization is setted up as "-nk 1 -nd 1 -nb 1 -nt 1"?

because there are two different routines, one for serial
diagonalization, the other for parallel diagonalization.
The former is called if you explicitly set -nd 1, i.e. 
number of processors for linear algebra parallelization = 1; 
the latter is called if you do not specify a value for -nd 
because the code assumes -nd 4 (4 is the largest square integer
contained in the number of processors, 8 in this case).

You may argue "while do they use different outputs"? The
answer is "for no good reason". Likely some changes to make 
the output more readable have been made in one routine but
not in the other

Paolo
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