[Pw_forum] Why my test-calculation is so slowly?

[lfhuang]

Dear Lo_wan:
    I am using SGI too, and  I sometimes encounter the problems like yours, which, however, always can be 
attributed to two reasons below:
(1) one/some of the nodes in paralleled jobs can not work well ;
(2) or can not commute well.
So, maybe you can change your job subscripts(including reducing No. of nodes), then see what happens.
In addition, I encountered some problems when I compile the packages with f90 compiler, and could you tell me
what is your compiler? Thanks!

Best Wishes!
Yours Sincerely
L.F.Huang

> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:55:55 +0800
> From: Lo_wan_2005XW 
> Subject: [Pw_forum] Why my test-calculation is so slowly? SGI4700 for
> 	Si take about 1 hours
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> Dear PWscf users
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> I just download the code and install it in our SGI-4700 without any warnning or error.
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> After that, I try to do the example-calculation (example01).
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> My machine is SGI-Altex-4700, so I change the the following line in the file of run_example 
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> $PW_COMMAND  si.scf.$diago.out
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> $PARA_PREFIX $PW_COMMAND  si.scf.$diago.out
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> I set 
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> PARA_PREFIX="mpirun -np 12"
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> After that, I type ./run_example
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> I can see the following in the screen:
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> sgi4700:~/Quantum-Espresso/espresso-4.0.3/examples/example01> ./run_example 
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> /disk2/Quantum-Espresso/espresso-4.0.3/examples/example01 : starting
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> This example shows how to use pw.x to calculate the total energy and
> the band structure of four simple systems: Si, Al, Cu, Ni.
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>   executables directory: /disk2/Quantum-Espresso/espresso-4.0.3/bin
>   pseudo directory:      /disk2/Quantum-Espresso/espresso-4.0.3/pseudo
>   temporary directory:   /disk2/tmp
>   checking that needed directories and files exist... done
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>   running pw.x as: mpirun -np 12 /disk2/Quantum-Espresso/espresso-4.0.3/bin/pw.x -npool 4
>   running bands.x as: mpirun -np 12 /disk2/Quantum-Espresso/espresso-4.0.3/bin/bands.x -npool 4
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>   cleaning /disk2/xgwan/tmp... done
>   running the scf calculation for Si...
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> By using "top", I can find there are 12 pw.x.  My machine take about 2 hours to finish this simple calculation. It is quite strange! 
> I compare the my output and the data saved in referece-directory, it shows that my result, like total energy, is right comparing with the referenced data.
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> Attached pleased find my output data.
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> I will appreciate if someone can kindly tell me the possible reason for it. 
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> Thanks
> 
> XW
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