[Pw_forum] references for philosophy of parallel execution

[Andrea Ferretti]

Hi Sreekar,

you can have a look at the QE user-guide, which comes along with the
distribution in ~espresso/Doc .
There you can find more than one sections devoted to parallelism in QE.

Regards
Andrea


> hello QE users,
> i would be grateful if u could provide me with any references for the
> principles involved in parallel execution like how the grids are divided
> among processors which, should supposedly enhance perfomance, etc. because i
> performed a parallel execution and the CPU time taken is more than that in
> the serial case
>
> thnks in advance
>
>
>

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