[Pw_forum] QE and mpich2, Linux

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I reviewed that doc thank you, I wonder if it is a little out of date, mpirun redirects to mpiexec which does not support options "-nimage" and "-npool" , those are mentioned for Plane-wave tasks on page10.

I am running it now in blocks of 4 cpus to match the number-combination requirement.
4 cores on the same system completes in 1h47m , 16 cores on the same system completes in 2h19m.

Is this not going to get faster on a single system until we add more memory to the system? or perhaps to drop the number of cpus specified in mpiMachinefile.txt so it spreads a fewer number of jobs over a greater number of systems? or is the bottleneck to do with the local hard drives not being fast enough?

I am not familiar with the maths equations/terminology mentioned in the document.

thanks,

nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: giannozz at democritos.it
> Sent: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:16:06 +0100
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> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] QE and mpich2, Linux
> 
> in order to take advantage of parallelization, some understanding of
> how parallelization works in QE is needed. The user guide and this
> document:
> http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/QE-Tutorial/tutorial_para.pdf
> contain some info. Throwing in more processors will not by itself do
> the job.
> 
> P.
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