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<p class=MsoNormal>Some info possibly useful to other PWscf users&#8230;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>I&#8217;ve found it too difficult to go through all the turmoil
required to install the Intel compiler on (K)ubuntu 7.10&#8230;the install
script is incredibly buggy.&nbsp; So I switched to gfortran, which installs
effortlessly and without the additional baggage of &#8220;license verification,&#8221;
and found, at least for my tests (e.g., example07), there are no significant
differences in cpu execution times&#8230;fractions of seconds over many hours.&nbsp;
But, it is far less tolerant of typos in namelist strings (e.g., missing
apostrophes)&#8230;but, wait&#8230;this might be due to &#8220;improvements&#8221;
in 3.2.3 which I also upgraded to at the same time!<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Paul
M. Grant, PhD</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Principal,
W2AGZ Technologies</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Visiting
Scholar, Applied Physics, Stanford University</span></b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>EPRI
Science Fellow (Retired)</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IBM
Research Staff Member Emeritus</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:w2agz@pacbell.net"><b><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none'>w2agz@pacbell.net</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.w2agz.com/"><b><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none'>http://www.w2agz.com</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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