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  • From: James Raynolds <JRaynolds@uamail.albany.edu>
  • To: "'forum@abinit.org'" <forum@abinit.org>
  • Subject: RE: [abinit-forum] RE: GW bottlenecks
  • Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:41:51 -0400

Dear Valerio,

Thanks for your comments regarding GW. Do you have an e-mail
address for Mark Torrent?

Jim Raynolds

-----Original Message-----
From: Valerio Olevano [mailto:valerio.olevano@polytechnique.fr]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 7:28 AM
To: forum@abinit.org
Subject: [abinit-forum] RE: GW bottlenecks


>
> the main GW bottlenecks of the GW are:
> the generation of the KSS file
> the calculation of the screening, of thhe independent particle
> polarizability \chi^0
>
> for the first, from the next coming version, there is an option to
> avoid
> the full (or partial) diago required to obtain also the empty (many
> empty)
> states,
> getting them directly from the CG alghorithm. However I guess in some
> cases
> it is more convenient to perform a diago instead of requiring about 20
> times
> the occupied states.
>
> for the second case, also starting from I don't know (I sent it to
> xavier)
> the real space fft mesh has been reduced. there is an aliasing_factor
> in
> setmesh.f
> that has been set to 1 (before it was 2) to speed up the calculation of
> chi^0.
> I hope there will not be surprises with the fft aliasing problem.
> the tests seem to show the option is safe.
>
> We can improve, but I don't know how, in the cchi0 routines.
> by running even the first tutorial you can realize that's the real
> bottleneck.
>
> pay attention that there is someone Marc Torrent that is already
> working
> on
> the parallelization of the code.
> So it's not the case to do twice the same job.
>
> regards
> Valerio Olevano
>
>
>
>


  • RE: [abinit-forum] RE: GW bottlenecks, James Raynolds, 04/15/2003

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