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[james raynolds <jamesraynolds@yahoo.com>]

Paul,

There is an MPI version for Mac.  Check out the Mac
website.

Jim Raynolds

--- Paul Fons <paul-fons@aist.go.jp> wrote:

> Hello.  I have what I hope is a simple question.  I
> wish to run  
> abinit to check on the electronic properties of some
> of the model  
> structures we have been developing.  To this end, I
> have (just)  
> purchased at 2.7 GHz dual G5 with 4 GB of memory and
> have ordered the  
> absoft compiler.  Once I have the compiler in hand,
> I plan to compile  
> the latest version of abinit (as there seem to be no
> binaries  
> available).  My question is before I start compiling
> -- I have two  
> cpu's, will I get any more speed by compiling the
> MPI version (and  
> installing the appropriate MPI subsystem) or will
> the serial version  
> give roughly the same performance for my setup.  I
> realize the answer  
> probably depends on the details of the calculation,
> I am really  
> asking about typical and best case results.  Thanks
> for any help.
> 
>                                                     
>                  
> Paul Fons
> 
> 
> Dr. Paul Fons
> Senior Researcher
> National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science &
> Technology
> METI
> Center for Applied Near-Field Optics Research
> (CANFOR)
> AIST Central 4, Higashi 1-1-1
> Tsukuba, Ibaraki JAPAN 305-8568
> 
> tel. +81-298-61-5636
> fax. +81-298-61-2939
> 
> email: paul-fons@aist.go.jp
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