[CP2K:3216] real space grid decomposition

[Laino Teodoro]

It's only pw_grids which are distributed like that.

To get a better load balance one should move from pw_grids to rs_grids.

Teo

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On 22 Apr 2011, at 22:47, Noam Bernstein <no... at bollweevil.gdbg.org> wrote:

> Am I correct in surmising that real space grids are decomposed over nodes only
> along the 1st dimension?
> 
> I'm reaching a parallelization bottleneck for QM/MM.  If I do atom
> based parallelization,
> I get pw_restrict_s3 and corresponding routines that take a lot of
> time and don't
> speed up.  If I do grid based parallelization I get no speedup once
> the number of
> parallel processes is comparable to the size of the 1st dimension of the real
> space grid (-18..18 = 39 in my case).  With 32 processes I get some
> parallelization
> but poor load balance, because some processes do grid x value and some do 2.
> For 64 processes some processes are actually doing no work in
> qmmm_forces_with_gaussian_LG(), for example
> 
> Is there anything I'm missing?
> 
>       thanks,
>       Noam
> 
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