[CP2K:10729] Re: How to accelerate the calculation of pdos ?

[Tianshu Jiang in Beijing]

Hi, Krack 
Thanks for your patience ! 
How should I use more cores to accelerate the calculation in cp2k inputfile 
? Should I add some more statement ?

在 2018年9月14日星期五 UTC+8下午3:27:21，Matthias Krack写道：
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> Hi
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> As reported in the CP2K output headers
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> GLOBAL| Total number of message passing 
> processes                             1
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> GLOBAL| Number of threads for this process                               
>     36
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> both runs were not MPI parallel and only OpenMP parallel using the same 
> resources, i.e. one MPI process and 36 OpenMP threads. Thus it is not 
> surprising that you observed no acceleration, since you used the same 
> resources. Moreover, the use of more than 8 threads per (MPI) process is 
> rarely beneficial for CP2K runs and will result rather in a slowdown than a 
> speedup. You have to launch the runs properly, e.g. using something like 
> “mpiexec –n 12 cp2k.popt” which depends, of course, on your installation. 
> If you are using a cp2k.psmp executable, then you should set in addition 
> “export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1”.
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> Matthias 
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> *Subject:* [CP2K:10729] Re: How to accelerate the calculation of pdos ?
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> Hi Krack, thanks for your reply.
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> In the attachment, bilayerIso.out is the file output by 1 core and 
> bilayerIsoPara.out is the file output by 12cores. 
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> I have no idea where the problem is. 
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> 在 2018年9月12日星期三 UTC+8下午7:58:50，Matthias Krack写道：
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> Hi Tianshu Jiang
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> without providing the CP2K output files of your 1-core and 12-cores runs, 
> it is quite unlikely that you will get any reasonable hint from someone in 
> this forum.
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> Matthias
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> On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 04:41:07 UTC+2, Tianshu Jiang in Beijing 
> wrote:
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> Hi everyone in cp2k community,
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> I am using cp2k to calculate the pdos of graphene, but the time spent to 
> completing the calculation when I use 1 core and 12 cores is the same.
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> The version I compile is Linux-x86-64-gfortran, and I use cp2k.psmp to 
> finish the job. 
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> But from the *.out file I get that in both situation (1 core and 12 
> cores), the job finished after half an hour from beginning.
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> My question is how can I accelerate the calculation using parallel 
> computing ?
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> The following is my inputfile. Thanks for your reply !
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> &GLOBAL
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>   PROJECT trilayerABCIso
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>   RUN_TYPE ENERGY 
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>   PRINT_LEVEL MEDIUM
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> &END GLOBAL
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> &FORCE_EVAL
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>   METHOD Quickstep
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>   &DFT
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>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME  BASIS_MOLOPT
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>     POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME  POTENTIAL
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>     &POISSON
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>       PERIODIC XYZ 
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>     &END POISSON
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>     &SCF
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>       SCF_GUESS ATOMIC
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>       EPS_SCF 1.0E-6
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>       MAX_SCF 300 
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>       # The following settings help with convergence:
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>       ADDED_MOS 100 
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>       CHOLESKY INVERSE
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>       &SMEAR ON
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>         METHOD FERMI_DIRAC
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>         ELECTRONIC_TEMPERATURE [K] 300 
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>       &END SMEAR
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>       &DIAGONALIZATION
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>         ALGORITHM STANDARD
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>         EPS_ADAPT 0.01
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>       &END DIAGONALIZATION
>
>       &MIXING
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>         METHOD BROYDEN_MIXING
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>         ALPHA 0.2 
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>         BETA 1.5
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>         NBROYDEN 8
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>       &END MIXING
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>     &END SCF
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>     &XC
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>       &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE
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>       &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
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>     &END XC
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>     &PRINT
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>       &PDOS
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>         # print all projected DOS available:
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>         NLUMO -1
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>         # split the density by quantum number:
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>         COMPONENTS
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>       &END
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>       &E_DENSITY_CUBE ON
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>           STRIDE 1 1 1
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>       &END E_DENSITY_CUBE
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>     &END PRINT
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>   &END DFT
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>   &SUBSYS
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>     &CELL
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>       # create a hexagonal unit cell:
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>       ABC  [angstrom] 2.4612 2.4612 26.72
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>       ALPHA_BETA_GAMMA 90. 90. 60.
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>       SYMMETRY HEXAGONAL
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>       PERIODIC XYZ
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>       # and replicate this cell (see text):
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>       MULTIPLE_UNIT_CELL 6 6 1
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>     &END CELL
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>     &TOPOLOGY
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>       # also replicate the topology (see text):
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>       MULTIPLE_UNIT_CELL 6 6 1
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>     &END TOPOLOGY
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>     &COORD
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>       SCALED
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>       # ABC stacked
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>       C 1./3  1./3  0.
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>       C 0.    3./3  0.
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>       C 1./3  1./3  1./8
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>       C 2./3  2./3  1./8
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>       C 2./3  2./3  2./8
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>       C 3./3  0.    2./8
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>     &END
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>     &KIND C
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>       ELEMENT C
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>       BASIS_SET TZVP-MOLOPT-GTH
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>       POTENTIAL GTH-PADE-q4
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>     &END KIND
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>   &END SUBSYS
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>  
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> &END FORCE_EVAL
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