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    Hi Matt,<br>
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    Thanks for your answer. I will try the analytic Poisson solver.<br>
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    Regards,<br>
    Pierre<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/09/2020 16:22, Matt W wrote:<br>
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      There are no timings for the gas phase run but it looks like the
      pw operations are dominating - they don't really care how many
      atoms are involved just the box size (you have nearly 8x more grid
      points). With the wavelet poisson solver you only need around 5A
      space around the system to be OK but having to be cubic means you
      are limited by the largest dimension of your molecule. If it is
      very much bigger in one direction you might be better with
      analytic poisson solver and a non-cubic box.
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      <div>Matt<br>
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        <div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Tuesday, September 22,
          2020 at 3:14:58 PM UTC+1 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pier...@gmail.com">pier...@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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          <div> Dear Marcella,<br>
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            Please find as attached document two output files. The first
            aco-mo.inp contains the results for a crystal made of 78
            atoms. This is a normal condensed phase calculation. The
            second opt.out is for the gas phase system made of 75 atoms.
            The systems have nothing in common.<br>
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            I would like to attract your attention that the grid cutoffs
            of aco-mo.inp are much larger than those of opt.inp, and yet
            aco-mo.inp is much faster than opt.inp.<br>
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            I am also running the gas phase system on a single node of a
            cluster with 40 MPI tasks. The calculation is obviously
            faster than on my workstation but still frustratingly slow.<br>
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            Regards,<br>
            Pierre</div>
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            <div>On 22/09/2020 14:00, Marcella Iannuzzi wrote:<br>
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            <blockquote type="cite"> Dear Pierre, 
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              <div>from the timings in the output you should be able to
                determine where the calculation is spending most of the
                time and compare to the condensed matter calculation.
                Most probably OMP is not the most efficient in this case
                to parallelise. Have you tried with 8 tasks instead. </div>
              <div>Regards</div>
              <div>Marcella</div>
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                  22, 2020 at 1:53:36 PM UTC+2 <a href=""
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                  <div> Hi Marcella,<br>
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                    I am trying to run the calculation on my workstation
                    with just OMP (8 threads). This usually works for
                    condensed phase with a two hundred atoms so I
                    thought it would be fine for just 75 atoms. Anyway,
                    I reduced the cutoffs and it seems to be helping a
                    lot but it is still slow and require a lot of
                    memory. Please find as attached document the input
                    file I am using.<br>
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                    Regards,<br>
                    Pierre</div>
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                    <div>On 22/09/2020 11:06, Marcella Iannuzzi wrote:<br>
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                    <blockquote type="cite"> Dear Pierre, 
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                      <div>Without additional information, like input,
                        output, scaling with the number of processors
                        ..., </div>
                      <div>it is not possible fo provide any help.</div>
                      <div>Regards</div>
                      <div>Marcella</div>
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                          September 21, 2020 at 1:09:03 PM UTC+2 <a
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                          users,
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                          <div>I would like to know how to perform a gas
                            phase calculation with CP2K. I tried to
                            follow some of the examples available in the
                            tutorials but they lead to very slow and
                            heavy calculations for a system with only 75
                            atoms.</div>
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                          <div>I used wavelet for the Poisson solver, I
                            set periodic none for both the solver and
                            the cell. The cell is cubic with a size of
                            26.250 A. I am using DFT (PBE) with OT.
                            Should the number of grid be changed
                            compared to a condensed phase? What about
                            the cutoffs?</div>
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                          <div>Alternatively, I tried the periodic
                            approach with a larger cell so that the
                            molecule "does not interact" with its
                            periodic image .Yet again, the calculation
                            is extremely demanding in terms of memory
                            which makes the OS kill the job.</div>
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                          <div>Is there a solution to these problems?<br>
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                          <div>Regards,</div>
                          <div>Pierre</div>
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