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Parallel Vasp jobs should set NCORE automatically

Open pmrv opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Vasp wiki recommends either 2 to the number of cores per socket or sqrt(cores). I guess we can just adopt either of these.

Ping @raynol-dsouza since he brought it up in the meeting today. :p

pmrv avatar Aug 08 '22 17:08 pmrv

Since NCORE can have very different optimal values depending on the architecture of the HPC system the implementation should take of not overwriting a manually set value.

Leimeroth avatar Aug 10 '22 07:08 Leimeroth

I'm still thinking about the right way of setting the NCORE flag. In addition to @Leimeroth's very valid point, one would also need to make sure that master jobs like the Murnaghan job don't break or underperform because of this.

raynol-dsouza avatar Aug 10 '22 13:08 raynol-dsouza