How many processors can I use with KPAR Paralellization?

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How many processors can I use with KPAR Paralellization?

#1 Post by hachteja » Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:02 pm

Hello all,

I am doing optical properties calculations on a super cell of ~60 atoms, and need to use a very dense kpoint mesh to accurately capture the optical properties.

I have been using KPAR to increase efficiency but I still have not converged the optical properties of my supercell convincingly, and my next step requires 1200 kpoints. Using the scaling of kpar and nprocs that I have been this next job will be with KPAR=6 and nprocs = 768.

Does this kind of massive parallelization affect my VASP output? And should I try and reduce my memory requirements elsewhere? Or can VASP effectively handle being parallelized over 700+ processors?
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Re: How many processors can I use with KPAR Paralellization?

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