Today, it’s my first day in the VASP world. I’m currently a student and will be working with VASP 4.6. My job will be to determine what features I can rewrite so they will run faster on the GPU (CUDA C).
Since I’m new I have some questions that someone can give some direction on. My UNIX skills need a refresher too, but that is a different story.
From looking at the installation instructions [http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/vasp/I ... _VASP.html] I noticed it references these files.
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vasp.4.X.X.tar.gz or vasp.4.X.X.tar.Z
vasp.4.lib.tar.gz or vasp.4.lib.tar.Z
benchmark.tar.gz
bench.Hg.tar.gz
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My question is will I still be able to install and use VASP correctly if I only had the VASP 4.6 source files (I don’t think I have access to “vasp.4.lib.tar.gz�, “benchmark.tar.gz� and “bench.Hg.tar.gz�)? I don’t know what my school currently has, and I plan to install VASP on Ubunutu 10.10.
My second question are what are some good materials for me to read to learn how people actually use VASP, and what are the problems that are associated with VASP? I would assume that there are some features that people would like to run faster
Thanks for any input. It is much appreciative.
-Pete