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The memory size can be reduced by a hybrid parallel method Date: 2018/03/23 11:50 Name: furtrue   <1606036223@qq.com> Dear OpenMX developers and users, I want to know that in OPENMX, we use different parallel ways (pure MPI, mpi/openmp) to test the example, and how to compare the occupancy of memory size. Why can we reduce memory size by mixing method? Please let me know the solution for this. Thanking you,

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Re: The memory size can be reduced by a hybrid parallel method ( No.1 ) Date: 2018/03/23 21:41 Name: T. Ozaki Hi, > how to compare the occupancy of memory size A simple way is to use the built-in tool of OpenMX as explained at http://www.openmx-square.org/openmx_man3.8/node171.html However, the tool does not give the precise analysis of memory usage. So, I recommend you to use tools of performance analysis such as VTune and CrayPat provided by vender. > Why can we reduce memory size by mixing method? As the number of MPI processes increases, buffer memory used for MPI communications will also be allocated, resulting in increase of the total memory requirement. Also some of arrays are not properly parallelized for the conventional diagonalization, which largely increases the memory requirement. For the latter case, by using the ScaLAPACK version one can reduce the memory requirement. Take a look at http://www.openmx-square.org/openmx_man3.8/node9.html http://www.openmx-square.org/openmx_man3.8/node88.html Regards, TO

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