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Description: {{TAG|KPAR}} | Description: {{TAG|KPAR}} is the number of '''k'''-points that are to be treated in parallel. | ||
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The set of '''k'''-points is distributed over {{TAG|KPAR}} groups of compute cores, in a round-robin fashion. | |||
This means that a number of compute cores together work on an individual '''k'''-point (choose {{TAG|KPAR}} such that it is an integer divisor of the total number of cores). | |||
Within this group of cores that share the work on an individual '''k'''-point, the usual parallelism over bands and/or plane wave coefficients applies (as set by means of the {{TAG|NCORE}} and {{TAG|NPAR}} tags). | |||
'''Note''': the data is not distributed additionally over '''k'''-points. | |||
== Related Tags and Sections == | == Related Tags and Sections == | ||
Revision as of 19:50, 25 September 2012
KPAR = [integer]
Default: KPAR = 1
Description: KPAR is the number of k-points that are to be treated in parallel.
The set of k-points is distributed over KPAR groups of compute cores, in a round-robin fashion. This means that a number of compute cores together work on an individual k-point (choose KPAR such that it is an integer divisor of the total number of cores). Within this group of cores that share the work on an individual k-point, the usual parallelism over bands and/or plane wave coefficients applies (as set by means of the NCORE and NPAR tags).
Note: the data is not distributed additionally over k-points.