Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

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Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

#1 Post by leonardo » Wed Nov 30, 2022 12:50 pm

Dear Colleagues,

I have just bought a very powerful Apple Studio with an Apple M1 Ultra ARM architecture.

Before trying to install VASP on it, I was wondering whether VASP is compatible with this kind of chip architecture.
Any advice would highly be appreciated!

Please, forgive me if this topic has been discussed before but I did not find it in the forum.

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Re: Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

#2 Post by pedro_melo » Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:23 am

Dear Leonardo,

I have installed VASP on my Macbook Pro 2021 (M1 Pro chip) and ran it without any issues. All external libraries were installed with macports, but I am sure that it will also work if these are compiled by hand.

The following libraries were linked during the installation:
1) HDF5
2) FFTW3
3) OPENBlas
4) SCALAPACK
5) Wannier90

For compilers I used gcc10 and mpich, and libraries had openmp support. I include the makefile.include that I used.

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Re: Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

#3 Post by leonardo » Wed May 17, 2023 8:40 am

Dear Pedro,
Many sincere thanks for this very positive and detailed reply to my question!
I really appreciate it because I've just bought the VASP 6 upgrade...
All my very best,
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Re: Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

#4 Post by wojtek_gierlotka » Sun Jul 30, 2023 5:38 am

I've installed VASP on M2 MacBook Pro. I've followed the guideline given on GitHub https://gist.github.com/janosh/a484f384 ... 40e99455c0 , compilation was done with gcc-13.
Everything was good till I started calculations. It's unbelievable slow, much slower than on my old MacBook with intel processor. Has anyone met this problem? If yes, maybe you have some suggestions what to do?


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Re: Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

#5 Post by pedro_melo » Sun Jul 30, 2023 6:12 pm

Dear wojtek,

Did you set OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 before you started your calculation?

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Re: Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

#6 Post by wojtek_gierlotka » Mon Jul 31, 2023 12:12 pm

Dear Pedro,

No, I haven't.

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Re: Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

#7 Post by pedro_melo » Mon Jul 31, 2023 6:55 pm

Dear wojtek,

I would suggest that you try to run VASP after running

$ export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1

in the terminal. From my experience not doing so can slow down calculations.

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Re: Is VASP ready to run on ARM processors?

#8 Post by wojtek_gierlotka » Mon Jul 31, 2023 11:10 pm

Dear Pedro,

thank you so much, it significantly speeded up the calculations.

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