LSCALU

From VASP Wiki
Revision as of 16:19, 5 April 2014 by Vaspmaster (talk | contribs)

LSCALU = [logical]
Default: LSCALU = .FALSE. 

Description: LSCALU switches on the parallel LU decomposition (using scaLAPACK) in the orthonormalization of the wave functions.


For LSCALU=.TRUE. the LU decomposition in the orthormalization of the wave functions is done in parallel, using scaLAPACK routines. Provided, of course, LSCALAPACK=.TRUE. and VASP was compiled with scaLAPACK support (precompiler flag: -DscaLAPACK).

In many cases, the scaLAPACK LU decomposition based is slower than the serial LU decomposition (compare the timing ORTHCH in the respective OUTCAR files). Hence the default is LSCALU=.FALSE. (the subspace rotation is still done with scaLAPACK in this case).

Related Tags and Sections

NPAR, NCORE, LPLANE, NSIM, KPAR, LSCALAPACK, LSCAAWARE


Contents