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Alex Granovsky
gran@classic.chem.msu.su

glad to know that!

00400 means simply 400 i.e. leading zeros do not affect the value.

I'd suggest you to check the sequence I have suggested - i.e.,
the consequent powers of two: 512, 1024, 2048, etc...

Regards,
Alex


On Fri Apr 2 '10 12:49pm, Vyacheslav wrote
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>Sorry!
>I was mistaken in arithmetics! Performance appeared much better! Now I have for 16, 24, 32 cores performance about 165, 244, 312%. I've made runs with unknown to me (but not for FF) values mxgsum=00400, 00800, 001000, 004000. In all these runs results rather close. What these values (00400 etc) means in my case?

>PS. Excuse me please once again. Before start on a cluster I have made test on Head node where I have one more FF which I yet did not update... 
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>On Fri Apr 2 '10 12:00pm, Vyacheslav wrote
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>>Hi, Alex,
>>I've edit my previous post and insert first results (before your post has appeared on page) - but with wrong number 00400 (as I've learnt now from your post). I've tried to run FF with mxgsum=0x400 however FF wrote that he doesn't understand what is means. Then I put mxgsum=00400…
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>>On Fri Apr 2 '10 11:00am, Alex Granovsky wrote
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>>>Hi,

>>>this is just C language-like syntax for hexadecimal constants.
>>>The 0x is just a prefix to mark hexadecimal input.
>>>In particular, 0x400 means 400 hexadecimal that is 1024 decimal.
>>>Firefly accepts also 0o (for octal) and 0b (for binary) constants.

>>>Regards,
>>>Alex
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>>>On Fri Apr 2 '10 10:21am, Vyacheslav wrote
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