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Alex Granovsky
gran@classic.chem.msu.su

was it a parallel job? or just a multithreaded one?

What was the calculation type?

Kind regards,
Alex Granovsky



On Thu Jun 6 '13 11:24pm, Fumihito Mohri wrote
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>Dear Firefly users.

>Someone has consulted me the following problem with Firefly.
> He has a PC with 8 cores + HTT(i.e. logically with 16 cores) and added the key words:.
> $SYSTEM MKLNP=16 $END
> $SMP HTTNP=2 $END
> $SMP httfix=.f. $END
> $SMP httpar=.t. $END
> $SMP httalt=.t. $END
> $SMP CSMTX=.t. $END
> $P2P P2P=.t. DLB=.t. $END

>He says that this job is very time consuming (about 10 times more than GAMESS(US) job), why?. I think that in this case MKLNP should be 8. Is this correct? Are there any other causes for 'time consuming' ? 

>Best regards,
>Fumihito Mohri