User:Manoj

VASP BENCHMARKING

Intel Machine ( E5-2643 @ 3.30GHz)

VASP Native FFT Library

Following library and flags were used:

MKLDIR    = $(HPC_MKL_DIR)
MKLLIBS   = -lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_sequential -lmkl_core
FFTLIB = -lfftw3xf
INCS = -I$(MKLDIR)/include/fftw
FFT_OBJS = fftmpi.o fftmpi_map.o fftw3d.o fft3dlib.o
FFLAGS =  -free -names lowercase -assume byterecl
OFLAG  = -O2 -xsse2 -unroll-aggressive -warn general

As a first check, SIMD were changed and following is the result for MgMOS (input files can be found in the VASP):

SIMD Instruction	Time(s)
sse2	158
sse4.1	156
sse4.2	155
avx	155
ssse3	156

MKL FFTs (via FFTW wrappers)

Upon profiling the code, we found that the code spends most of its time in the FFT libraries, so the next step is to change FFTW libraries. Following changes were made:

FFT_OBJS = fftmpi_map.o fftmpiw.o fftw3d.o fft3dlib.o

(The change here from original VASP makefile is inclusion of fftmpiw.o, which was not included before. It was fftmpi.o that was in the VASP FFT and was being called and we changed that)

MKLDIR    = $(HPC_MKL_DIR)
MKLLIBS   = -lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_sequential -lmkl_core
INCS = -I$(MKLDIR)/include/fftw
FFTWdir=