Hello Gunnar,

On May 11, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Gunnar Palsson <gunnar.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My question is: Is there a way to compile QE-GPU with the Maxwell 
> architecture and if so how? I read on the forum that unfortunately the 
> Maxwell architecture does not do double precision very well.

Maxell is not supported, you can force the compilation but as you pointed 
already in your email double precision is going to be bad.


> Is it a prohibitive loss of precision if one restricts the calculations to 
> single precision?

Well... for the GPU implementation you simply cannot switch precision 
on-demand. QE-GPU reflects the QE implementation, if the original code si 
double precision than the GPU code is double precision. QE is all double 
precision so the switch cannot be done.

I cannot comment on what it is going to happen if you switch everywhere from 
double to single (for some part it may work, for other may not), domain experts 
in the physics can give a proper answer to this. from an implementation point 
of you, again, cannot be done.

HTH

Cheers

--
Mr. Filippo SPIGA, M.Sc.
Quantum ESPRESSO Foundation
http://www.quantum-espresso.org ~ skype: filippo.spiga

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