Dear Professor Paulo
Thanks for your response.
-pd .true. is a command-line option of the code, not of mpirun, so:
mpirun [options] pw.x -pd .true. [other options]
>>> I have gathered that I misplaced the option. It works fine now.
Regards
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From: Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.gianno...@uniud.it>
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:58 PM
To: Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum <users@lists.quantum-espresso.org>; Elio
Physics <elio-phys...@live.com>
Subject: Re: [QE-users] The pencil decomposition option
On 11/9/22 15:07, Elio Physics wrote:
> there are processes with no planes. Use pencil decomposition (-pd .true.)
>
> How do I tell the code to use the pencil decomposition? I have tried
> adding -pd to the 'mpirun' an adding use_pd=.true. in the PW inout but
> in vain.
-pd .true. is a command-line option of the code, not of mpirun, so:
mpirun [options] pw.x -pd .true. [other options]
Paolo
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