Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1999-02-19
Physics
Condensed Matter
20 pages, 3 figures. Appears in Comp. Phys. Com. Other related publications can be found at http://www.rz-berlin.mpg.de/th/pap
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0010-4655(99)00495-6
The full-potential linearized augmented-plane wave (FP-LAPW) method is well known to enable most accurate calculations of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of crystals and surfaces. The implementation of atomic forces has greatly increased it's applicability, but it is still generally believed that FP-LAPW calculations require substantial higher computational effort compared to the pseudopotential plane wave (PPW) based methods. In the present paper we analyse the FP-LAPW method from a computational point of view. Starting from an existing implementation (WIEN95 code), we identified the time consuming parts and show how some of them can be formulated more efficiently. In this context also the hardware architecture plays a crucial role. The remaining computational effort is mainly determined by the setup and diagonalization of the Hamiltonian matrix. For the latter, two different iterative schemes are compared. The speed-up gained by these optimizations is compared to the runtime of the ``original'' version of the code, and the PPW approach. We expect that the strategies described here, can also be used to speed up other computer codes, where similar tasks must be performed.
Blaha Peter
Hufnagel Lars
Petersen Max
Scheffler Matthias
Schwarz Karlheinz
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