Overview

OpenMX (Open source package for Material eXplorer) is a software package for nano-scale material simulations based on density functional theories (DFT) , norm-conserving pseudopotentials and pseudo-atomic localized basis functions.

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After extracting the files from the source3.962.tar.gz tarball, first create a directory called work and then go into the source3.962 directory. Edit the makefile for the compilers and MPI on the system you will be using. For example, on the HPC-AI Advisory Council’s Rome cluster, using Intel 2023.2 compilers, Intel MKL, and HPC-X 2.19, the following shows the differences between the modified makefile and the original one:

[gerardo@login02 source3.962]$ diff makefile makefile_orig 
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< ## MKLROOT = /opt/intel/mkl
< CC = mpicc -O3 -march=core-avx2 -ip -no-prec-div -qopenmp -diag-disable=10441 -I${MKLROOT}/include/fftw
< FC = mpif90 -O3 -march=core-avx2 -ip -no-prec-div -qopenmp
< ## LIB= -L${MKLROOT}/lib/intel64 -lmkl_scalapack_lp64 -lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_intel_thread -lmkl_core -lmkl_blacs_openmpi_lp64 -lmpi_usempif08 -lmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr -lmpi_mpifh -lifcore -liomp5 -lpthread -lm -ldl
< LIB= -L${MKLROOT}/lib/intel64 -lmkl_scalapack_lp64 -lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_intel_thread -lmkl_core -lmkl_blacs_openmpi_lp64
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> MKLROOT = /opt/intel/mkl
> CC = mpicc -O3 -xHOST -ip -no-prec-div -qopenmp -I/opt/intel/mkl/include/fftw/
> FC = mpif90 -O3 -xHOST -ip -no-prec-div -qopenmp
> LIB= -L${MKLROOT}/lib/intel64 -lmkl_scalapack_lp64 -lmkl_intel_lp64 -lmkl_intel_thread -lmkl_core -lmkl_blacs_openmpi_lp64 -lmpi_usempif08 -lmpi_usempi_ignore_tkr -lmpi_mpifh -lifcore -liomp5 -lpthread -lm -ldl
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<       $(FC) $(OBJS) $(LIB) -lm -nofor-main -o openmx
<       ## $(CC) $(OBJS) $(LIB) -lm -o openmx
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>       $(CC) $(OBJS) $(LIB) -lm -o openmx

To build, just execute make install. If everything goes well, there will be an executable called openmx
in the ../work directory you created earlier. (See also Installation tips.)

You will also need (at the same level where your work and source3.962 directories are), the DFT_DATA19 directory that contains the database needed by OpenMX.

Tasks and Submissions

You can practice building and running with a tiny input, Methane, below.

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3. Visualize the results, create a short video that demonstrate the given input via ParaView or any other suitable toolOpenMXViewer (https://www.openmx-square.org/viewer/ just drag and drop). Include it in the team’s interview ppt slides. If you use have an X (Twitter) account, please tag the video/photo with your team name and the hashtags “#ISC25 #ISC25_SCC” prior to the team interview.

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