GAMESS-US
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The General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS)[1] is a general ab initio quantum chemistry package.
Running GAMESS
Our Clusters are using the Slurm scheduler; for details about submitting jobs, see Running jobs.
First step is to prepare a GAMESS input file containing the molecular geometry and run parameters. Please refer to the GAMESS Documentation[2] and particularly Chapter 2 "Input Description"[3] for a description the file format and all available keywords.
Besides your input file (in our example name.inp), you have to prepare a job script to define the compute resources for the job; both input file and job script must be in the same directory.
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=2 # Number of CPUs
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2000M # memory per CPU in MB
#SBATCH --time=0-00:30 # time (DD-HH:MM)
module load gamess-us/20170420-R1
rungms name.inp &> name.out
References
- ↑ GAMESS-US Homepage: http://www.msg.ameslab.gov/gamess/
- ↑ GAMESS Documentation: http://www.msg.ameslab.gov/gamess/documentation.html
- ↑ GAMESS: Input Description (PDF): http://www.msg.ameslab.gov/gamess/GAMESS_Manual/input.pdf