DMol3

DMol3 is first-principles (ab initio) quantum chemistry software which can perform:

  • Geometry Optimization
  • Transition-state Searches
  • Single-point Energy Calculations
  • Molecular Dynamics

More information and the user guide can be found at http://doc.accelrys.com.

DMol3 is provided as a stand-alone module on blacklight.

You must prepare your input files with the Materials Studio package, available from Acclerys, Inc. See the website at www.accelrys.com.

Usage

  1. Create your input files with Materials Studio.
  2. Create a script containing commands which:
    1. Set up the module command.
    2. Load the DMol3 module.
      module load DMol3
    3. Execute the code with a command like
      $DMOL3/RunDMol3.sh -np $PBS_NCPUS   input 
      
  3. Submit the script using the qsub command.
Last Updated on Friday, 27 April 2012 14:58  

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