gamess
Description
General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS (US)) is a general ab initio quantum chemistry package. GAMESS Manual: Refer to $GMSPATH/docs after loading the module.
More information
- Homepage: https://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamess/
Available Versions of gamess
Version | Module | Available on |
|---|---|---|
2020R2 | chem/gamess/2020R2 | Noctua 2 |
This table is generated automatically. If you need other versions please click pc2-support@uni-paderborn.de.
Usage Hints for gamess
If you need support in using this software or example job scripts please click pc2-support@uni-paderborn.de.
First Steps
Before you can access GAMESS-US on our HPC systems, you have to agree to the license conditions of GAMESS-US via https://doku.pc2.uni-paderborn.de/pages/1902360/Licensed+Software. Then we can enable access for you.
Noctua 2
Access is restricted. Please apply for access.
After loading any of the above GAMESS modules you can submit computation by:
gamess.sh mol.inp nprocs walltimegamess.shis the GAMESS job scriptmol.inpis the name of GAMESS input filenprocsis the number of MPI processeswalltimeis the requested compute walltime
For example, the following command submits a GAMESS calculation for caffeine.inp using 16 MPI processes for 2 hours:
gamess.sh caffeine.inp 16 2:00:00Further information
After loading the GAMESS module, you can find
official GAMESS User’s Guide in
$GMSPATH/docsmore GAMESS examples in
$GMSPATH/examples