These pages have been designed for the purpose of consolidating computing information for the computational chemistry community at NIST. This page contains:
Ab-initio programs for electronic structure,
energy, geometry optimizations, vibrational frequency calculations are
in red.
Molecular Dynamics packages are in brown.
Graphics type packages for visualization are
in dark blue.
Utilities are in black.
Click
Here for a List of ALL PACKAGES currently supported by ITL.
Name | IBM SP/2 Cluster danube.nist.gov |
SGI Origin 2000 arno.nist.gov (8 nodes R10K) |
SGI Origin 2000 amur.nist.gov (32 nodes R10K) |
SGI Origin 2000 neva.nist.gov (32 nodes R12K) |
SGI Origin 2000 tay.nist.gov (32 nodes R12K) |
Settings & how to use | Comments | Internal NIST Example |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GAUSSIAN 98 | Serial/Parallel | Serial/Parallel | Serial/Parallel | Serial/Parallel | Serial/Parallel | click here | WebSubmit modules available. | Yes |
GAMESS-US | Parallel only | Serial/Parallel | Serial/Parallel | Serial/Parallel | Serial/Parallel |   | no |
Name | IBM SP/2 Cluster danube.nist.gov |
SGI Origin 2000 arno.nist.gov (8 nodes R10K) |
SGI Origin 2000 amur.nist.gov (32 nodes R10K) |
SGI Origin 2000 neva.nist.gov (32 nodes R12K) |
SGI Origin 2000 tay.nist.gov (32 nodes R12K) |
Settings & how to use | Comments | Internal NIST Example |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
UHBD | Brownian Dynamics | No | ||||||
CHARMM | Molecular Dynamics | No | ||||||
Amber | Molecular Dynamics | No |
Name | IBM SP/2 Cluster danube.nist.gov |
SGI Origin 2000 arno.nist.gov (8 nodes R10K) |
SGI Origin 2000 amur.nist.gov (32 nodes R10K) |
SGI Origin 2000 neva.nist.gov (32 nodes R12K) |
SGI Origin 2000 tay.nist.gov (32 nodes R12K) |
Comments | Internal NIST Example |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CERIUS2 | Only | On | Public | SGI | systems | On public SGIs | Links to outside documents |
INSIGHT-II | Only | On | Public | SGI | systems | On public SGIs | Links to outside documents |
MOLDEN | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |   | No |
XMakemol | no | yes | yes | yes | yes |   | No |
RasMol | Only | On | Public | SGI | systems | Type "rasmol" at prompt | Links to outside documents |
Name | IBM SP/2 Cluster danube.nist.gov |
SGI Origin 2000 arno.nist.gov (8 nodes R10K) |
SGI Origin 2000 amur.nist.gov (32 nodes R10K) |
SGI Origin 2000 neva.nist.gov (32 nodes R12K) |
SGI Origin 2000 tay.nist.gov (32 nodes R12K) |
Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
WebSubmit | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | Web based batch job submission |
The General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS) is a general ab initio quantum chemistry package. This program is maintained by the members of the Gordon research group at Iowa State University. This software can also be run on Macintosh or PC's.
The Official Gaussian Home Page (http://www.gaussian.com) is the definitive word on this package. You will find a Gaussian 98 On-line help file, a list of Keywords and Technical Notes,If you have are a new user or unfamiliar with GAUSSIAN at NIST, please click here for NIST-wide specifications.
If you need help getting started using GAUSSIAN, there are a series of web pages just for you. Please click here.
Insight II is a graphical modeling and simulation environment that seamlessly integrates a wide variety of scientific software for research in the life and materials sciences.XMakemol is a program for viewing and manipulating atomic and molecular systems, displaying atoms, bonds, and hydrogen bonds. It is written in ANSI C and uses the Xlib library for rendering and also the Xt and Motif toolkits for the user interface. XMakemol is distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (Version 2, June 1991)
You can get much more information by going to the XMakemol homepage:
http://brian.ch.cam.ac.uk/~matt/XMakemol/XMakemol.html
RasMol
is a free program which displays molecular structure. It is available for on
PC/Windows (RasWin), MacIntosh (RasMac), unix, and VAX VMS (the latter two via X-windows),
and also (through ports by users) for NEXTSTEP and for Acorn
Archimedes RISC OS. RasMol is a powerful educational tool for showing the
structure of DNA, proteins and smaller molecules.
It is also a powerful research tool. It is easy to use and produces
beautiful, space-filling, colored, 3-dimensional images. It is the
generous gift to the scientific public of its author, Roger A. Sayle,
Ph.D., GlaxoWellcome, and the University of Edinburgh (all in the United Kingdom).
NIST's ONLINE Reference Databases
NIST Chem web Book
Protein Data Base This is a good site
especially if you plan on using Cerius2.
Computational Chemistry Comparison and
Benchmark DataBase
Links to NIST's CENTRAL COMPUTING Facility
The above link will let you give you information for generic job submission details.
Also check out the
Consulting Services if you need additional assistance.
Machine name | Hardware |
danube.nist.gov | A 48 node (80cpu) IBM SP/2 |
sci-apps.nist.gov | IBM workstation cluster |
arno.nist.gov | An 8 node SGI Origin 2000 |
amur.nist.gov | A 32 node SGI Origin 2000 |
neva.nist.gov | A 32 node SGI Origin 2000 |
tay.nist.gov | A 32 node SGI Origin 2000 |
If you are having a problem using software, getting started using a particular machine or would like to make a request for new software then:
Contact Dr. Robert Bohn of The Information Technology Laboratory
([email protected]) at x-4731. Send me e-mail with a description of the
problem, the package and the type of platform you used.
Scientific Applications and Visualization Group
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division
Information
Technology Laboratory
NIST