Parallelization of four-component calculations. I. Integral generation, SCF, and four-index transformation in the Dirac–Fock package MOLFDIR
✍ Scribed by M. Pernpointner; L. Visscher; W. A. de Jong; R. Broer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 219 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0192-8651
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✦ Synopsis
The treatment of relativity and electron correlation on an equal footing is essential for the computation of systems containing heavy elements. Correlation treatments that are based on four-component Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations presently provide the most accurate, albeit costly, way of taking relativity into account. The requirement of having two expansion basis sets for the molecular wave function puts a high demand on computer resources. The treatment of larger systems is thereby often prohibited by the very large run times and files that arise in a conventional Dirac-Hartree-Fock approach. A possible solution for this bottleneck is a parallel approach that not only reduces the turnaround time but also spreads out the large files over a number of local disks. Here, we present a distributed-memory parallelization of the program package MOLFDIR for the integral generation, Dirac-Hartree-Fock and four-index MS transformation steps. This implementation scales best for large AO spaces and moderately sized active spaces.