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ORCA

ORCA

Information

ORCA is a multi-purpose quantum-chemical software package. It features a wide variety of methods ranging from semi-empirical methods to density functional theory to correlated single- and multi-reference wave-function based methods. Environmental as well as relativistic effects can be taken into account. ORCA is the leading software tool in the calculation of spectroscopic properties of open-shell molecules.

FAccTs

Anleitung

  1. How to access the software
  2. Multi node jobs

How to access the software

To use the ORCA module on the cluster, you must be a member of the orca usergroup. Access is only granted after accepting the ORCA End User License Agreement (EULA). To do so, register on the ORCA forum, log in once, and accept the EULA when prompted. Afterwards you will receive a confirmation email with the subject “Confirmation ORCA Registration”. Please contact IT-ServiceDesk and forward this confirmation email to request access.

Once you have been added to the orca group you can access the software in the following way:

module load ORCA
 

Available ORCA versions can be listed with module spider ORCA. Specifying a version will list the needed modules: module spider ORCA/6.1.0

Upon loading the ORCA module, the executable can be called with the environment variable $ORCA
 

Multi node jobs

We recommend using $HPCWORK to run multi-node simulations.


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