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Dear Netters,

If there is a possibility of two minima on the PES which lie close to each
other and one of them is very shallow, how one can find this shallow
minimum?.

In Gaussian scf=(tight,qc) will be of help?

Thanks in advance,

Sunoj



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Dear CCLers,
 I am a new user of gaussian. I am facing a problem in representing
transision metals like molybdenum in the Z martix.I tried to represent the
atom using the std atomic symbol : Mo
 but The execution
terminates saying: Unknown centre Mo
 Thanks in advance.
Chinmoy Ranjan 


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Hi,
  could anybody advise the feasibility of doing an energy minimization ofa
dinucleotide on Gaussian? Also what free/GPL'ed tools are available for
docking?

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> If there is a possibility of two minima on the PES which lie close to each
> other and one of them is very shallow, how one can find this shallow
> minimum?.

Generally, if you want to stay in a metastable minimum with low barrier:

- Make sure you start close to the minimum you're searching.
- If at all possible, get a good starting Hessian. If you use a lower 
level of theory for this, make sure that the minimum exists on this level.
- Restrict the step size.

> In Gaussian scf=(tight,qc) will be of help?
> 
You might have to make it tight. The convergence method (qc or otherwise)
shouldn't matter (as long as it converges at all).

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At 06:55 PM 3/7/2001 +0530, guest wrote:

>Dear CCLers,
>  I am a new user of gaussian. I am facing a problem in representing
>transision metals like molybdenum in the Z martix.I tried to represent the
>atom using the std atomic symbol : Mo
>  but The execution
>terminates saying: Unknown centre Mo
>  Thanks in advance.
>Chinmoy Ranjan
Since an offline reply failed (no such user as guest@iitk.ac.in), I'll 
reply to the list.
There is nothing inherently wrong with Mo in a gaussian Z matrix.  The 
problem must lie elsewhere in the input file.  Why don't you include the 
entire input file and someone (if not me) will be able to find the error(s).
Steve




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Samantha Jenkins wrote:
> 
> -- Dear CCL users,
> 
> Can you advise me as to suitable basis sets to use for solid
> (crystalline) SiO and GeO (NB not SiO2 or GeO2) for comparative analysis
> with the CRYSTAL98 code.
> 
> I will summarise replies,
> 
Hi Samantha
the starting point should be the CRYSTAL
web site at http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Activity/crystal

There is an Si basis set there used in SiO2. You will then 
need to reoptimise the outer shells of the basis set for use
in SiO. There is a discussion of this in section 4 of the
manual. If you optimise a basis set for the material
could you please send me a copy for inclusion on the
crystal web pages.

Many thanks
Adrian Wander

Dear Samantha

> There is an Si basis set there used in SiO2. You will then
> need to reoptimise the outer shells of the basis set for use
> in SiO. There is a discussion of this in section 4 of the
> manual. 

I was hoping to aviod having to do this 

> If you optimise a basis set for the material
> could you please send me a copy for inclusion on the
> crystal web pages.

OK,

Best wishes,

Samantha Jenkins


Prof. Bernard SILVI

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Dear Dr. Jenkins,

You can find such basis sets for pseudopotentials 
in J. Chem. Phys. 93, 7225 (1990)
   Eur. J. Mineral. 6, 7-16 (1994)

sincerely
Bernard SILVI

Dear Dr. Jenkins,

You can replace pseudo potential by standards core orbitals taken from
the
6-311G set.


Bernard SILVI


Dear Professor Silvi,

I have not done this type of thing before, I am not sure that the
properties of the derivatives of the charge density will be preserved.
But thankyou for the advice on the actual basis set to use. I am
relatively new to localised basis sets.



Best wishes,
Samantha Jenkins


The procedure is very safe, in fact we have used the valence orbitals
of Pople as a starting point of exponent optimization with
pseudopotentials.
Which kind of derivatives? If it is the gradient of the charge density 
(McMaster the home of AIM) no problem, this is calculated by Carlo
Gatti's 
program TOPOND98. If it is the derivatives with respect to nuclear
coordinates
this is not done by CRYSTAL98 (the Hellmann-Feynman theorem does not
hold for
localized basis functions).

Bernard SILVI




Dear Professor Silvi
Thankyou for the extra information. I do infact use Carlo Gatti's code
TOPOND98, I am interested in the derivatives higher than the gradient of
rho. CRYSTAL01 calculates the derivatives with respect to the nuclear
coordinates. I just obtained the referensec that you suggested, but they
are for SiO2 and GeO2 not SiO and GeO. so presumably it will OK to
optimise the outer expontents, whilst using the core form the bais set
that you suggested?

Thanks,

Best wishes,

Samantha jenkins


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Dear CCL members,

We have two clusters of intel based machines.

Cluster 1 
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 * ASUS P3B-F Motheroard
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We ran gaussian98 in parallel using linda on cluster 1 
using redhat 6.1 for several months and everything appeared 
to function perfectly.  Cluster 2 came with redhat 6.2, and 
initially everything seemed to be fine, so cluster 1 was upgraded
to 6.2.  Under 6.2 gaussian jobs fail on cluster 1 with
a relatively short mean time between failure.  We have
now discovered that cluster 2 also seems to have problems
under 6.2, but the mean time between failures is much
longer.  
The failures come in two types: 1) the calculation appears
to run but values are all garbage (the values print as "nan")
2) one of the processes dies, most commonly, the message
is process 0 failed to complete.

Before restoring 6.1 to the machine, does anyone know
what this problem is and how to fix it?

Thanks,

Alessandra


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Hello

We have a similar problem, we've just built an 8 node PIII cluster running
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However, if the calculation takes more than 1 hour, invariably, one of the
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BlankDear all,

There were some problems with the appearance of my e-mail as some people got
mysterious attachments which I did not send. Now I hope that my message will
be read without problems, and I will get some replies. Many people have
asked me to summarise replies, which I'll gladly do in case of any replies
(so far I had none).

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Artem

P.S. See the original question below:

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Dear CCLers,


I have the following question:


It is known that DFT within the LDA and GGA gives no band gap for such
transition metal oxides as FeO, CoO, NiO, which in fact are insulators (Mott
insulators). Are there any ideas about how serious this error is?


I suspect that there may be no real error: I understand that Kohn-Sham
eigenvalues and electronic density of states are, strictly speaking,
meaningless. Therefore, the absence of a band gap does not mean anything -
even more it does not mean that the material is a metal. There might be
other, more rigorous, ways to calculate the electrical conductivity from
DFT - but I am not aware of any such work. On the other hand, GGA and LDA
are known to reproduce many properties (elastic constants, equation of
state, magnetic ordering, magnetic moments) of these oxides really well - at
nearly the same level as they reproduce the properties, e.g., of MgO or
NaCl.


I would like to hear your ideas on:

1. The applicability of LDA/GGA to Mott insulators: can we use DFT at all,
what we can and what we cannot calculate.

2. If there is any error at all, how serious it is.

3. How to calculate the electrical conductivity from DFT. Were such
calculations done for any of the Mott insulators?

4. What is the best way of treating Mott insulators, especially at high
pressures? LDA+U seems to be not too reliable at high pressures.
Hartree-Fock would definitely give a band gap - but it gives it even for the
free electron case! What else does exist?


I will summarise replies on request.


Cheers,


Artem R. Oganov

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	Hi all,

		We have a five-node, heterogeneous cluster of pentium boxes. All of these 
have RH 6.0 but the kernel was updated to 2.2.16. Since we don't have pgf77 
Gaussian sent us the binaries, so we didn't compile the program. Linda 
version is 3.1.
		All is working fine. Many of our calculations take several days to 
converge and we didn't note any problem related to memory or phantom process.
		It seems that migrating from RH 6.0 to 6.2 would be the problem (I don't 
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Dear All:
    I met a problem when runing MD in Xplor. I used the following input
in the MD section, but the protein was blew like a balloon. I wonder
what wrong with it. Thanks in advance. 

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vector do (fbeta=100) (all)
dynamics verlet 
 nstep=50000
 timestep=0.001
  iasvel=maxwell
 firsttemperature=300
 nprint=25
 tcoupling=true
 tbath=300
trajectory=dynamic.dcd  nsavc=500 end
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Everyone running rh6.2 with the stock kernel (2.2.14 something) should
upgrade the kernel to either 2.2.16-3 or 2.2.17 something.
rh 2.2.14 will give random floating point errors.

this is a faq

Groeten, David.
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