From chemistry-request -8 at 8- server.ccl.net Wed Apr 2 06:51:55 2003 Received: from celebris04.cetem.gov.br ([200.20.105.10]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h32Bpsf04279 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:51:54 -0500 Received: by correio.cetem.gov.br with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 08:58:22 -0300 Message-ID: <216FE3CA3D4DD611AE2600105AD16BDFD56AF1[ AT ]correio.cetem.gov.br> From: Ian Hovell To: "'chemistry[ AT ]ccl.net'" Subject: vibrational analysis using hyperchem Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 08:58:13 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by server.ccl.net id h32Bptf04280 Dear CCLers, I have recently come across a problem. I have a molecule which is fairly large which I have carried out an single point abinitio analysis using direct SCF calculation Hyperchem states that it is using 787 basis functions (I'm using 3-21g basis set) and 1296 primative gausians in the calculations. This seems to run without any problems and took a little over 4 days. Afterwards I ran a vibrational analysis which seems to have come to a halt after 10 days computing, although stated to the contary by the computer, and for two days now has remained on its final (50) iteration. Will it finish? The log file does not give me any help. Is there anything which I can do? I have written to the support people at Hyperchem but they have not replied. I am using a Pentium IV with 768 MB ram and 80 GB of hard disk space. Ian Hovell - Ph.D. NUCLEO DE MODELAGEM MOLECULAR-NMM Centro de Tecnologia Mineral - CETEM Ministerio da Ciência e da Tecnologia- MCT Avenida Ipê, No 900 - Cidade Universitaria Ilha do Fundão Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil CEP 21941-590 tel 00 55 (xx) 3865 - 7216 Fax 00 55 (xx) 22602837 ou 2290-4286 e-mail hovell -8 at 8- cetem.gov.br