CCL: winGAMESS

 Sent to CCL by: "Nuno A.G. Bandeira" [nuno.bandeira_._ist.utl.pt]
 The new winGAMESS development version R5 (Nov. last year) is now online with
 accompanying utilities, test files and manuals. Embedded programs like Tinker
 and VB2000 are in it. You may download it from the GAMESS site as usual.
 I've been getting emails from several people regarding a few points and I think
 I should restate this:
 1- winGAMESS is a complete port of the current GAMESS release (R5) for Windows.
 IT IS NOT PC-GAMESS! Do not mistake both. They are entirely different and
 unrelated in terms of user interface and operability. The official GAMESS
 website is I think entirely clear on this point and I advise potential users to
 know this in advance. Do not try to run the binary gamess.06.exe from the
 command line as you do with pcgamess, it will not work. A DOS batch script needs
 to be generated first by use of batmaker. Let the *.bat script worry about
 commands, all you have to do is click (use the mouse, wrist and finger, it's
 that simple)
 As I say again this is not pcgamess... read the readme.rtf file before you do
 anything.
 2- Cygwin libraries are, as far as I've read, unable to handle SysV calls in
 clusters or parallel processing. As such parallel use of winGAMESS with the new
 ddi libraries is disabled. The old ddi code is however usable for parallel
 Windows boxes (prof. Ernst Schumacher can tell you more about this). But a
 special compilation for this is required (email me if you can't do it by
 yourself).
 3- The binaries were compiled for SSE instruction set processors (-msse,
 -mfpmath=sse) so they should work with the most recent processors from
 intel/amd. They have been tried and tested on my laptop pentium M and in a P4
 with hyperthreading.
 Special thanks to Grigoriy Zhurko for his continuing help. Check out his program
 Chemcraft at www.chemcraftprog.com for visualization of gamess outputs.
 Hope you enjoy it.
 Regards,
 --
 Nuno A. G. Bandeira, AMRSC
 Graduate researcher and molecular sculptor
 Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry Group,
 Faculty of Science
 University of Lisbon - C8 building, Campo Grande,
 1749-016 Lisbon,Portugal
 http://cqb.fc.ul.pt/intheochem/nuno.html
 Doctoral student * IST,Lisbon