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General Guidelines for Chemistry Applications in regard to the Transition from Copper to other NCSA platforms

General Guidelines for Chemistry Applications in regard to the Transition from Copper to other NCSA platforms

 

Notes: 1. Link to the announcement of Copper retirement

                        2. Abe is intended for applications that can run up to 1,000 cores or more

                        3. Cobalt is intended for applications that use large memory and large number of processors (minimum 8)

                        4. Tungsten and Mercury are recommended for smaller processor jobs (less than 8).

(Please contact chemist@ncsa.uiuc.edu for further questions)

 

 

Cobalt

·           short wall clock time limit (18 hours max)

·           large memory (up to a total of 1.9 TB)

·           large cpu counts (up to 504)

 

Tungsten

·           long wall clock time limit (100 hours max)

·           small memory (up to 1.3 GB per processor)

·           large cpu counts (up to 1,024)

Mercury

·           long wall clock time limit (96 hours max)

·           large memory (up to 6 GB per processors)

·           large cpu counts (up to 1,200)

 

ABINIT

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

 

ADF

 

 

planned

 

will not be available

 

will not be available

 

AMBER

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

CHARMM (Harvard version)

 

 

 

each research group needs to obtain a license from the vendor

 

each research group needs to obtain a license from the vendor

 

each research group needs to obtain a license from the vendor

 

CPMD

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

DL_POLY

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

will be installed


GAMESS

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

 

Gaussian 03

 

 

  • installed
  • large memory jobs
  • does not scale beyond 16 processors

 

  • installed
  • small memory jobs (less than 2.6 GB)
  • does not scale beyond 2 processors

 

 

  • installed
  • medium memory jobs (up to 12 GB)
  • runs up to 2 processors

 

 

Gaussian 98

 

 

  • installed
  • large memory jobs
  • does not scale beyond 16 processors

 

  • installed
  • small memory jobs (less than 2.6 GB)
  • does not scale beyond 2 processors

 

 

  • installed
  • medium memory jobs (up to 12 GB)
  • runs up to 2 processors

 

Gromacs

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

Molden

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

Molpro

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

  • installed
  • only serial version available

 

 

NAMD

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

NBO

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

NWChem

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

QChem

 

 

planned

 

will not be available

 

will not be available

 

 

VASP

 

 

 

each research group needs to obtain a license from the vendor

 

each research group needs to obtain a license from the vendor

 

each research group needs to obtain a license from the vendor

 

 

VMD

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed

 

WIEN2k

 

 

installed

 

installed

 

installed