Free and open source software for computational chemistry education

S Lehtola, AJ Karttunen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of waiting, computational chemistry for the masses is finally here. Our brief
review on free and open source software (FOSS) packages points out the existence of …

n2v: A density‐to‐potential inversion suite. A sandbox for creating, testing, and benchmarking density functional theory inversion methods

Y Shi, VH Chávez, A Wasserman - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
From the most fundamental to the most practical side of density functional theory (DFT),
Kohn–Sham inversions (iKS) can contribute to the development of functional approximations …

The general atomic and molecular electronic structure system (GAMESS): novel methods on novel architectures

F Zahariev, P Xu, BM Westheimer, S Webb… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The primary focus of GAMESS over the last 5 years has been the development of new high-
performance codes that are able to take effective and efficient advantage of the most …

ipie: A Python-Based Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo Program with Flexibility and Efficiency on CPUs and GPUs

FD Malone, A Mahajan, JS Spencer… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report the development of a python-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC)
program, ipie, with preliminary timing benchmarks and new AFQMC results on the …

The tale of HORTON: Lessons learned in a decade of scientific software development

M Chan, T Verstraelen, A Tehrani, M Richer… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
HORTON is a free and open-source electronic-structure package written primarily in Python
3 with some underlying C++ components. While HORTON's development has been mainly …

LibERI—A portable and performant multi-GPU accelerated library for electron repulsion integrals via OpenMP offloading and standard language parallelism

M Alkan, BQ Pham, D Del Angel Cruz… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A portable and performant graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated library for electron
repulsion integral (ERI) evaluation, named LibERI, has been developed and implemented …

Fermi. jl: a modern design for quantum chemistry

GJR Aroeira, MM Davis, JM Turney… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Approximating molecular wave functions involves heavy numerical effort; therefore, codes
for such tasks are written completely or partially in efficient languages such as C, C++, and …

Modern architectures and their impact on electronic structure theory

MS Gordon, TL Windus - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
In 1929, PAM Dirac asserted that “The underlying physical laws necessary for the
mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus …

QuantumDynamics. jl: A modular approach to simulations of dynamics of open quantum systems

A Bose - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A simulation of the non-adiabatic dynamics of a quantum system coupled to dissipative
environments poses significant challenges. New sophisticated methods are regularly being …

A task-based approach to parallel restricted Hartree–Fock calculations

D Poole, JL Galvez Vallejo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In recent years, parallelism via multithreading has become extremely important to the
optimization of high-performance electronic structure theory codes. Such multithreading is …