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Orca

General information

Installed versions

Resource Version
Arrhenius 6.1.1
Dardel/cpe26.03 6.1.1

Read information about how to load this software in your environment by searching for Lmod module.

ORCA is an ab initio quantum chemistry program package that contains modern electronic structure methods including density functional theory, many-body perturbation, coupled cluster, multireference methods, and semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods. https://orcaforum.kofo.mpg.de/

Running ORCA in parallel

Note that for using multiple cores, the following must be included in the .inp:

%pal nprocs X end
https://orca-manual.mpi-muelheim.mpg.de/contents/essentialelements/parallel.html

Please consult the official ORCA documentation for more details