Michael W. Schmidt

TL;DR: A description of the ab initio quantum chemistry package GAMESS, which can be treated with wave functions ranging from the simplest closed‐shell case up to a general MCSCF case, permitting calculations at the necessary level of sophistication.

TL;DR: A summary of the technical advances that are incorporated in the fourth major release of the Q-Chem quantum chemistry program is provided in this paper, covering approximately the last seven years, including developments in density functional theory and algorithms, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) property evaluation, coupled cluster and perturbation theories, methods for electronically excited and open-shell species, tools for treating extended environments, algorithms for walking on potential surfaces, analysis tools, energy and electron transfer modelling, parallel computing capabilities, and graphical user interfaces.

TL;DR: GAMESS as discussed by the authors is a suite of electronic structure and QM/MM methods (including open-and closed-shell Hartree-Fock which has been essentially ignored here) that can be run on virtually any computer, cluster, massively parallel system or for that matter a desktop Mac or PC.

TL;DR: The multiconfiguration self-consistent field method offers the most general approach to the computation of chemical reactions and multiple electronic states and localized orbitals are convenient both for selection of the appropriate active space and for understanding the computed results.

TL;DR: A discussion of many of the recently implemented features of GAMESS (General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System) and LibCChem (the C++ CPU/GPU library associated with GAMESS) is presented, which include fragmentation methods, hybrid MPI/OpenMP approaches to Hartree-Fock, and resolution of the identity second order perturbation theory.