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Zessin

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Up to a million dummy atoms
« on: August 07, 2009, 01:24:46 PM »
Hi!

Is there a way to tell the program, that dummy atoms don't count as atoms?
I wanted to do a calculation on up to a million dummy atoms, but define dies with "too many atoms". Non-dummy atom numer is 8-60, so the normal calculation works fine.

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Re: Up to a million dummy atoms
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2010, 06:03:23 PM »
Why do you need 1 million dummy atoms?

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Re: Up to a million dummy atoms
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2010, 10:46:58 PM »
I want to do NICS-calculations on a grid.

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Re: Up to a million dummy atoms
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2010, 11:08:48 AM »
Hi,

dummies are always treated as atoms and can have charge, mass, a basis set, etc. So with the huge binary version you are currently limited to 1400 atoms. A larger version can be requested from COSMOlogic, but I am not sure if it is technically possible to really have a million dummy atoms. By the way: Do you need a basis set at the dummies? NICS 'far' away from the molecule or 'not so far away' but without basis set are most likely not giving any reasonable data, I think ???

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Uwe