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Is there a free package with robust CASSCF functionality?
OpenMOLCAS
I'm surprised that the other two answers were given without yet any mention of OpenMOLCAS yet!
There is a recent paper[1] about it for which I happen to be one of the many co-authors.
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Is there a free package with robust CASSCF functionality?
ORCA
ORCA (forum). It is fully featured, efficient, and free for academics. The input is straightforward:
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Is ARM64 the next big thing?
It depends on what chips datacenters are using. If large data centers switch over to ARM-based processors, scientific computing will follow. Since most of our software is open source (or not far from ...
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What is a good replacement for Gaussian?
ORCA
Official website: https://orcaforum.kofo.mpg.de/app.php/portal
What is ORCA?
ORCA is a general-purpose quantum chemistry program package that features virtually all modern electronic structure ...
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What is a good replacement for Gaussian?
OpenMOLCAS
MOLCAS is now in it's 5th decade! The first version was written in the 1980s by the group of Bjorn Roos, one of history's giants in quantum chemistry. It can do many of the things most ...
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What software will allow me to combine two images?
Blender
I usually do 3D images with molecules using Blender. You can export your molecule 3D model with a chemistry visualization program (such as vmd or jmol) into Blender (I usually do it using OBJ ...
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What software will allow me to combine two images?
VMD can load STL files in text (ASCII) format. Here's how I produced the image below:
Downloaded STL file of teapot from Wikipedia.
This STL file is in binary format, so I used MeshLab to convert it ...
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What software will allow me to combine two images?
GIMP
Whereas Adobe Photoshop has become so famous as a photo editing software, that we often use the term "photoshopped" to describe an image that's been edited, it is very expensive and ...
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Which image format is best to use in a scientific paper?
For scientific papers in matter modeling, I always use vector graphics (e.g. .eps, .pdf, or ...
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Is there a free package with robust CASSCF functionality?
PySCF
Personally I would use pyscf, its not the most efficient or user friendly but it's free.
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What software is available to do molecular dynamics on Windows?
LAMMPS
LAMMPS provides pre-compiled Windows binaries. You can download them here.
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Is there a free package with robust CASSCF functionality?
NWChem
NWChem is a commonly use quantum chemistry software package with CASSCF included.
NWChem is free, as in both free coffee and free speech. It is under ECL-2.0.
It is written in FORTRAN (in case ...
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Is ARM64 the next big thing?
I'd expect that x86_64 will remain the architecture of choice for computing throughput for quite a while, and that there might even be a way to deliberately re-enable the Spectre/Meltdown ...
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What is a good replacement for Gaussian?
Psi4
Psi4 is a fully open-source quantum chemistry package that is gaining a lot of interest in my community (computational) combustion chemistry.
Here is the manual for the latest release: it has ...
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How to "get my feet wet" in Density Functional Theory by simulating a water molecule using Python
SlowQuant
In your question from 2015, you mentioned PyQuante and PySCF, but I saw no mention of SlowQuant in the question or in the multiple answers. I see that while writing this, someone else ...
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How to "get my feet wet" in Density Functional Theory by simulating a water molecule using Python
If you're set on using Python here are some options. I haven't used these codes so I can't speak to their ease of use.
PyQyante
PyQuante is a suite of programs that can not only do DFT but also ...
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What is a good replacement for Gaussian?
GAMESS
For many researchers, GAMESS is the "natural" substitute for GAUSSIAN. Developed and maintained by the group of prof. Gordon (also a banned GAUSSIAN user, see image below).
Official ...
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How should I organize and keep track of a huge number of calculations systematically?
Several computational workflow managers try to address exactly this problem in materials modeling. Besides helping orchestrating complex simulation workflows, they keep track of all the simulations (...
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Visualizing MD generated electron density cubes as trajectories
Jmol is completely capable to do what you want. It reads cube file format and works with scripts. Take a look at this link related to making movies.
The idea is:
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What software will allow me to combine two images?
Adobe Dimension
Adobe dimension is the premier paid software for 3-dimensional design. It can read in STL files and give them a texture, and incorporate the light source from the background light.
The ...
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How to create a lookup table of ϵ and σ values for Lennard-Jones Potentials?
Lennard-Jones combining rules
Most force fields define a single σ and ε for each atom and calculate them for combinations using Lorentz-Berthelot combining rules. These rules specify a arithmetic mean ...
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How can I learn LaTeX?
As a gentle, free (as in free beer and as in free speech) on-line introduction, I would recommend learnlatex.org.
At the start, you choose one of currently eight languages (Catalan, German, English, ...
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Is there a free package with robust CASSCF functionality?
BAGEL
The code is available through GitHub[1] and has been described in WIRES.[2]
The main advantages of BAGEL is that it has better memory and parallelization than MOLPRO. For example, MOLPRO (not ...
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How can we calculate the Gibbs free energy from first principles?
To extend your 0K energies to finite temperature, you essentially need to add up the different sources of entropy. Some examples as reviewed by Hickel et al. [1]:
Vibrational entropy (usually split ...
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What software is available to do molecular dynamics on Windows?
Run any Linux program on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
One interesting alternative is using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (more info at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-...
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What software is available to do molecular dynamics on Windows?
GROMACS
Instructions for installing GROMACS on Windows (even if you don't want to use Cygwin!) are here.
Advantages:
Free, and open-source.
Long history: First released in 1991, based on an earlier ...
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Is ARM64 the next big thing?
Any code that does not have core parts written in machine level code (assembly) is going to be portable to arm64 straight away; you just have to recompile the program. This is the whole point of ...
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Which image format is best to use in a scientific paper?
Complementary to the answer given by Nike Dattani with focus on file format, I would like to draw your attention to how you present the content visually in photos, schemes and diagrams known as ...
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How can I learn LaTeX?
I personally started with "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX", a PDF file that should come with most LaTeX distributions under the name "lshort.pdf". The document claims that ...
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DFT code for simulating thousands of atoms in a supercell
ONETEP https://www.onetep.org/ is a linear-scaling DFT code suitable and efficient for such large simulations. The main purpose of it, in the first place, was to lower the computational cost of ...
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