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The fonnal scaling behavior of DFT has already been noted to be in principle no worse dian N. where N is die number of basis functions used to represent the KS orbitals. This is better diaii HF by a factor of N, and very substantially better than other methods that, like DFT, also include electron correlation (see Table 7.4). Of course, scaling refers to how time increases widi size, but says nothing about the absolute amount of time for a given molecule. As a rule, for programs that use approximately die same routines and algorithms to carry out HF and DFT calculations, the cost of a DFT calculation on a moderately sized molecule, say 15 heavy atoms, is double that of the HF c dculation with the same basis set. 

Another interesting possibility is die use of plane waves as basis sets in periodic infinite systems (e.g., metals, crystalline solids, or liquids represented using periodic boundary conditions). While it takes an enormous number of plane waves to properly represent the decidedly aperiodic densities that are possible within the unit cells of interesting chemical systems, the necessary integrals are particularly simple to solve, and dius diis approach sees considerable use in dynamics and solid-state physics (Dovesi et al. 2000). 

As a dual point with regard to efficiency, note diat SCF convergence in DFT is sometimes more problematic than in HF. Because of die similarities between the KS and HF orbitals, diis problem can often be very effectively alleviated by using die HF orbitals as an initial guess for die KS orbitals. Because die HF orbitals can usually be generated quite quickly, the extra step can ultimately be time-saving if it sufficiently improves the KS SCF convergence. 

We will briefly discuss the state of the art for these areas in the following and highlight some of the recent developments where relevant. 

Since its original formulation by Kohn and Sham in 1965 [10], DFT has been used to address a vast number of problems of increasing complexity and magnitude. The successful application of DFT to larger systems is driven by the continued development and extension of DFT itself, and the well-known exponential increase in hardware performance [11]. 

We have chosen to illustrate the computational advances with a survey of the research carried out by one of us during the last decade on palladium-catalyzed allyhc alkylation. 

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In the near future the technique will be further evaluated using ultrasonic signals from natural defects, e.g., fatigue cracks. The performance measure and the parameter optimization procedure wilt also be refined in order to obtain a computationally efficient implementation, easy to use for a trained operator. 

In general, multiple-time-step methods increase computational efficiency in a way complementary to multipole methods The latter make use of regularities in space, whereas multiple-time-stepping exploits regularities in time. Figure 2 illustrates the general idea ... 

Here we want to document that FAMUSAMM actually provides an enhanced computational efficiency both as compared to SAMM as well as to the reference method which is characterized by exact evaluation of the Coulomb sum. To that aim we have carried out a series of test simulations for systems of... 

The procedure is computationally efficient. For example, for the catalytic subunit of the mammalian cAMP-dependent protein kinase and its inhibitor, with 370 residues and 131 titratable groups, an entire calculation requires 10 hours on an SGI 02 workstation with a 175 MHz MIPS RIOOOO processor. The bulk of the computer time is spent on the FDPB calculations. The speed of the procedure is important, because it makes it possible to collect results on many systems and with many different sets of parameters in a reasonable amount of time. Thus, improvements to the method can be made based on a broad sampling of systems. 

The computational efficiency is a major advantage of CSP and CI-CSP, and we expect that in the forthcoming few years CSP-based methods will be extensively used as practical tools for the study of an increased range of dynamical processes in large systems. 

G3. G3 theory (Curtiss et al., 1998) is very similar to G2 except that certain refinements have been added to improve accuracy and computational efficiency. The Pople group has devised a new basis function for the largest calculation called, appropriately enough, GSlarge. 

As in the STO-LG basis, the 2s and 2p functions share the exponents for computational efficiency. The contraction coefficients djs, d2s , d2s , d2p , and d2p and the contraction exponents aisp , and a2sp were explicitly varied until the energy of an atomic SCFcalculation reached a minimum. Unlike the STO-NG basis. 

Q Zheng, R Rosenfeld, C DeLisi, DJ Kyle. Multiple copy sampling in protein loop modeling Computational efficiency and sensitivity to dihedral angle perturbations. Protein Sci 3 493-506, 1994. 

A. Karma, W.-J. Rappel. Phase field method for computationally efficient modeling of solidification with arbitrary interface kinetics. Phys Rev E 55 R3017, 1996 A. Karma, W.-J. Rappel. Quantitative phase field modeling of dendritic growth in two and three dimensions. Phys Rev E 57 4111, 1998. 

Both methods produce good results for this problem. The CBS-4 value is all the more remarkable when the method s computational efficiency is taken into consideration. 

The original literature reference contains coefficients and expansion coefficients for 2s and 2p orbitals. For computational efficiency, the 2s and 2p orbitals are taken to have the same exponents. 

Extensive quantum chemical calculations have been reported for sulfur-rich compounds in the past two decades. These calculations were used to investigate molecular structures and spectroscopic properties, as well as to understand the nature chemical bonding and reaction mechanism. Many high-level ab initio calculations were used for interpretation of experimental data and for providing accurate predictions of molecular structures and thermochemical data where no reliable experimental values are available. In recent years, density functional calculations have been extensively tested and used on many first- and second-row compounds. These proven DFT methods look promising for larger systems because for their computational efficiency. 

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