Integral storing

Solution of the Fock equations requires integrals involving the basis functions, either in pairs or four at a time. Some of these we have already seen. The simplest are the overlap integrals, stored in the form of the overlap matrix S, whose elements are given by equation (A.48) as... 

Both versions of TURBOMOLE offer a continuously adjustable SCF procedure that allows the user to tailor the fraction of the two-electron integrals stored on the disk to demands and limitations of the available hardware. Both the SCF and the HF gradient calculations are fully restartable—a feature that comes handy in hardware environments that experience not-so-infrequent system outages and interruptions. Semidirect MP2 energies and FIF energy second derivatives are available in TURBOMOLE together with a variety of built-in basis sets. 

Figure 3. (a) Conventional SCF frequencies using integrals stored on disk, (b) Direct SCF frequencies, avoiding storage of the two electron integrals. 

The SCF and CPHF equations may also be solved using integrals stored in main memory. This has the same advantages of speed and disadvantages of large memory requirements as for in-core SCF. 

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An excellent example of the benefits of improved inventory visibility is Nordstrom, a department store chain in the United States. The company was always very good at managing its inventories (IT systems played an important role here) but had historically separated its online inventories and its store inventories. In September 2009, the company started integrating store inventories onto its website. Customers are now able to access inventory no matter where it is available. If they prefer home delivery, Nordstrom can now use store inventory to serve them. If,... 

This concept of direct calculations in which integrals are not stored but used on the fly is discussed in ... 

If the database is not integrated in a database system, the database is called a flat-frle. As the name indicates, the data arc stored in a file that can be used directly by the user. 

Compounds are stored in reaction databases as connection tables (CT) in the same manner as in structure databases (see Section 5.11). Additionally, each compound is assigned information on the reaction center and the role of each compound in the specific reaction scheme (educt, product, etc.) (see Chapter 3). In addition to reaction data, the reaction database also includes bibliographic and factual information (solvent, yield, etc.). All these different data types render the integrated databases quite complex. The retrieval software must be able to recall all these different types of information. 

MP2 correlation energy calculations may increase the computational lime because a tw o-electron integral Iran sfonnalion from atomic orbitals (.40 s) to molecular orbitals (MO s) is ret]uired. HyperClicrn rnayalso need additional main memory arul/orcxtra disk space to store the two-eleetron integrals of the MO s. 

IlyperChem uses 16 bytes (two double-precision words) of storage for each electron repulsion integral. The first 8 bytes save thecom-pressed four indices and the second S bytes store the value of the integral. Each index lakes 16 bits. Thus the maximum number of basis fiinctions is 65,535. This should satisfy all users of IlyperChem for the foreseeable future. 

RalTenetti [R. C. RalTenetli. Chem. I hys. Lett. 20, iiiS.bfl 97iS ) proposed another way to store the two-electron integrals in ah iniiio calculations. RatTenetti rewrote (93) on page 2.31 to read... 

So only the two-electron integrals wilh p. > v. and I>aand [p.v > 7.a need to he computed and stored. Dp.v.la on ly appears m Gpv, and Gvp, w hereas ih e original two-electron integrals con tribute to other matrix elemen is as well. So it is m iich easier to form ih e Fock matrix by using the siipermairix D and modified density matrix P th an the regular format of the tw O-electron in tegrals and stan dard den sity m atrix. 

Since the first formulation of the MO-LCAO finite basis approach to molecular Ilartree-Pock calculations, computer applications of the method have conventionally been implemented as a two-step process. In the first of these steps a (large) number of integrals — mostly two-electron integrals — arc calculated and stored on external storage. Th e second step then con sists of the iterative solution of the Roothaan equations, where the integrals from the first step arc read once for every iteration. 

I STORES SHAPE FUNCTIONS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES AT REDUCED INTEGRATION POINTS(SCRATCH FILE)... 

The approximation to the closed integral improves as the number of iterations increases up to a point. The actual values in Table 1-1 may be system specific, that is, different hardware and software combinations may give slightly different results because of different ways of storing numbers. One is tempted to think of approximations as getting better without limit, the sum approaching the integral... 

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