Re: CCL:GAMESS on a PARAGON



 Hi,
 	There is a copy of GAMESS (Iowa State) running on the
 Paragon at San Diego Supercomputer Center.    Maybe someone at
 SDSC can give you the benefit of their experience.
 	Do any of the simple (RHF single point, RHF optimization, etc.)
 test input decks run or does the calculation not even make it this far?
 I have not used the SDSC Paragon in a couple of months, but the last time we
 did I noticed problems with the effective core potential code (all-electron
 runs seemed fine).  Our ECP calcs. would actually launch and do the set-up
 and then bomb in the ECP portion of the code.
 	I think our problem was due to compiler optimization levels in the
 various ECP source modules which seem sensitive to this parameter.   I do know
 that we once ran the calcs. successfully some months  ago and that it seemed
 to me that problems with the ECP code popped up when the operating system was
 upgraded.  So perhaps the problem is OSF.   I didn't compile the code so I
 can't say, but perhaps these experiences might be something to consider in
 your case.
 	Good luck and let me know if you have any success.
 Tom
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