NWChem

NWChem is a computational chemistry code based on gaussian basis functions or plane-waves.

Environment variable

The default command to start NWChem is nwchem PREFIX.nw > PREFIX.out. You can change that by setting the environment variable ASE_NWCHEM_COMMAND.

Example

Here is an example of how to calculate optimize the geometry of a water molecule using PBE:

$ asec H2O optimize -c nwchem -p xc=PBE
LBFGS:   0  16:17:29    -2064.914841       1.9673
LBFGS:   1  16:17:31    -2064.963074       0.9482
LBFGS:   2  16:17:32    -2064.976603       0.1425
LBFGS:   3  16:17:33    -2064.977216       0.0823
LBFGS:   4  16:17:35    -2064.977460       0.0010
$ ase-gui H2O.traj@-1 -tg "a(1,0,2),d(0,1)"
102.577881445 1.00806894632