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nwchem


Information about the package, nwchem, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nwchem package is designed for, Delivering High-Performance Computational Chemistry to Science.


Package Name:

nwchem

Summary:

Delivering High-Performance Computational Chemistry to Science

Description:

NWChem aims to provide its users with computational chemistry tools that are scalable both in their ability to treat large scientific computational chemistry problems efficiently, and in their use of available parallel computing resources from high-performance parallel supercomputers to conventional workstation clusters. Please cite the following reference when publishing results obtained with NWChem: M. Valiev, E.J. Bylaska, N. Govind, K. Kowalski, T.P. Straatsma, H.J.J. van Dam, D. Wang, J. Nieplocha, E. Apra, T.L. Windus, W.A. de Jong, "NWChem: a comprehensive and scalable open-source solution for large scale molecular simulations" Comput. Phys. Commun. 181, 1477 (2010) There is currently no serial version built.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

6.6.27746

Release:

22.el6

Size:

7.1 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

ECL 2.0



Handy Yum Commands for nwchem


Control the nwchem package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install nwchem

This command will install nwchem on the server.

yum remove nwchem

This command will un-install nwchem on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nwchem, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove nwchem

This command will un-install nwchem on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nwchem when using the -y flag.

yum update nwchem

This command will update nwchem to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nwchem, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update nwchem

This command will update nwchem to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nwchem when using the -y flag.

yum info nwchem

This command will show you core information about the nwchem package.

yum deplist nwchem

This command will show you the dependencies for nwchem. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update nwchem

This command will check if there is an update waiting on nwchem. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.