PC GAMESS and Linux



    These www documents contain some information about installing and running under Linux the PC-specific version of the GAMESS package made by Alex Granovsky. The documents were created by a PC GAMESS user based on his individual experience, therefore, as usual, nothing is warranted to be error free.
    The links to the official sites of the GAMESS and PC GAMESS programs are shown below and in all cases they should be considered as a first choice up to date information sources.

GAMESS HOMEPAGE                  PC GAMESS HOMEPAGE

PC GAMESS under Linux HOMEPAGE


    The information is divided into several sections, the first one deals with the basic PC GAMESS and Wine installation procedures followed by miniFAQ which contains some comments concerning the most frequent problems we have encountered with. The last sections are devoted to performance optimization hints and benchmarking.


Installing and Running PC GAMESS under Linux


miniFAQ                  Wine Compilation



Performance Improving Hints

Single CPU Machines and Dual CPU SMP systems



Benchmarking Data

GAMESS/PC GAMESS benchmarks under Linux/WindowsNT
GAMESS/PC GAMESS benchmarks on Different CPUs: A Graphical Analysis
INTEL CPUs Benchmarks under Linux: GAMESS and PC GAMESS programs




     The author is grateful to Alex Granovsky for helpful comments and discussion.



April 18, 1999


(c) Valentin P. Ananikov

NMR Group
N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
http://nmr.ioc.ac.ru/Staff/AnanikovVP/