NWChem: Past, Present, and Future
Creators: name: Aprà, E.
name: Bylaska, E. J.
name: de Jong, W. A.
name: Govind, N.
name: Kowalski, K.
name: Straatsma, T. P.
name: Valiev, M.
name: van Dam, H. J. J.
name: Alexeev, Y.
name: Anchell, J.
name: Anisimov, V.
name: Aquino, F. W.
name: Atta-Fynn, R.
name: Autschbach, J.
name: Bauman, N. P.
name: Becca, J. C.
name: Bernholdt, D. E.
name: Bhaskaran-Nair, K.
name: Bogatko, S.
name: Borowski, P.
name: Boschen, J.
name: Brabec, J.
name: Bruner, A.
name: Cauët, E.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Chuev, G. N.
name: Cramer, C. J.
name: Daily, J.
name: Deegan, M. J. O.
name: Dunning, T. H.
name: Dupuis, M.
name: Dyall, K. G.
name: Fann, G. I.
name: Fischer, S. A.
name: Fonari, A.
name: Früuchtl, H.
name: Gagliardi, L.
name: Garza, J.
name: Gawande, N.
name: Ghosh, S.
name: Glaesemann, K.
name: Götz, A. W.
name: Hammond, J.
name: Helms, V.
name: Hermes, E. D.
name: Hirao, K.
name: Hirata, S.
name: Jacquelin, M.
name: Jensen, L.
name: Johnson, B. G.
name: Jónsson, H.
name: Kendall, R. A.
name: Klemm, M.
name: Kobayashi, R.
name: Konkov, V.
name: Krishnamoorthy, S.
name: Krishnan, M.
name: Lin, Z.
name: Lins, R. D.
name: Littlefield, R. J.
name: Logsdail, A. J.
name: Lopata, K.
name: Ma, W.
name: Marenich, A. V.
name: del Campo, J. Martin
name: Mejia-Rodriguez, D.
name: Moore, J. E.
name: Mullin, J. M.
name: Nakajima, T.
name: Nascimento, D. R.
name: Nichols, J. A.
name: Nichols, P. J.
name: Nieplocha, J.
name: de la Roza, A. Otero
name: Palmer, B.
name: Panyala, A.
name: Pirojsirikul, T.
name: Peng, B.
name: Peverati, R.
name: Pittner, J.
name: Pollack, L.
name: Richard, R. M.
name: Sadayappan, P.
name: Schatz, G. C.
name: Shelton, W. A.
name: Silverstein, D. W.
name: Smith, D. M. A.
name: Soares, T. A.
name: Song, D.
name: Swart, M.
name: Taylor, H. L.
name: Thomas, G. S.
name: Tipparaju, V.
name: Truhlar, D. G.
name: Tsemekhman, K.
name: Van Voorhis, T.
name: Vázquez-Mayagoitia, Á.
name: Verma, P.
name: Villa, O.
name: Vishnu, A.
name: Vogiatzis, K. D.
name: Wang, D.
name: Weare, J. H.
name: Williamson, M. J.
name: Windus, T. L.
name: Woliński, K.
name: Wong, A. T.
name: Wu, Q.
name: Yang, C.
name: Yu, Q.
name: Zacharias, M.
name: Zhang, Z.
name: Zhao, Y.
name: Harrison, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Specialized computational chemistry packages have permanently reshaped the landscape of chemical and materials science by providing tools to support and guide experimental efforts and for the prediction of atomistic and electronic properties. In this regard, electronic structure packages have played a special role by using first-principledriven methodologies to model complex chemical and materials processes. Over the last few decades, the rapid development of computing technologies and the tremendous increase in computational power have offered a unique chance to study complex transformations using sophisticated and predictive many-body techniques that describe correlated behavior of electrons in molecular and condensed phase systems at different levels of theory. In enabling these simulations, novel parallel algorithms have been able to take advantage of computational resources to address the polynomial scaling of electronic structure methods. In this paper, we briefly review the NWChem computational chemistry suite, including its history, design principles, parallel tools, current capabilities, outreach and outlook.
description: This article appeared in volume 152, issue 18, page 184102 of the Journal of Chemical Physics. It can be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0004997