The recommended practices and procedures for use of the John C. Slater Lab. This man page explains in detail several common and fundamental tasks with which every computational scientist must be concerned. These practices and procedures have been developed at QTP by a large group of extremely clever and inventive scientists over a period of nearly 17 years. They have proven very efective and efficient for those who made the small investment of paying attention to them. We hope you will find them useful.
Some practices are essentially rules.
That is, if you do not follow these practices, various automated system maintenance processes will delete your files and kill your jobs. The QTP computer system is a shared resource, which makes it necessary to have some rules. Because we are a compact and flexible group, we can and will always consider any request for making an exception. Contact a system manager or Dr. Erik Deumens, Director for Computing. Running a job which requires a lot of CPU, RAM and scratch disk.