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Update ORCA doc to match version 4.2
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Expand Up @@ -12,25 +12,20 @@ research group level, provided compliance with the *ORCA End User License
Agreement*. This means that interested users can download the precompiled
executables from the ORCA web page themselves, and run the code on Stallo.

* Homepage: https://orcaforum.cec.mpg.de/

* Manual: https://orcaforum.cec.mpg.de/OrcaManual.pdf

* Download: https://cec.mpg.de/orcadownload/index.php
* Homepage: https://orcaforum.kofo.mpg.de


Installation
============

1) Go to the ORCA download page and accept the terms of use by filling in your credentials
2) Download the Linux x86-64 complete archive and place it somewhere in your home folder
3) Extract the tarball

.. code-block:: bash
$ tar xjvf orca_4_0_0_2_linux_x86-64_openmpi202.tbz
The following has been tested for version 4.2.1 on Stallo:

4) The ``orca`` executable is located in the extracted archive and should work out of the box
1) Go to the ORCA forum page and register as user
2) Wait for activation e-mail (beware of spam filters...)
3) Log in and click on **Downloads** in the top menu
4) Download the Linux x86-64 complete archive and place it somewhere in your home folder
5) Extract the tarball: ``$ tar xf orca_4_2_1_linux_x86-64_openmpi314.tar.xz``
6) The ``orca`` executable is located in the extracted archive and should work out of the box


Usage
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.. code-block:: bash
$ module load OpenMPI/2.0.2-GCC-6.3.0-2.27
$ module load OpenMPI/3.1.3-GCC-8.2.0-2.31.1
$ /full/path/to/orca orca.inp >orca.out
A very simple example input file is provided below. Please refer to the ORCA
manual for details on how to run the code for your application.
Note that the calculation should not be launched by ``mpirun``, but you should use
the input keyword ``nprocs``. A very simple example input file is provided below.
Please refer to the ORCA manual (can be downloaded from the same download page
on the ORCA forum) for details on how to run the code for your application.


ORCA input example
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