MOLPRO disk space requirements for conventional SCF/CCSD calculations

 
molecule point group basis set basis functions max disk usage
propane C2v AVQZ' 480 53.0 GB
acetone C2v AVQZ' 500 61.5 GB
ClNO Cs AV5Z+2d1f(Cl) 402 48.7 GB
cyclopropane C2v AVQZ' 420 30.9 GB
pyrrole C2v AVQZ' 550 89.8 GB
benzene D2h AVQZ' 660 96.0 GB
furan C2v AVQZ' 520 72.4 GB
B2F4 C2v AVQZ 480 47.3 GB
Si2H5+ no symm AVQZ'+2d1f(Si) 352 54.4 GB
CH3-CH·-CH3 C2 AVQZ' 450 76.5 GB
Si2H6+ C2h AV5Z'+2d1f(Si) 382 20.4 GB
CH3Cl Cs AV5Z'+2d1f(Cl) 440 72.2 GB

For purposes of table, 1 GB=1000 MB
Default integral thresholds used.

The point at which it becomes preferable to switch to a direct algorithm for the largest CCSD step is of course hardware-dependent. On our Compaq ES40 (with six 18GB UltraSCSI-2 disk striped in software through the Logical Storage Manager and AdvFS) jobs requiring over 50 GB total are probably best run direct.

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