[molpro-user] Saving and re-using CI vectors

H. -J. Werner werner at theochem.uni-stuttgart.de
Tue Oct 10 07:47:48 BST 2006


The only way is to use in the restart

file,2,...
data,truncate,3000.2

This will truncate file 2 before record 3000.2. Normally
3000.2 should be the last record on file 2 after multi has run.

Regards
Joachim Werner

On Mo, 09 Okt 2006, Ioannis Kerkines wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I am trying to perform a CASSCF and CASPT2 calculation using the 
>configuration selection scheme. In particular, my first CASSCF 
>calculation looks like this:
>
>{multi;
>occ,19,5;
>closed,11,1;
>start,2140.2;
>save,,3000.2;
>wf,38,1,0;
>state,2;
>weight,0,1;}
>
>In the following CASPT2 calculation I use something like this:
>
>select,3000.2,,0.005,,;
>
>When I run the calculation for the first time, I get this message after 
>the end of the CASSCF output:
>
>Orbital configurations saved on 3000.2
>
>However, should I restart the calculation and recalculate this CASSCF 
>wavefunction, the record number is incremented by 1:
>
>Orbital configurations saved on 3001.2
>
>but the subsequent CASPT2 will select configurations from 3000.2.
>
>Is there a way to explicitly force Molpro to write the orbital 
>configurations on e.g. 3000.2, regardless if the job has been restarted 
>or not?
>
>Ioannis

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