nwchem VS elmerfem

Compare nwchem vs elmerfem and see what are their differences.

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nwchem elmerfem
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460 1,093
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9.7 9.7
12 days ago 1 day ago
Fortran Fortran
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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nwchem

Posts with mentions or reviews of nwchem. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Molecular dynamics for Metal-Ligand interactions
    1 project | /r/comp_chem | 30 Dec 2022
    I still use VMD sometimes but I don't use GAMESS anymore. It is a bit difficult to make recommendations without knowing your knowledge level and the operating system that you are using. If you are comfortable with Python, you could start with Psi4. If you know how to compile programs you can try building and running NWChem. Orca is also popular but I have not used it myself. If you are at a university you may have access to other proprietary quantum chemistry programs such as Gaussian or ADF. You can choose any of the programs available to you, and then follow the tutorials and examples in the manual. Once you understand the basics it is easy to learn how to use any program as they all share common features.
  • Orbital analysis NWCHEM
    1 project | /r/comp_chem | 9 Mar 2022
  • Nwchem On M1 Macs
    1 project | /r/comp_chem | 17 Feb 2021
    Yes, it works. See https://github.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/issues/320 and https://github.com/nwchemgit/nwchem/pull/326. I am an NWChem developer and M1 owner.
  • Nwchem on M1 macs
    1 project | /r/comp_chem | 5 Jan 2021
    Okay, so I have no direct experience with the M1 and its specific feature set, but NWC does run with arm devices so it should not be problem (here is a link to compile on a mac MacOSNWChem . Also NWC is Open Sauce so just grab a copy and try it out.

elmerfem

Posts with mentions or reviews of elmerfem. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nwchem and elmerfem you can also consider the following projects:

xtb - Semiempirical Extended Tight-Binding Program Package

moose - Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment

psi4 - Open-Source Quantum Chemistry – an electronic structure package in C++ driven by Python

Kratos - Kratos Multiphysics (A.K.A Kratos) is a framework for building parallel multi-disciplinary simulation software. Modularity, extensibility and HPC are the main objectives. Kratos has BSD license and is written in C++ with extensive Python interface.

HartreeFock - A program implementing the Hartree–Fock (also post-HF: MP2, CCSD(T), CIS and TDHF/RPA)/self-consistent field method (also DIIS) with Gaussian orbitals

FEM - ⚡🧠A finite element Python implementation

awesome-python-chemistry - A curated list of Python packages related to chemistry

mfem - Lightweight, general, scalable C++ library for finite element methods

DFTK.jl - Density-functional toolkit

voikko-rs - Rust bindings for the Voikko library

Q6 - Q6 Repository -- EVB, FEP and LIE simulator.

libmesh - libMesh github repository