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BROCHURE-2011-Web.Pdf Parallel Quantum Solutions WHO ARE WE? Parallel Quantum Solutions (PQS) manufactures parallel computers with integrated software for high-performance computational chemistry. Our offerings have • an exceptional performance/price ratio • are fully configured for parallel computation straight out of the box. Our current product, the QuantumCube™, is aimed primarily at ab initio modeling, but we also offer semiempirical, molecular mechanics and dynamics methods. Our software enables the user to optimize chemical structures and transition states and to predict and display (now optionally including 3D Stereo) properties such as molecular orbitals, charge distributions, electrostatic potentials, vibrational modes and to simulate IR, Raman, VCD and NMR spectra. The high computational demand of ab initio calculations requires parallel processing to achieve reasonably fast turnaround. 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To meet these high demands all QuantumCube™ clusters are preconfigured for parallel operation and, in combination with the PQS software suite and preinstalled user accounts, are ready for use “straight out of the box.” In addition to our own software, the QuantumCubeTM comes with a wide range of freely available open source computational chemistry software which is installed by default, such as the PSI3 program for high accuracy calculations on small molecules and the NAMD parallel dynamics package. We have arrangements with several third-party software vendors to preinstall their programs at no extra charge other than the standard list price of the software. These include: • ADF/BAND • MolPro • COSMOtherm • Q-Chem • Jaguar • PCModel • Gaussian • Spartan We will make our best effort to preinstall any other packages you might require. 2 Parallel Quantum Solutions QuantumCube™ turnkey computational chemistry clusters are designed for office use. 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This speeds up scratch disk access during calculations. All other partitions are mirrored for data integrity. Our standard configuration provides at least 2 GB of memory per CPU, with at least 4 GB per CPU in the advanced configuration. All QuantumCubeTM clusters are configured with the latest stable Linux OS, currently CentOS 5.5 (which is fully Red Hat Linux compatible) and a full set of Linux utilities, PQS cluster management tools, MPI and PVM parallel environments and the SGE queuing system. Additional queuing systems can be set up on request. All QuantumCube™ systems come preinstalled with a perpetual license to the full suite of PQS software. A set of customer-specified user accounts is preinstalled, so users can set up and submit jobs minutes after unpacking the unit. PQS cluster management tools simplify common cluster tasks such as powering up/down, adding users, changing passwords, monitoring node activity, managing the system clocks and data backup. 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Please check our website www.pqs- chem.com/machines.html for up-to-date information. 5 Parallel Quantum Solutions StereoStationTM Workstations Thanks to recent advances in both monitor and projector technologies, we are now able to offer a new 3D stereo enabled line of workstations - the StereoStationTM. The stereo effect is achieved through the use of active shutter glasses operating at 120Hz refresh rate. The glasses are synchronized with the display, either a projector or a monitor, producing two distinct images, one for each eye. The visual effect is quite breathtaking and is far superior to the earlier technologies of passive polarized and anaglyph (red/blue) glasses. A number of scientific applications which use OpenGl libraries have been capable of displaying stereo images for several years; however the cost of the necessary hardware has until now been prohibitive. Our systems are preconfigured to run the stereo- enabled version of the PQS suite. Stereo-enabled PyMol is also installed. Additionally we offer support in installing third-party applications on our machines. MODELS StereoStationTM 2 person SS4-2800-I74-W2P Intended to be used as a small personal workstation, capable of executing serial PQS jobs and stereo visualization of the results for up to 2 people. 6 Parallel Quantum Solutions StereoStationTM 10 person SS4-2800-I74-W10P Intended for a classroom or research environment, capable of executing serial PQS jobs and stereo visualization of the results for up to 10 people. StereoQuantumStationTM 2 person SS16-2000-OM8-L2P Intended for use as a large scale workstation or add-on to an existing PQS QuantumCubeTM. A 16-core, 64 GB of memory Linux node, capable of running a large fully parallel PQS calculation. Results can be viewed in stereo by up to 2 people. 7 Parallel Quantum Solutions WARRANTY & SUPPORT We offer a full, 1 year warranty on all hardware components. 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For more details see our website at www.pqs-chem.com. 8 Parallel Quantum Solutions SOFTWARE PQS has three main software offerings: PQS – our flagship, primarily ab initio software suite offering highly efficient, fully parallel implementations of all the major calculational methods along with some features unique to PQS SQM – an add-on module for scaling ab initio Hessian matrices, providing excellent agreement with experimental vibrational spectra PQSMol – our graphical user interface which includes a model builder, input preparation, parallel job submission and post-job visualization and display All PQS software can be purchased inexpensively independently of our hardware. PRICING Prices are for an annual license. Academic PQS: $125 PQSMol: $100 SQM: $40 Industrial PQS: $250 PQSMol: $200 SQM: $80 9 Parallel Quantum Solutions PQS Version 4.0 Software Features • Restricted and unrestricted Hartree-Fock and DFT energies and gradients, including several initial wavefunction guess options • Wide range of exchange-correlation functionals: VWN, B88, OPTX, LYP, P86, PW91, PBE, B97, HCTH, B3LYP, make up your own functional ... • Fast and accurate pure DFT energies and gradients for large basis sets using the FTC method • Efficient geometry optimization for minima and transition states using delocalized internal, Cartesian or Z-matrix coordinates; special coordinates for optimization of molecular clusters • Enforced geometry optimization in the presence of an applied external force • Full range of geometrical constraints including fixed distances, planar bends, torsions and out-of-plane bends between any atoms in the molecule and frozen (fixed) atoms.
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