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| 2 | /** \page overview Overview
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| 4 | The Scientific Computing toolkit (SC) provides C++ class libraries for
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| 5 | scientific computation. Included are classes for managing memory, saving
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| 6 | and restoring the state of objects, reading objects from an input file,
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| 7 | parallel communication, matrix algebra, among others.
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| 9 | Class libraries supporting quantum chemistry applications are provided with
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| 10 | the full distribution of SC. Also included is the Massively Parallel
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| 11 | Quantum Chemistry program (MPQC) which is built upon these libraries.
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| 13 | MPQC and SC are works-in-progress. They are experimental codes that are
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| 14 | used to apply new computational approaches to problems in scientific
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| 15 | programming in general and, in particular, to quantum chemistry. Thus,
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| 16 | this manual is incomplete. Furthermore, some of the classes in the
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| 17 | distribution may be on the verge of obsolescence and others may be
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| 18 | unfinished work that are intended to provide new functionality in later
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| 19 | releases.
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| 21 | The development of SC has been driven by the development of the Massively
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| 22 | Parallel Quantum Chemistry (MPQC) program. While, currently, MPQC and SC
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| 23 | are distributed together, the SC code is problem-domain independent. For
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| 24 | example, the utility classes provided in src/lib/util do not require the
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| 25 | code in src/lib/math or src/lib/chemistry and the src/lib/math classes do
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| 26 | not require src/lib/chemistry.
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| 27 |
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| 28 | MPQC and SC run on Unix compatible workstations (Intel/Linux, SGI/IRIX IBM
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| 29 | RS/6000), symmetric multi-processors (Intel/Linux, SGI/IRIX), and massively
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| 30 | parallel computers (IBM SP, Intel Paragon).
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| 32 | */
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