MPQC REVISION HISTORY
Following is a brief summary of changes made in each release of MPQC.
* 2006-03-22: MPQC-2.3.1
o MCSearch added for cubic interpolation during quasi-Newton line
searches.
o Added KMLYP method.
o Updated libtool to version 1.5.22.
o SumDenFunctional returns correct HF exchange coefficient when using
nested ACM functionals. This could change the results from certain,
uncommon inputs.
o Other minor bug fixes, enhancements, and documentation improvements.
* 2005-10-16: MPQC-2.3.0
o Common Component Architecture interfaces for energies and
integrals are now available.
o Updated to a more recent version of the EMSL basis sets. This
will change results in many cases.
o Polarization consistent basis sets added.
o Test suite inputs and results have been moved from a separate
file into the main release.
o "make" targets are now available to automatically check results.
o "mpqcrun" can be used to simply starting MPQC runs, particulary
parallel runs.
o Complementary Auxiliary Basis Set (CABS) version of the MP2-R12
method [see Chem. Phys. Lett. 395, 190 (2004)].
o MP2-R12/A' method with split virtual space (virtual orbitals
constructed from a separate Gaussian basis).
o Novel Brillouin condition-free versions of the MP2-R12/A' method.
o A new exception infrastructure has been added.
o Numerous numerical improvements, compiler bug work-arounds,
and bug fixes.
o Checkpoint files made with earlier versions of MPQC utilizing
more than one processor will not work 2.3.0 or later versions.
* 2004-12-18: MPQC-2.2.3
o Documention errors and omissions corrected.
o Command man pages generated automatically.
o bison and flex are no longer required.
o Will now compile with MPICH2.
o Maintain symmetry in optimizations of large molecules.
o Improved ease of builds within the source directory.
o Fixed density value computations.
o Port to Cray X1 (correctness of results not checked).
o Port to G5/OS X (correctness of results not checked).
* 2004-04-28: MPQC-2.2.2
o Can now compile with GCC 3.4.0.
o Switched from ieee_{set,get}_fp_control to fenv functions.
o More architecture types recognized, including pentium4.
o The getnwbas.pl and parsenwbas.pl work with recent versions
of the EMSL Basis Set Database.
o Libtool flags are now accessible with sc-config.
o Psi 3 compatibility classes have been updated.
* 2003-12-26: MPQC-2.2.1
o Fixed a problem where FORTRAN files caused builds of shared
libraries to fail.
o Duplicate identifiers for AMD64 shared library builds have been fixed.
o The SONAME of this release is 5:1:0. GCC 3.2 is the official C++ ABI.
* 2003-12-04: MPQC-2.2.0
o (ABS) MP2-R12 method added (Edward Valeev).
o ARMCIMemoryGrp added.
o Better threading parallelism.
o The SONAME of this release is 5:0:0. GCC 3.2 is the official C++ ABI.
* 2003-09-26: MPQC-2.1.5
o Fixes for shared library support (Michael Banck)
o Minor documentation updates.
* 2003-07-22: MPQC-2.1.4
o Fixes a problem that occurs when optimizing with GCC 3.3.
o Now works with more recent versions of bison, flex, and autoconf.
o Upgraded libtool to 1.5 (this requires recent versions of
automake/autoconf).
o Bug in the charge computation for Extended Huckel is fixed.
o sc-config --cppflags should always give the correct include path now.
o The SONAME of this release is 4:1:0. GCC 3.2 is the official C++ ABI.
* 2003-01-10: MPQC-2.1.3
o Fixes a problem that occurred with recent versions of bison. Note
however that a new problem has emerged in bison 1.875 which is not
fixed in this release.
o Applied changes to make RPM's easier to build.
+ The installroot=path assignment can be given on the make command
line to specify a temporary install root.
+ --with-sc-includedir=dir can be used to specify an installation
directory for the include files.
* 2002-10-14: MPQC-2.1.2
o Bumped SONAME to 4:0:0. GCC 3.2 is the official C++ ABI for
4:0:0. See the --with-build-id configuration documentation for more
info.
o Remove use of MPI-2 1-sided as this has proved inadequate.
o Minor documentation updates.
* 2002-04-21: MPQC-2.1.1
o Support recent versions of bison and flex.
* 2002-04-18: MPQC-2.1.0
o Everything is now in the "sc" namespace.
o Fixed a problem causing redundant output lines with gcc3.
o Added extended Huckel theory guesses.
o Added configure options:
+ --enable-always-use-mpi
+ --with-default-parallel={mpi2,mtmpi}
o Begin conversion to use exceptions instead of abort.
o Improved MP2 gradient code performance.
o Greater than 2GB support for memory keywords.
o Symbolic notation for memory keyword supported. Examples: 2KB, 1MB,
1.3GB, 8KIB, 1MIB, 6GIB.
o Thread safety issues addressed in MessageGrp classes.
o Obsolete code removed.
o Fixed accuracy problem affecting mainly single point DFT gradients.
* 2002-03-01: MPQC-2.0.4
o Fixed a checkpoint/restart bug introduced in 2.0.2.
* 2002-02-17: MPQC-2.0.3
o Problems using newer versions of bison were fixed. Versions up to
1.33 should work.
o Avoid duplicate MemoryGrp constructor calls.
* 2002-01-24: MPQC-2.0.2
o Several configure problems were fixed.
o The keep_guess_wavefunction option was added. This is used to allow
the guess wavefunction to be reused for lower symmetry displacements
during a frequency calculation.
o Unrestricted wavefunctions will now correctly recompute occupations
when displaced into lower symmetry.
o A stack overflow for very large calculations was fixed.
* 2002-01-08: MPQC-2.0.1
o Incorporate some of Michael Banck's Debian porting work.
o Improve usability on parallel machines without pthreads.
o Minor portability enhancements.
* 2001-10-04: MPQC-2.0.0
o Add support for KAI KCC.
o Put template instantiations in libraries for Compaq C++.
* 2001-08-31: MPQC-2.0.beta.6 html build 2
o Inheritance and collaboration diagrams added to documentation.
* 2001-08-29: MPQC-2.0.beta.6
o Make sure MPI_Finalize gets called.
o Fixed scpr.
o Fixed parallel DFT printing.
o Added --enable-production configure option.
o Improved MP2 performance.
* 2001-07-10: MPQC-2.0.beta.5
o Added Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization of basis functions.
o Changed the following basis sets to use 5D instead of 6D:
6-311++G(2d,2p), 6-311++G(3df,3pd), 6-311++G**.
o Fixed bugs in MTMPIMemoryGrp exposed by MPI/Pro 1.6.3.
o Improved multi-threaded MP2 code.
* 2001-04-06: MPQC-2.0.beta.4
o Major API changes
+ Use RTTI for dynamic casts
+ Uses smart pointer templates instead of macros
+ Requires ISO standard C++ compiler
+ May require patched flex
o Clean up geometries when symmetry is specified
* 2001-03-08: MPQC-2.0.beta.3
o Object directory can be a subdirectory of the source directory.
o Documentation updates.
o --enable-stl fixed for standard C++ compilers.
* 2001-03-03: MPQC-2.0.beta.2
o New, simplified input format is supported in addition to the
objected-oriented input.
o Many improvements to the Density Functional Theory code. It is now
ready for production use.
o Documentation converted to doxygen.
o Supports ISO 14882 standard C++. MPQC now might not work with some
older compilers.
o Nonstandard symmetry frames now work.
o All HF and DFT objects can use multi-threading.
* 2001-02-25: MPQC-1.2.5
o "make install_devel" fixed for unified source and object dirs.
o Symmetry detection in presence of ghost atoms fixed.
o GCC 2.95.2 now can be used to compile MPQC. GCC 3.0 and above will
not work (this will be fixed in next major release).
o Nonstandard symmetry frames do not work. They are detected and will
cause an abort (this will be fixed in next major release).
o "make -j2" problems fixed.
* 2000-09-07: MPQC-1.2.4
o MTMPIMessageGrp will be linked into MPQC if threads and MPI are
available.
* 2000-01-31: MPQC-1.2.3
o install_devel will now install scconfig.h
* 1999-11-04: MPQC-1.2.2
o Turned off core dumps. These could cause problems on the IBM SP.
* 1999-10-24: MPQC-1.2.1
o Fix minor problem preventing a smooth compile on AIX.
* 1999-10-20: MPQC-1.2
o The 1.1 input files will not work with 1.2
o Ported to IRIX and IRIX64
o Documentation improvements
o "make interface" no longer needed
* 1999-08-19: MPQC-1.2alpha6
o Use DOC++ for all documentation
o Bug fixes and ports to glibc 2.1 and gcc 2.95
o Canonical orthogonalization option
* 1998-10-23: MPQC-1.2alpha5
o Multi-threaded CLHF and MP2 gradients
o Removed all use of libg++
* 1998-05-25: MPQC-1.2alpha4
o Save/restore and result accuracy bug fixes
o Reducing memory requirement for integrals
o configure improvements
* 1998-04-03: MPQC-1.2alpha3
o Faster integrals with arbitrary angular momentum
o Finite displacement Hessian can be used as guess Hessian
o Checkpoint override capability added
* 1997-10-30: MPQC-1.2alpha2
o Fix a bug affecting optimizations
* 1997-10-29: MPQC-1.2alpha1
o Checkpoint files have directory information that can be used to
selectively restore objects
o Class hierarchy changed under SCF
o The molecule class was cleaned up
o Many other bug fixes and enhancements
* 1997-6-11: MPQC-1.1.2
o Fixed SYSV IPC configuration problem on sgi-irix platforms.
o Fixed sample inputs in HTML user manual.
* 1997-5-23: MPQC-1.1.1
o GNU-CC specific construct removed.
* 1997-5-22: MPQC-1.1.0
