direct vs. in-core calculations

 >Richard,
 >
 >I beg to differ with your numbers.  Using N^4/4 one calculates:
 >
 ># functions 	memory
 >-----------	------
 >      100   ->   25 MW
 >      200   ->  400 MW
 >      300   -> 2025 MW
 >
 >However, the Gaussian manual says, and my own experience support it,
 >that for closed shell RHF calculations memory scales as N^4/8 plus
 >some additional memory, say 500,000 words.  (G92 User's Guide p.88.)
 >My own experience has been that the additional .5 MW is too small,
 >a more realistic number is 100N*N.  Using this formula one calculates:
 >
 ># functions 	memory
 >-----------	------
 >      100   ->   12.5 + 1 =   13.5 MW
 >      200   ->  200   + 4 =  204   MW
 >      300   -> 1012.5 + 9 = 1021.5 MW
 It has been a while since I have sat down and worked this out (so someone
 can correct me if I am wrong), but I believe the best approximation is:
 N^4/8 + N^3/4 + N^2/2
 This means that the table would be:
 # functions 	memory
 -----------	------
       100   ->   12.8 Mw
       200   ->   202.0 Mw
       300   ->   1019.3 Mw
 Generally, I use N^4/8 + N^3/4 and then add about 0.5 Mw onto the end. In
 gaussian, you can run the calculation with 'scf=incore' and if you have
 not given it enough memory, it will fail at the beginning of the scf. You
 can then look at the output file and see how much memory is needed (the
 error includes a line saying how many words are needed). Since it is at
 the beginning of the scf, the cpu time loss is minimal.
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