From owner-chemistry.,at,.ccl.net Thu Jun 27 09:29:00 2024 From: "Frank Neese neese^kofo.mpg.de" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Announcement of the release of ORCA 6.0 Message-Id: <-55184-240627092643-15790-yl89/vkKpCRn5d/eqto+/A,,server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Frank Neese" Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:26:41 -0400 Sent to CCL by: "Frank Neese" [neese,,kofo.mpg.de] Dear CCL community! The ORCA quantum chemistry program suite has grown into one of the largest and most widely used quantum chemistry packages world-wide and we are most grateful for your ongoing support and enthusiasm! ORCA gives academic users (for free; download from https://lnkd.in/eF6nxi98) and industrial users (via licenses obtained from FAccTs; https://www.faccts.de/) to state of the art methodology that is an exceptionally powerful companion to experimental studies. After almost exactly 3 years of exceptionally hard work, the development team is very excited to announce that ORCA 6.0.0 will be released on Thursday, July 25th, 2024 As for ORCA 5 before, there will be a *two day* online release event on July 25th and 26th, 2024. The release event will start with an overview of the changes in the code, benchmarks and the new features followed by more detailed talks that highlight and explain the new features. Since ORCA has tens of thousands of users world-wide, we will stream the release event twice: one time in the morning (probably 8:00 CET) which will allow our users in the western hemisphere to attend and one time in evening (probably around 18:00 CET) such that our users in the eastern hemisphere can attend. As last time, the talks will be pre-recorded and the respective experts will be online for vivid and lively online discussion during the stream. We will post the details on the online access to the meeting will be made available at the ORCA forum in due course and will also announce it on social media. ORCA 6 is a major turning point for the ORCA project and will pave the way into the future. Hence, please stay tuned and we hope that we see many of you at the release event! Best wishes, Frank Neese on behalf of the ORCA development team.