Abstract
The Hamiltonian Algorithm combined with ab initio molecular orbital calculation is applied to the optimization of molecular structure. In order to carry out an optimization within a reasonable time frame even in the systems of many atoms, we perform parallel processing of the two-electron integrals by personal computer (PC) cluster consisting of 8 CPU's with Pentium 4 (3.0GHz) processor. We attempt to clear up the relation between the computation time and the number of CPU's focusing particularly on the reduction of the elapsed time. The computation time for single-point 3-21G calculations of the molecules of minor tranquilizer drugs having the benzodiazepin or the thienodiazepin backbone are measured. In the calculation of flutoplazepam (1:C19H16ClFN2O), the acceleration ratio of the CPU time and the elapsed time are 4.1 and 4.3 with 4 CPU's, 7.9 and 42.1 with 8 CPU's, respectively. Increasing the number of CPU's achieves an extensive improvement of the elapsed time more than the number of the CPU's used, because calculated two-electron integrals are able to be buffered on the memory of the PC cluster. The number of CPU's needed to buffer the two-electron integrals is estimated through a series of the calculations of the glycine oligomers.
