Computational chemistry at the petascale: Are we there yet?

We have run computational chemistry calculations approaching the Petascale level of performance (~ 0.5 PFlops). We used the Coupled Cluster CCSD(T) module of the computational chemistry code NWChem to evaluate accurate energetics of water clusters on a 1.4 PFlops Cray XT5 computer.

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