<div dir="ltr">Dear Linfeng,<div><br></div><div>a few general remarks:</div><div>1) CP2K is not the most efficient tool for small molecules. For instance, it does a lot of integrations over cells in real and reciprocal space, and for a small molecule the cell is almost everywhere empty.</div><div>2) CP2K does not use internal coordinates for optimisation. This has to do with the fact that it's mostly meant for large periodic systems. Gaussians' Berny algorithm does use internal coordinates and is very efficient for small systems.</div><div>3) It's very likely that you 150 steps have not change the geometry significantly. </div><div>4) It's not completely clear where this 10000 times come from. It may have to do with how you compile and run your applications.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, there's no specific problems with optimisers and efficiency. It's about applicability of tools for specific purposes. If you going to work with small molecules, you'd better stick to programs made for them, i.e. Gaussian. CP2K is meant for large and/or periodic systems.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Vladimir<br><br>пятница, 15 мая 2020 г., 2:51:51 UTC+2 пользователь Linfeng Gan написал:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When I optimized 1-butene molecular at
B3lYP/6-311G** level, it took much much longer than gaussian16 did. <span> </span>I had test optimizer CG, BDGS and LBFGD,
nothing better. It seems the optimizers have some efficiency issues. All three
optimizer had taken at least 150 optimization steps to get the final structure,
but the initial structure had been optimized by gaussian. <span> </span><span> </span>How
could I improve that?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Linfeng</span></p>
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