MOLDEN

Overview

MOLDEN is a pre- and post processing program of molecular and electronic structure, developed by G.Schaftenaar at CMBI, in the Netherlands.

MOLDEN 5.1 and 5.0 is available on the CSF. This is a binary install (i.e. no compilation involved).

Restrictions on use

There are no restrictions on access to MOLDEN but users should read and observe the Copyright notice.

Set up procedure

You will need to connect to the CSF using ssh -X to have the display exported to your local machine. You should then load one of the MOLDEN modulefiles:

module load apps/binapps/molden/5.1
module load apps/binapps/molden/5.0

Further information about how to start X-Windows and GUI applications on the CSF.

Running the application

The software is launched using the command molden.

If you need to run the software for more than a few minutes using significant CPU or memory resources you may be requested to run it via a compute node using qrsh.

Further info

Detailed information about using the software can be found on the MOLDEN website.

Updates

There have been no updates since the software was first installed in March 2011.