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 5.9.2 and 7.3 are available on CSF3 and were compiled with gcc 11.4.0
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 (MAC-OS and Linux) or by using MobaXterm on Windows. You should then load one of the MOLDEN modulefiles:
module load apps/gcc/molden/7.3 module load apps/gcc/molden/5.9.2
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 srun-x11.
# Start a 1-hour interactive (with graphics) shell srun-x11 -p interactive -t 0-1 module purge module load apps/gcc/molden/7.3 molden
Further info
Detailed information about using the software can be found on the MOLDEN website.
Updates
Version 7.3 was compiled for the CSF3 05/2025
Version 5.9.2 was released on 20/12/2018