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Alex Granovsky
gran@classic.chem.msu.su

Official Firefly binaries version 7.1.G (i.e., 7.1.16), build # 5618
were released to the public December 4, 2009 and are available
from the Downloads section of the PC GAMESS/Firefly homepage at MSU.

List of main new features:

• Multiple minor bugfixes and improvements.
  
• More agressive set of default settings for better performance and stability.
  
• Improved performance on AMD Phenom/Phenom II/Barcelona/Shanghai/Istanbul processors.
  
• Improved performance of MP2 Energy/Energy Gradient method=1 code.
  
• Improved DLC engine.
  
• Improved code for relaxed PES scans using DLCs.
  
• Improvements to P2P communication interface.
  
• Completely redesigned threading model for better multithreaded performance and CUDA interoperability.
  
• Improved MP4 code with CUDA support.
  
• Program name changed to Firefly.
  

Regards,
Alex Granovsky