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Davide Vanossi
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   Davide

On Thu Jan 21 '10 6:57pm, Pasquale Morvillo wrote
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>On Thu Jan 21 '10 6:09pm, Davide Vanossi wrote
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>>Dear All, probably is a silly question but anyway...If I run a firefly serial job (on a single core) of my quad-core CPU Workstation using  in the $SYSTEM group MWORDS=512 (about 4 GB) I obtain this indication (when exetyp=check is selected):

>>512000000 WORDS OF MEMORY UNAVAILABLE

>>The Workstation (Win XP Pro 64bit is installed) is equipped with 12 GB of DDR3 RAM (and a paging file of 12 GB is used as virtual memory). Unfortunately I can’t run that job with a lesser amount of memory (this indication was directly obtained from firefly output when MWORDS=256 was used).

>We have discussed this question some time ago.
>Read the following thread:

>http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35b50db491oc-6908-750+00.htmhttp://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C35b50db491oc-6908-750+00.htm

>in particular the detailed explanation of Dr A. Granovsky:

>http://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C34df668afbHW-6911-1138+00.htmhttp://classic.chem.msu.su/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/gran/gamess/forum/?C34df668afbHW-6911-1138+00.htm

>regards