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@awvwgk awvwgk released this 01 Feb 11:59
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Feature release with new GPU acceleration, improved ALPB parameters, better optimizer settings and options, and general performance improvements for GFN1-xTB and GFN2-xTB.
Thanks to Sebastian Spicher (@sespic), Marcel Müller (@marcelmbn), Hagen Neugebauer (@haneug), Thomas Rose (@Thomas3R), Marcel Stahn (@MtoLStoN), Julius Stückrath (@jbstueckrath), Patrick Atkinson (@patrickatkinson), Cyrille Lavigne (@clavigne) and Igor Gerasimov (@FulgurIgor) for contributing to this version.

  • Bugfix: Basename detection failed for paths with path delimiter (#362) 🪲
  • Bugfix: FOD flag (--fod) did not set electronic temperature correctly (#382) 🪲
  • Bugfix: Sign error in unbiased hessian calculation (#388) 🪲
  • Bugfix: IR intensities were calculated incorrectly from dipole gradients (#395) 🪲
  • Bugfix: Fix out-of-bounds access for basis set in IPEA-xTB calculations (#399) 🪲
  • Bugfix: Commandline interface for sequential build was inconsistent with OpenMP build (#421) 🪲
  • Bugfix: Point charge embedding was not initialized correctly and skipped embedding calculations (#422) 🪲
  • Bugfix: Negative charges were detected as command line flags (#423) 🪲
  • Improved 2D to 3D conversion with GFN-FF (#351)
  • GPU version of xtb is available with Nvidia HPC SDK (#342, #352, #407, #420)
  • Backports of performance improvements from GPU routines to CPU implementations (#425)
  • Allow adjusting of spring exponents in distance constraints (#357)
  • Allow scaling of dispersion energies / gradients for the GFN-FF (#359)
  • Improved ALPB implicit solvation parameters (#372, #387)
  • Turbomole driver now attempts to cache results via gradient file (#377)
  • Adjusted optimization threshold for level “lax” for Turbomole DCOSMO-RS driver (#383)
  • Allow reading static RMSD bias from file (#390)
  • Use averaged convergence scheme in L-ANCopt and RF-ANCopt to deal with noisy energy surfaces (#394)
  • Refactored hessian implementation to stabilize build and allow higher compiler optimization (#417)

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