GAMESS is a
computational chemistry software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
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program and stands for General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System. The original Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange (QCPE) code of GAMESS split in 1981 and now the three version differ considerably:
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GAMESS (UK)
General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS-UK) is a computer software program for computational chemistry. The original code split in 1981 into GAMESS-UK and GAMESS (US) variants, which now differ significantly. Many of the ...
, a fork of the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System computational chemistry software program
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GAMESS (US)
General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System (GAMESS (US)) is computer software for computational chemistry program. The original code started on October 1, 1977 as a National Resources for Computations in Chemistry project. In 1981, t ...
, a fork of the General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System computational chemistry software program
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Firefly (computer program)
Firefly, formerly named PC GAMESS, is an ab initio computational chemistry program for Intel-compatible x86, x86-64 processors based on GAMESS (US) sources. However, it has been mostly rewritten (60-70% of the code), especially in platform-spe ...
or PC GAMESS, an ab initio computational chemistry program based on GAMESS (US) sources
Computational chemistry software
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