Plane wave DFT- crystal optimizations


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Yes, NWChem's plane wave DFT capability can do geometry and unit cell optimizations for organic crystals. One of the tutorials http://nwchemgit.github.io/index.php/Release62:Plane-Wave_Density_Functional_Theory#NWPW_Tut... gives you some examples.

All the space groups available can be found here: http://nwchemgit.github.io/index.php/Release62:Geometry#Names_of_3-dimensional_space_groups

The scalability and parallel performance is extremely good. See some of the benchmark results at http://nwchemgit.github.io/index.php/Benchmarks#Parallel_performance_of_Ab_initio_Molecular_...