bsse energy: rtdb put of nopen failed


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Hi,

Please apply the following patch:
1) cd $NWCHEM_TOP
2) wget http://nwchemgit.github.io/images/Tddft-bsse.patch.gz
3) gzip -d Tddft-bsse.patch.gz
4) patch -p0 < Tddft-bsse.patch
5) recompile
This will result in an executable that lets you do the calculation you specified. You will also have to change the basis set block. At the moment you are only specifying basis functions for the dimer atoms. You will also need to specify basis functions for the ghost atoms in the monomer calculations:

   basis
bqC library C sto-3g
bqH library H sto-3g
bqO library O sto-3g
bqN library N sto-3g
* library sto-3g
end

The next thing to worry about is what your calculation actually means. E.g. with 5 states (ground state + 4 excited states) on each monomer you can generate 25 different dimer states. As implemented the code will calculate the same number of states for the monomers and the dimer. Mapping the combinations of monomer states to dimer states is not something the code can do automatically so you will have to do this by hand. I assume that can be expected to work only with weak interactions between the monomers (but otherwise the BSSE is probably not the most important error anyway).

Finally the functional you are using includes Grimme's dispersion corrections. These are based on a force field that has been optimized for the ground state only. Also, you will need the patch http://nwchemgit.github.io/images/Disp-bsse.patch.gz that fixes the combination of Grimme dispersion corrections and BSSE calculations.

Huub