Knowledge Bank

Even small chemically bound molecules have $105$ or more bound states. Calculations of this size represent a grand challenge to conventional computers. We have parallelized DVR based program suite DVR3D(1) to give PDVR3D(2). The PDVR3D suite runs on the Cray T3D/T3E at Edinburgh University(U.K.), the IBM SP2 at Daresbury(U.K.) and on the Cray T3E at CINECA (Italy). As a first application of PDVR3D, we are studying the water molecule using two newly available global potentials due to Varandas(3) and Ho and Rabitz(4). We have calculated the ro-vibrational levels of water up to dissociation limits for both potentials. Studies of bound and quasibound ro-vibrational states of $H3+$, using a realistic global potential(5), are also being performed.