What is Gaussian?

Gaussian is a general purpose computational chemistry software package initially released in 1970 by John Pople and his research group at Carnegie Mellon University. The name originates from Pople's use of Gaussian orbitals to speed up molecular electronic structure calculations as opposed to using Slater-type orbitals, a choice made to improve performance on the limited computing capacities of then-current computer hardware for Hartree–Fock calculations. 

Gaussian Availability

Gaussian 09 is available on the Windows, Linux platform for all ShanghaiTech faculty, staff and students.

To get started go to: http://software.lib.shanghaitech.edu.cn/Gaussian/（Within Campus only）

Please note that the software is licensed for use ONLY in the following conditions:

• Only current ShanghaiTech faculty, staff, or students may activate and use this software.

• The software may be installed on personally-owned computers as well as computers that are owned by ShanghaiTech University.

• When you are no longer associated with ShanghaiTech University you must uninstall this software.

• You are not allowed to copy, distribute, or reverse engineer this software.

  
  

If you have questions or need assistance, please get support from help@gaussian.com