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PySCF Electronic Structure

Hartree–Fock, DFT, TDDFT, optimization, frequencies, and charges with PySCF / GPU4PySCF

Hardware and price

Price per run

What a typical run reserves from your wallet: the catalog's expected runtime on each piece of hardware × your plan's per-second rate. Larger inputs reserve more, and you're charged only for the seconds the job actually runs.

PySCF Electronic Structure: reservation per run, USD
HardwareTypical runtimeBasicStarterProEnterprise
CPU4 h$2.02$1.15$0.72$0.43
Nvidia T42 h$4.10$2.95$2.38$1.80
Nvidia L42 h$5.62$4.03$3.17$2.38
Nvidia A10Default2 h$7.70$5.47$4.39$3.31
Nvidia L40S2 h$13.68$9.79$7.78$5.83
Nvidia A100, 40 GB2 h$14.69$10.51$8.42$6.34
Nvidia A100, 80 GB2 h$17.50$12.53$10.01$7.49
Nvidia H1002 h$27.65$19.73$15.77$11.88
Nvidia H2002 h$31.75$22.68$18.14$13.61
Nvidia B2002 h$43.78$31.25$24.98$18.79

In workflows

Chain it with other steps.

Each input and output has a data kind, so the builder only connects steps that fit.

Inputs

  • Molecules (list)SDF, MOL, MOL2, MOLBLOCK

Outputs

  • ArchiveZIP
  • MoleculesSDF
  • TableCSV

References

The method behind it.

  1. Qiming Sun, Timothy C. Berkelbach, Nick S. Blunt et al. (2018). PySCF: the Python-based simulations of chemistry framework. WIREs Computational Molecular Science. doi:10.1002/wcms.1340 (opens in a new tab)
  2. Qiming Sun, Xing Zhang, Samragni Banerjee et al. (2020). Recent developments in the PySCF program package. The Journal of Chemical Physics. doi:10.1063/5.0006074 (opens in a new tab)

Run via API

Submit it from your own code.

Use an API key from your account. The estimate uses your plan's rates; submitting reserves that amount from your wallet.

# Estimate the reservation for your plan (payload fields: see the API reference)
curl -X POST https://api.cognichem.com/api/v1/jobs/estimate \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $COGNICHEM_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"job_type": "pyscf-electronic", "resource": "a10", "payload": {}}'

# Submit (retrying with the same Idempotency-Key never submits twice)
curl -X POST https://api.cognichem.com/api/v1/jobs/submit \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $COGNICHEM_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"job_name": "pyscf-electronic-1", "job_type": "pyscf-electronic", "resource": "a10", "payload": { ... }}'
Payload fields and examples in the docs