The modification of a general purpose code for quantum mechanical calculations of molecular properties(Q-Chem) to use a graphical processing unit (GPU) is reported. A 4.3x speedup of the resolution-of-the-identity second-order M
ller-Plesset perturbation theory (RI-MP2) execution time is observed in single pointenergy calculations of linear alkanes. The code modification is accomplished using the compute unified basiclinear algebra subprograms (CUBLAS) library for an NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics card. Furthermore,speedups of other matrix algebra based electronic structure calculations are anticipated as a result of using asimilar approach.