“…Pure silicon wafers on which the semiconductor industry has placed tremendous effort are now approaching nano sizes. In this context, the establishment of key structure‐property relationships associated with silicon clusters has attracted much interest 7–24. Bare silicon clusters, therefore, have been commonly used to validate new implementations of widely reviewed31–34 search algorithms such as basin‐hopping,23 genetic algorithm,7, 11, 12, 14, 19, 21, 24 and simulated annealing,15 as well as less known methods such as dual minima hopping,13, 17 and taboo search9 (which both avoid visiting twice the same minimum either by forbidding PES regions or by escaping them by a short Molecular Dynamics run), the big bang algorithm (that generates millions of supercompressed random structures before density‐functional‐based tight‐binding optimization),8 or the “GAGA” approach (which performs a global optimization using empirical potentials that are, at the same time, readapted to ab initio data at each newly found low‐lying minima) 10…”