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This is the LAMMPS (5 Oct 2007) software package.
LAMMPS stands for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel
Simulator.
Copyright (2003) Sandia Corporation. Under the terms of Contract
DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains
certain rights in this software. This software is distributed under
the GNU General Public License.
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LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics simulation code designed to
run efficiently on parallel computers. It was developed at Sandia
National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy facility, with
funding from the DOE. It is an open-source code, distributed freely
under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
The primary author of the code is Steve Plimpton, who can be emailed
at sjplimp@sandia.gov. The LAMMPS WWW Site at
www.cs.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/lammps.html has more information about the
code and its uses.
The LAMMPS (5 Oct 2007) distribution includes the following files
and directories:
README this file
LICENSE the GNU General Public License (GPL)
bench benchmark problems
doc documentation
examples simple test problems
lib libraries LAMMPS can be linked with
potentials interatomic potential files
src source files
tools pre- and post-processing tools
Point your browser at any of these files to get started:
doc/Manual.html the LAMMPS manual
doc/Section_intro.html hi-level introduction to LAMMPS
doc/Section_start.html how to build and use LAMMPS