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<H3>1. Introduction
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</H3>
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<P>These sections provide an overview of what LAMMPS can and can't do,
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describe what it means for LAMMPS to be an open-source code, and
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acknowledge the funding and people who have contributed to LAMMPS over
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the years.
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1.1 <A HREF = "#1_1">What is LAMMPS</A><BR>
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1.2 <A HREF = "#1_2">LAMMPS features</A><BR>
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1.3 <A HREF = "#1_3">LAMMPS non-features</A><BR>
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1.4 <A HREF = "#1_4">Open source distribution</A><BR>
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1.5 <A HREF = "#1_5">Acknowledgments and citations</A> <BR>
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<A NAME = "1_1"></A><H4>1.1 What is LAMMPS
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</H4>
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<P>LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code that models an ensemble
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of particles in a liquid, solid, or gaseous state. It can model
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atomic, polymeric, biological, metallic, granular, and coarse-grained
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systems using a variety of force fields and boundary conditions.
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<P>For examples of LAMMPS simulations, see the Publications page of the
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<A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A>.
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<P>LAMMPS runs efficiently on single-processor desktop or laptop
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machines, but is designed for parallel computers. It will run on any
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parallel machine that compiles C++ and supports the <A HREF = "http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi">MPI</A>
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message-passing library. This includes distributed- or shared-memory
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parallel machines and Beowulf-style clusters.
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<P>LAMMPS can model systems with only a few particles up to millions or
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billions. See <A HREF = "Section_perf.html">this section</A> for information on LAMMPS
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performance and scalability, or the Benchmarks section of the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS
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WWW Site</A>.
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</P>
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<P>LAMMPS is a freely-available open-source code, distributed under the
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terms of the <A HREF = "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU Public License</A>, which means you can use or
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modify the code however you wish. See <A HREF = "#1_4">this section</A> for a brief
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discussion of the open-source philosophy.
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<P>LAMMPS is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new
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capabilities, such as new force fields, atom types, boundary
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conditions, or diagnostics. See <A HREF = "Section_modify.html">this section</A> for
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more details.
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</P>
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<P>The current version of LAMMPS is written in C++. Earlier versions
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were written in F77 and F90. See <A HREF = "Section_history.html">this section</A>
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for more information on different versions. All versions can be
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downloaded from the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A>.
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</P>
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<P>LAMMPS was originally developed under a US Department of Energy CRADA
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(Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) between two DOE labs
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and 3 companies. It is distributed by <A HREF = "http://www.sandia.gov">Sandia National Labs</A>.
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See <A HREF = "#1_5">this section</A> for more information on LAMMPS funding and
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individuals who have contributed to LAMMPS.
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<P>In the most general sense, LAMMPS integrates Newton's equations of
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motion for collections of atoms, molecules, or macroscopic particles
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that interact via short- or long-range forces with a variety of
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initial and/or boundary conditions. For computational efficiency
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LAMMPS uses neighbor lists to keep track of nearby particles. The
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lists are optimized for systems with particles that are repulsive at
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short distances, so that the local density of particles never becomes
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too large. On parallel machines, LAMMPS uses spatial-decomposition
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techniques to partition the simulation domain into small 3d
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sub-domains, one of which is assigned to each processor. Processors
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communicate and store "ghost" atom information for atoms that border
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their sub-domain. LAMMPS is most efficient (in a parallel sense) for
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systems whose particles fill a 3d rectangular box with roughly uniform
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density. Papers with technical details of the algorithms used in
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LAMMPS are listed in <A HREF = "#1_5">this section</A>.
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<A NAME = "1_2"></A><H4>1.2 LAMMPS features
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</H4>
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<P>This section highlights LAMMPS features, with pointers to specific
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commands which give more details. If LAMMPS doesn't have your
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favorite interatomic potential, boundary condition, or atom type, see
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<A HREF = "Section_modify.html">this section</A>, which describes how you can add it to
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LAMMPS.
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</P>
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<H4>General features
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</H4>
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<UL><LI> runs on a single processor or in parallel
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<LI> distributed-memory message-passing parallelism (MPI)
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<LI> spatial-decomposition of simulation domain for parallelism
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<LI> open-source distribution
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<LI> highly portable C++
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<LI> optional libraries used: MPI and single-processor FFT
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<LI> easy to extend with new features and functionality
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<LI> runs from an input script
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<LI> syntax for defining and using variables and formulas
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<LI> syntax for looping over runs and breaking out of loops
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<LI> run one or multiple simulations simultaneously (in parallel) from one script
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</UL>
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<H4>Particle and model types
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</H4>
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<P>(<A HREF = "atom_style.html">atom style</A> command)
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<UL><LI> atoms
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<LI> coarse-grained particles (e.g. bead-spring polymers)
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<LI> united-atom polymers or organic molecules
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<LI> all-atom polymers, organic molecules, proteins, DNA
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<LI> metals
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<LI> granular materials
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<LI> coarse-grained mesoscale models
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<LI> extended spherical and ellipsoidal particles
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<LI> point dipolar particles
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<LI> rigid collections of particles
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<LI> hybrid combinations of these
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<H4>Force fields
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</H4>
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<P>(<A HREF = "pair_style.html">pair style</A>, <A HREF = "bond_style.html">bond style</A>,
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<A HREF = "angle_style.html">angle style</A>, <A HREF = "dihedral_style.html">dihedral style</A>,
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<A HREF = "improper_style.html">improper style</A>, <A HREF = "kspace_style.html">kspace style</A>
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commands)
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<UL><LI> pairwise potentials: Lennard-Jones, Buckingham, Morse, Yukawa, soft, class 2 (COMPASS), tabulated
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<LI> charged pairwise potentials: Coulombic, point-dipole
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<LI> manybody potentials: EAM, Finnis/Sinclair EAM, modified EAM (MEAM), embedded ion method (EIM), Stillinger-Weber, Tersoff, AI-REBO, ReaxFF, COMB
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<LI> electron force field (eFF)
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<LI> coarse-grained potentials: DPD, GayBerne, REsquared, colloidal, DLVO
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<LI> mesoscopic potentials: granular, Peridynamics
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<LI> bond potentials: harmonic, FENE, Morse, nonlinear, class 2, quartic (breakable)
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<LI> angle potentials: harmonic, CHARMM, cosine, cosine/squared, class 2 (COMPASS)
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<LI> dihedral potentials: harmonic, CHARMM, multi-harmonic, helix, class 2 (COMPASS), OPLS
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<LI> improper potentials: harmonic, cvff, class 2 (COMPASS)
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<LI> polymer potentials: all-atom, united-atom, bead-spring, breakable
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<LI> water potentials: TIP3P, TIP4P, SPC
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<LI> implicit solvent potentials: hydrodynamic lubrication, Debye
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<LI> long-range Coulombics and dispersion: Ewald, PPPM (similar to particle-mesh Ewald), Ewald/N for long-range Lennard-Jones
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<LI> force-field compatibility with common CHARMM, AMBER, OPLS, GROMACS options
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<LI> handful of GPU-enabled pair styles
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<P> hybrid potentials: multiple pair, bond, angle, dihedral, improper potentials can be used in one simulation
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overlaid potentials: superposition of multiple pair potentials
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</P>
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<H4>Atom creation
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</H4>
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<P>(<A HREF = "read_data.html">read_data</A>, <A HREF = "lattice.html">lattice</A>,
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<A HREF = "create_atoms.html">create_atoms</A>, <A HREF = "delete_atoms.html">delete_atoms</A>,
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<A HREF = "displace_atoms.html">displace_atoms</A>, <A HREF = "replicate.html">replicate</A> commands)
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</P>
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<UL><LI> read in atom coords from files
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<LI> create atoms on one or more lattices (e.g. grain boundaries)
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<LI> delete geometric or logical groups of atoms (e.g. voids)
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<LI> replicate existing atoms multiple times
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<LI> displace atoms
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</UL>
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<H4>Ensembles, constraints, and boundary conditions
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</H4>
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<P>(<A HREF = "fix.html">fix</A> command)
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</P>
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<UL><LI> 2d or 3d systems
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<LI> orthogonal or non-orthogonal (triclinic symmetry) simulation domains
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<LI> constant NVE, NVT, NPT, NPH, Parinello/Rahman integrators
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<LI> thermostatting options for groups and geometric regions of atoms
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<LI> pressure control via Nose/Hoover or Berendsen barostatting in 1 to 3 dimensions
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<LI> simulation box deformation (tensile and shear)
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<LI> harmonic (umbrella) constraint forces
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<LI> rigid body constraints
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<LI> SHAKE bond and angle constraints
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<LI> bond breaking, formation, swapping
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<LI> walls of various kinds
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<LI> non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD)
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<LI> variety of additional boundary conditions and constraints
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</UL>
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<H4>Integrators
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</H4>
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<P>(<A HREF = "run.html">run</A>, <A HREF = "run_style.html">run_style</A>, <A HREF = "minimize.html">minimize</A> commands)
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</P>
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<UL><LI> velocity-Verlet integrator
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<LI> Brownian dynamics
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<LI> rigid body integration
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<LI> energy minimization via conjugate gradient or steepest descent relaxation
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<LI> rRESPA hierarchical timestepping
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</UL>
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<H4>Diagnostics
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</H4>
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<UL><LI> see the various flavors of the <A HREF = "fix.html">fix</A> and <A HREF = "compute.html">compute</A> commands
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</UL>
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<H4>Output
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</H4>
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<P>(<A HREF = "dump.html">dump</A>, <A HREF = "restart.html">restart</A> commands)
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</P>
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<UL><LI> log file of thermodynamic info
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<LI> text dump files of atom coords, velocities, other per-atom quantities
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<LI> binary restart files
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<LI> per-atom quantities (energy, stress, centro-symmetry parameter, CNA, etc)
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<LI> user-defined system-wide (log file) or per-atom (dump file) calculations
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<LI> spatial and time averaging of per-atom quantities
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<LI> time averaging of system-wide quantities
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<LI> atom snapshots in native, XYZ, XTC, DCD, CFG formats
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</UL>
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<H4>Pre- and post-processing
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</H4>
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<UL><LI>Various pre- and post-processing serial tools are packaged
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with LAMMPS; see these <A HREF = "Section_tools.html">doc pages</A>.
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<LI>Our group has also written and released a separate toolkit called
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<A HREF = "http://www.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/pizza.html">Pizza.py</A> which provides tools for doing setup, analysis,
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plotting, and visualization for LAMMPS simulations. Pizza.py is
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written in <A HREF = "http://www.python.org">Python</A> and is available for download from <A HREF = "http://www.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/pizza.html">the
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Pizza.py WWW site</A>.
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</UL>
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<H4>Specialized features
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</H4>
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<P>These are LAMMPS capabilities which you may not think of as typical
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molecular dynamics options:
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<UL><LI><A HREF = "fix_imd.html">real-time visualization and interactive MD</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "fix_atc.html">atom-to-continuum coupling</A> with finite elements
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<LI>coupled rigid body integration via the <A HREF = "fix_poems.html">POEMS</A> library
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<LI><A HREF = "temper.html">parallel tempering</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "prd.html">parallel replica dynamics</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "pair_dsmc.html">Direct Simulation Monte Carlo</A> for low-density fluids
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<LI><A HREF = "pair_peri.html">Peridynamics mesoscale modeling</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "fix_tmd.html">targeted</A> and <A HREF = "fix_smd.html">steered</A> molecular dynamics
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<LI><A HREF = "fix_ttm.html">two-temperature electron model</A>
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<A NAME = "1_3"></A><H4>1.3 LAMMPS non-features
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</H4>
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<P>LAMMPS is designed to efficiently compute Newton's equations of motion
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for a system of interacting particles. Many of the tools needed to
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pre- and post-process the data for such simulations are not included
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in the LAMMPS kernel for several reasons:
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</P>
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<UL><LI>the desire to keep LAMMPS simple
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<LI>they are not parallel operations
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<LI>other codes already do them
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<LI>limited development resources
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</UL>
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<P>Specifically, LAMMPS itself does not:
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<UL><LI>run thru a GUI
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<LI>build molecular systems
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<LI>assign force-field coefficients automagically
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<LI>perform sophisticated analyses of your MD simulation
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<LI>visualize your MD simulation
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<LI>plot your output data
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</UL>
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<P>A few tools for pre- and post-processing tasks are provided as part of
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the LAMMPS package; they are described in <A HREF = "Section_tools.html">this
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section</A>. However, many people use other codes or
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write their own tools for these tasks.
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</P>
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<P>As noted above, our group has also written and released a separate
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toolkit called <A HREF = "http://www.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/pizza.html">Pizza.py</A> which addresses some of the listed
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bullets. It provides tools for doing setup, analysis, plotting, and
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visualization for LAMMPS simulations. Pizza.py is written in
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<A HREF = "http://www.python.org">Python</A> and is available for download from <A HREF = "http://www.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/pizza.html">the Pizza.py WWW
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site</A>.
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</P>
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<P>LAMMPS requires as input a list of initial atom coordinates and types,
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molecular topology information, and force-field coefficients assigned
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to all atoms and bonds. LAMMPS will not build molecular systems and
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assign force-field parameters for you.
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</P>
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<P>For atomic systems LAMMPS provides a <A HREF = "create_atoms.html">create_atoms</A>
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command which places atoms on solid-state lattices (fcc, bcc,
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user-defined, etc). Assigning small numbers of force field
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coefficients can be done via the <A HREF = "pair_coeff.html">pair coeff</A>, <A HREF = "bond_coeff.html">bond
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coeff</A>, <A HREF = "angle_coeff.html">angle coeff</A>, etc commands.
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For molecular systems or more complicated simulation geometries, users
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typically use another code as a builder and convert its output to
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LAMMPS input format, or write their own code to generate atom
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coordinate and molecular topology for LAMMPS to read in.
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</P>
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<P>For complicated molecular systems (e.g. a protein), a multitude of
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topology information and hundreds of force-field coefficients must
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typically be specified. We suggest you use a program like
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<A HREF = "http://www.scripps.edu/brooks">CHARMM</A> or <A HREF = "http://amber.scripps.edu">AMBER</A> or other molecular builders to setup
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such problems and dump its information to a file. You can then
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reformat the file as LAMMPS input. Some of the tools in <A HREF = "Section_tools.html">this
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section</A> can assist in this process.
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</P>
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<P>Similarly, LAMMPS creates output files in a simple format. Most users
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post-process these files with their own analysis tools or re-format
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them for input into other programs, including visualization packages.
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If you are convinced you need to compute something on-the-fly as
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LAMMPS runs, see <A HREF = "Section_modify.html">this section</A> for a discussion
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of how you can use the <A HREF = "dump.html">dump</A> and <A HREF = "compute.html">compute</A> and
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<A HREF = "fix.html">fix</A> commands to print out data of your choosing. Keep in
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mind that complicated computations can slow down the molecular
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dynamics timestepping, particularly if the computations are not
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parallel, so it is often better to leave such analysis to
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post-processing codes.
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</P>
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<P>A very simple (yet fast) visualizer is provided with the LAMMPS
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package - see the <A HREF = "Section_tools.html#xmovie">xmovie</A> tool in <A HREF = "Section_tools.html">this
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section</A>. It creates xyz projection views of
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atomic coordinates and animates them. We find it very useful for
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debugging purposes. For high-quality visualization we recommend the
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following packages:
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<UL><LI><A HREF = "http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd">VMD</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://mt.seas.upenn.edu/Archive/Graphics/A">AtomEye</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://pymol.sourceforge.net">PyMol</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/raster3d/raster3d.html">Raster3d</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://www.openrasmol.org">RasMol</A>
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</UL>
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<P>Other features that LAMMPS does not yet (and may never) support are
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discussed in <A HREF = "Section_history.html">this section</A>.
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</P>
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<P>Finally, these are freely-available molecular dynamics codes, most of
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them parallel, which may be well-suited to the problems you want to
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model. They can also be used in conjunction with LAMMPS to perform
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complementary modeling tasks.
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</P>
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<UL><LI><A HREF = "http://www.scripps.edu/brooks">CHARMM</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://amber.scripps.edu">AMBER</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/">NAMD</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/nwchem/nwchem.html">NWCHEM</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/msi/software/DL_POLY">DL_POLY</A>
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<LI><A HREF = "http://dasher.wustl.edu/tinker">Tinker</A>
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<P>CHARMM, AMBER, NAMD, NWCHEM, and Tinker are designed primarily for
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modeling biological molecules. CHARMM and AMBER use
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atom-decomposition (replicated-data) strategies for parallelism; NAMD
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and NWCHEM use spatial-decomposition approaches, similar to LAMMPS.
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Tinker is a serial code. DL_POLY includes potentials for a variety of
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biological and non-biological materials; both a replicated-data and
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spatial-decomposition version exist.
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<A NAME = "1_4"></A><H4>1.4 Open source distribution
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<P>LAMMPS comes with no warranty of any kind. As each source file states
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in its header, it is a copyrighted code that is distributed free-of-
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charge, under the terms of the <A HREF = "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU Public License</A> (GPL). This
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is often referred to as open-source distribution - see
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<A HREF = "http://www.gnu.org">www.gnu.org</A> or <A HREF = "http://www.opensource.org">www.opensource.org</A> for more
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details. The legal text of the GPL is in the LICENSE file that is
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included in the LAMMPS distribution.
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<P>Here is a summary of what the GPL means for LAMMPS users:
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<P>(1) Anyone is free to use, modify, or extend LAMMPS in any way they
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choose, including for commercial purposes.
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<P>(2) If you distribute a modified version of LAMMPS, it must remain
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open-source, meaning you distribute it under the terms of the GPL.
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You should clearly annotate such a code as a derivative version of
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LAMMPS.
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</P>
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<P>(3) If you release any code that includes LAMMPS source code, then it
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must also be open-sourced, meaning you distribute it under the terms
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of the GPL.
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</P>
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<P>(4) If you give LAMMPS files to someone else, the GPL LICENSE file and
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source file headers (including the copyright and GPL notices) should
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remain part of the code.
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</P>
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<P>In the spirit of an open-source code, these are various ways you can
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contribute to making LAMMPS better. You can send email to the
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<A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov/authors.html">developers</A> on any of these
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items.
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</P>
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<UL><LI>Point prospective users to the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A>. Mention it in
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talks or link to it from your WWW site.
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<LI>If you find an error or omission in this manual or on the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW
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Site</A>, or have a suggestion for something to clarify or include,
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send an email to the
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<A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov/authors.html">developers</A>.
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<LI>If you find a bug, <A HREF = "Section_errors.html#9_2">this section</A> describes
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how to report it.
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<LI>If you publish a paper using LAMMPS results, send the citation (and
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any cool pictures or movies if you like) to add to the Publications,
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Pictures, and Movies pages of the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A>, with links
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and attributions back to you.
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<LI>Create a new Makefile.machine that can be added to the src/MAKE
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directory.
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<LI>The tools sub-directory of the LAMMPS distribution has various
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stand-alone codes for pre- and post-processing of LAMMPS data. More
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details are given in <A HREF = "Section_tools.html">this section</A>. If you write
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a new tool that users will find useful, it can be added to the LAMMPS
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distribution.
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<LI>LAMMPS is designed to be easy to extend with new code for features
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like potentials, boundary conditions, diagnostic computations, etc.
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<A HREF = "Section_modify.html">This section</A> gives details. If you add a
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feature of general interest, it can be added to the LAMMPS
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distribution.
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<LI>The Benchmark page of the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A> lists LAMMPS
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performance on various platforms. The files needed to run the
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benchmarks are part of the LAMMPS distribution. If your machine is
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sufficiently different from those listed, your timing data can be
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added to the page.
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<LI>You can send feedback for the User Comments page of the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW
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Site</A>. It might be added to the page. No promises.
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<LI>Cash. Small denominations, unmarked bills preferred. Paper sack OK.
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Leave on desk. VISA also accepted. Chocolate chip cookies
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encouraged.
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</UL>
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<HR>
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<H4><A NAME = "1_5"></A>1.5 Acknowledgments and citations
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</H4>
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<P>LAMMPS development has been funded by the <A HREF = "http://www.doe.gov">US Department of
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Energy</A> (DOE), through its CRADA, LDRD, ASCI, and Genomes-to-Life
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programs and its <A HREF = "http://www.sc.doe.gov/ascr/home.html">OASCR</A> and <A HREF = "http://www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/ober_top.html">OBER</A> offices.
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</P>
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<P>Specifically, work on the latest version was funded in part by the US
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Department of Energy's Genomics:GTL program
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(<A HREF = "http://www.doegenomestolife.org">www.doegenomestolife.org</A>) under the <A HREF = "http://www.genomes2life.org">project</A>, "Carbon
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Sequestration in Synechococcus Sp.: From Molecular Machines to
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Hierarchical Modeling".
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</P>
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<P>The following papers describe the parallel algorithms used in LAMMPS.
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</P>
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<P>S. J. Plimpton, <B>Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular
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Dynamics</B>, J Comp Phys, 117, 1-19 (1995).
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</P>
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<P>S. J. Plimpton, R. Pollock, M. Stevens, <B>Particle-Mesh Ewald and
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rRESPA for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulations</B>, in Proc of the
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Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific
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Computing, Minneapolis, MN (March 1997).
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</P>
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<P>If you use LAMMPS results in your published work, please cite the J
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Comp Phys reference and include a pointer to the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A>
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(http://lammps.sandia.gov).
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</P>
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<P>If you send is information about your publication, we'll be pleased to
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add it to the Publications page of the <A HREF = "http://lammps.sandia.gov">LAMMPS WWW Site</A>. Ditto
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for a picture or movie for the Pictures or Movies pages.
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</P>
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<P>The core group of LAMMPS developers is at Sandia National Labs. They
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include <A HREF = "http://www.sandia.gov/~sjplimp">Steve Plimpton</A>, Paul Crozier, and Aidan Thompson and can
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be contacted via email: sjplimp, pscrozi, athomps at sandia.gov.
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</P>
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<P>Here are various folks who have made significant contributions to
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features in LAMMPS. The most recent contributions are at the top of
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the list.
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</P>
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<DIV ALIGN=center><TABLE BORDER=1 >
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<TR><TD >ipp Perl script tool </TD><TD > Reese Jones (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >eam_database and createatoms tools </TD><TD > Xiaowang Zhou (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >electron force field (eFF) </TD><TD > Andres Jaramillo-Botero and Julius Su (Caltech)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >embedded ion method (EIM) potential </TD><TD > Xiaowang Zhou (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >COMB potential with charge equilibration </TD><TD > Tzu-Ray Shan (U Florida)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix ave/correlate </TD><TD > Benoit Leblanc, Dave Rigby, Paul Saxe (Materials Design) and Reese Jones (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >pair_style peri/lps </TD><TD > Mike Parks (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix msst </TD><TD > Lawrence Fried (LLNL), Evan Reed (LLNL, Stanford)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >thermo_style custom tpcpu & spcpu keywords </TD><TD > Axel Kohlmeyer (Temple U) </TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix rigid/nve, fix rigid/nvt </TD><TD > Tony Sheh and Trung Dac Nguyen (U Michigan)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >public SVN & Git repositories for LAMMPS </TD><TD > Axel Kohlmeyer (Temple U) and Bill Goldman (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix nvt, fix nph, fix npt, Parinello/Rahman dynamics, fix box/relax </TD><TD > Aidan Thompson (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >compute heat/flux </TD><TD > German Samolyuk (ORNL) and Mario Pinto (Computational Research Lab, Pune, India)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >pair yukawa/colloid </TD><TD > Randy Schunk (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix wall/colloid </TD><TD > Jeremy Lechman (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >pair_style dsmc for Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) modeling </TD><TD > Paul Crozier (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix imd for real-time viz and interactive MD </TD><TD > Axel Kohlmeyer (Temple Univ)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >concentration-dependent EAM potential </TD><TD > Alexander Stukowski (Technical University of Darmstadt)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >parallel replica dymamics (PRD) </TD><TD > Mike Brown (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >min_style hftn </TD><TD > Todd Plantenga (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix atc </TD><TD > Reese Jones, Jon Zimmerman, Jeremy Templeton (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >dump cfg </TD><TD > Liang Wan (Chinese Academy of Sciences)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix nvt with Nose/Hoover chains </TD><TD > Andy Ballard (U Maryland)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >pair_style lj/cut/gpu, pair_style gayberne/gpu </TD><TD > Mike Brown (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >pair_style lj96/cut, bond_style table, angle_style table </TD><TD > Chuanfu Luo</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix langevin tally </TD><TD > Carolyn Phillips (U Michigan)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >compute heat/flux for Green-Kubo </TD><TD > Reese Jones (Sandia), Philip Howell (Siemens), Vikas Varsney (AFRL)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >region cone </TD><TD > Pim Schravendijk</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix reax/bonds </TD><TD > Aidan Thompson (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >pair born/coul/long </TD><TD > Ahmed Ismail (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix ttm </TD><TD > Paul Crozier (Sandia) and Carolyn Phillips (U Michigan)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix box/relax </TD><TD > Aidan Thompson and David Olmsted (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >ReaxFF potential </TD><TD > Aidan Thompson (Sandia) and Hansohl Cho (MIT)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >compute cna/atom </TD><TD > Wan Liang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >Tersoff/ZBL potential </TD><TD > Dave Farrell (Northwestern U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >peridynamics </TD><TD > Mike Parks (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix smd for steered MD </TD><TD > Axel Kohlmeyer (U Penn)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >GROMACS pair potentials </TD><TD > Mark Stevens (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >lmp2vmd tool </TD><TD > Axel Kohlmeyer (U Penn)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >compute group/group </TD><TD > Naveen Michaud-Agrawal (Johns Hopkins U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >CG-CMM user package for coarse-graining </TD><TD > Axel Kohlmeyer (U Penn)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >cosine/delta angle potential </TD><TD > Axel Kohlmeyer (U Penn)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >VIM editor add-ons for LAMMPS input scripts </TD><TD > Gerolf Ziegenhain</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >pair lubricate </TD><TD > Randy Schunk (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >compute ackland/atom </TD><TD > Gerolf Zeigenhain</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >kspace_style ewald/n, pair_style lj/coul, pair_style buck/coul </TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >AI-REBO bond-order potential </TD><TD > Ase Henry (MIT)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >making LAMMPS a true "object" that can be instantiated multiple times, e.g. as a library </TD><TD > Ben FrantzDale (RPI)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >pymol_asphere viz tool </TD><TD > Mike Brown (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >NEMD SLLOD integration </TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >tensile and shear deformations </TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >GayBerne potential </TD><TD > Mike Brown (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >ellipsoidal particles </TD><TD > Mike Brown (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >colloid potentials </TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix heat </TD><TD > Paul Crozier and Ed Webb (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >neighbor multi and communicate multi </TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >MATLAB post-processing scripts </TD><TD > Arun Subramaniyan (Purdue)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >triclinic (non-orthogonal) simulation domains </TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >thermo_extract tool</TD><TD > Vikas Varshney (Wright Patterson AFB)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix ave/time and fix ave/spatial </TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >MEAM potential </TD><TD > Greg Wagner (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >optimized pair potentials for lj/cut, charmm/long, eam, morse </TD><TD > James Fischer (High Performance Technologies), David Richie and Vincent Natoli (Stone Ridge Technologies)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix wall/lj126 </TD><TD > Mark Stevens (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >Stillinger-Weber and Tersoff potentials </TD><TD > Aidan Thompson and Xiaowang Zhou (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >region prism </TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >LJ tail corrections for energy/pressure </TD><TD > Paul Crozier (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >fix momentum and recenter </TD><TD > Naveen Michaud-Agrawal (Johns Hopkins U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >multi-letter variable names </TD><TD > Naveen Michaud-Agrawal (Johns Hopkins U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >OPLS dihedral potential</TD><TD > Mark Stevens (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >POEMS coupled rigid body integrator</TD><TD > Rudranarayan Mukherjee (RPI)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >faster pair hybrid potential</TD><TD > James Fischer (High Performance Technologies, Inc), Vincent Natoli and David Richie (Stone Ridge Technology)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >breakable bond quartic potential</TD><TD > Chris Lorenz and Mark Stevens (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >DCD and XTC dump styles</TD><TD > Naveen Michaud-Agrawal (Johns Hopkins U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >grain boundary orientation fix </TD><TD > Koenraad Janssens and David Olmsted (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >lj/smooth pair potential </TD><TD > Craig Maloney (UCSB) </TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >radius-of-gyration spring fix </TD><TD > Naveen Michaud-Agrawal (Johns Hopkins U) and Paul Crozier (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >self spring fix </TD><TD > Naveen Michaud-Agrawal (Johns Hopkins U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >EAM CoAl and AlCu potentials </TD><TD > Kwang-Reoul Lee (KIST, Korea)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >cosine/squared angle potential </TD><TD > Naveen Michaud-Agrawal (Johns Hopkins U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >helix dihedral potential </TD><TD > Naveen Michaud-Agrawal (Johns Hopkins U) and Mark Stevens (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >Finnis/Sinclair EAM</TD><TD > Tim Lau (MIT)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) potentials</TD><TD > Kurt Smith (U Pitt) and Frank van Swol (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >TIP4P potential (4-site water)</TD><TD > Ahmed Ismail and Amalie Frischknecht (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >uniaxial strain fix</TD><TD > Carsten Svaneborg (Max Planck Institute)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >thermodynamics enhanced by fix quantities</TD><TD > Aidan Thompson (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >compressed dump files</TD><TD > Erik Luijten (U Illinois)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >cylindrical indenter fix</TD><TD > Ravi Agrawal (Northwestern U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >electric field fix</TD><TD > Christina Payne (Vanderbilt U)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >AMBER <-> LAMMPS tool</TD><TD > Keir Novik (Univ College London) and Vikas Varshney (U Akron)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >CHARMM <-> LAMMPS tool</TD><TD > Pieter in 't Veld and Paul Crozier (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >Morse bond potential</TD><TD > Jeff Greathouse (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >radial distribution functions</TD><TD > Paul Crozier & Jeff Greathouse (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >force tables for long-range Coulombics</TD><TD > Paul Crozier (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >targeted molecular dynamics (TMD)</TD><TD > Paul Crozier (Sandia) and Christian Burisch (Bochum University, Germany)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >FFT support for SGI SCSL (Altix)</TD><TD > Jim Shepherd (Ga Tech)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >lmp2cfg and lmp2traj tools</TD><TD > Ara Kooser, Jeff Greathouse, Andrey Kalinichev (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >parallel tempering</TD><TD > Mark Sears (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >embedded atom method (EAM) potential</TD><TD > Stephen Foiles (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >multi-harmonic dihedral potential</TD><TD > Mathias Puetz (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >granular force fields and BC</TD><TD > Leo Silbert & Gary Grest (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >2d Ewald/PPPM</TD><TD > Paul Crozier (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >CHARMM force fields</TD><TD > Paul Crozier (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >msi2lmp tool</TD><TD > Steve Lustig (Dupont), Mike Peachey & John Carpenter (Cray)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >HTFN energy minimizer</TD><TD > Todd Plantenga (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >class 2 force fields</TD><TD > Eric Simon (Cray)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >NVT/NPT integrators</TD><TD > Mark Stevens (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >rRESPA</TD><TD > Mark Stevens & Paul Crozier (Sandia)</TD></TR>
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<TR><TD >Ewald and PPPM solvers</TD><TD > Roy Pollock (LLNL) </TD><TD >
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</TD></TR></TABLE></DIV>
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<P>Other CRADA partners involved in the design and testing of LAMMPS were
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</P>
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<UL><LI>John Carpenter (Mayo Clinic, formerly at Cray Research)
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<LI>Terry Stouch (Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, formerly at Bristol Myers Squibb)
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<LI>Steve Lustig (Dupont)
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<LI>Jim Belak (LLNL)
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