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