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Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations with Thousands of Atoms

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SIESTA is a program for efficient electronic structure calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of molecules and solids in the framework of Density-Functional Theory (DFT).

SIESTA's efficiency stems from the use of a basis set of strictly-localized atomic orbitals. A very important feature of the code is that its accuracy and cost can be tuned in a wide range, from quick exploratory calculations to highly accurate simulations matching the quality of other approaches, such as plane-wave methods.

SIESTA's performance advantage enables the treatment of systems with hundreds of atoms in modest hardware, scaling up to tens of thousands and more when deployed in supercomputers.

TranSiesta is now part of the SIESTA executable, see the documentation for details.