1 This is the LAMMPS software package.
3 LAMMPS stands for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel
6 Copyright (2003) Sandia Corporation. Under the terms of Contract
7 DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains
8 certain rights in this software. This software is distributed under
9 the GNU General Public License.
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13 LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics simulation code designed to
14 run efficiently on parallel computers. It was developed at Sandia
15 National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy facility, with
16 funding from the DOE. It is an open-source code, distributed freely
17 under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
19 The primary author of the code is Steve Plimpton, who can be emailed
20 at sjplimp@sandia.gov. The LAMMPS WWW Site at lammps.sandia.gov has
21 more information about the code and its uses.
23 The LAMMPS distribution includes the following files and directories:
26 LICENSE the GNU General Public License (GPL)
27 bench benchmark problems
28 couple code coupling examples using LAMMPS as a library
30 examples simple test problems
31 lib libraries LAMMPS can be linked with
32 potentials interatomic potential files
33 python Python wrapper on LAMMPS as a library
35 tools pre- and post-processing tools
37 Point your browser at any of these files to get started:
39 doc/Manual.html the LAMMPS manual
40 doc/Section_intro.html hi-level introduction to LAMMPS
41 doc/Section_start.html how to build and use LAMMPS
42 doc/Developer.pdf LAMMPS developer guide