Code Name |
Field |
Owner |
Access |
OS |
Source? |
Github? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LAMMPS |
Molecular Dynamics |
Sandia |
Sandia |
All |
Yes |
LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. LAMMPS has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale. It runs on single processors or in parallel using message-passing techniques and a spatial-decomposition of the simulation domain. The code is designed to be easy to modify or extend with new functionality.
Citing LAMMPS in your papers
The following JCP paper is the canoncial reference to use for citing LAMMPS. It describes the parallel spatial-decomposition, neighbor-finding, and communcation algorithms used in the code. Please also give the URL of the LAMMPS WWW Site in your paper, namely http://lammps.sandia.gov.
S. Plimpton, Fast Parallel Algorithms for Short-Range Molecular Dynamics, J Comp Phys, 117, 1-19 (1995).