[Colloquium] RCC Presents: Dissecting LAMMPS: An Open Development Environment for Particle Systems Simulations

[Benjamin Recchie]

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Dissecting LAMMPS: An Open Development Environment for Particle Systems Simulations
Yuxing Peng, Scientific Computing Consultant, Research Computing Center

Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:00–3:00 p.m. | Kathleen A. Zar Room, John Crerar Library

The big success of the Apple with its mobile products (iPhone, iPad, etc.) is attributed to not only the fascinating hardware but also, more importantly, the open app development atmosphere that attracts millions of programmers. Among several popular MD simulation codes, there is also one with a similar purpose. It is called LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator), developed by SNL. One of the most important features of LAMMPS is its well-designed framework and friendly plug-in interfaces, which allows people outside the SNL group to add new features into it. LAMMPS provides abundant functions, a large part of which was contributed from the third party developers. It is also an attractive platform to plenty of research groups that are focusing on developments of modeling and methodologies. The lecturer will first introduce the structure, modules and plug-in interfaces of LAMMPS. Then several tentative codes will be present to demonstrate the procedures to extend LAMMPS functions. The attendee will also encouraged bringing their new ideas to an open discussion or hands-on tutoring for the implementations. The final topic will introduce how to build LAMMPS as a module bound to or drive by other programs for wider purposes.

Prerequisites: Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop to participate in the hands-on session.

Register here<https://training.uchicago.edu/course_detail.cfm?course_id=1564>.




Benjamin Recchie
Communications, Outreach, and Project Manager, Research Computing Center
The University of Chicago
6030 S. Ellis Ave., Room 130
Chicago, IL 60637
E: bcrecchi at uchicago.edu
T: 773.834.5546
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