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

[Benjamin Recchie]

Please forward this workshop announcement to your faculty, students, and colleagues who may be interested.

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

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 2:00–3:30 p.m. | Kathleen A. Zar Room, John Crerar Library

The big success of the Apple with its mobile products (iPhone, iPad, etc.) is attributed not only to the fascinating hardware, but more importantly, to the open app development atmosphere that attracts millions of programmers. Among several popular MD simulation codes, there is also one with a similar purpose: LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator), developed by Sandia National Laboratories (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, many of which were 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 presented to demonstrate the procedures to extend LAMMPS functions. The attendees are also encouraged to bring their new ideas to an open discussion or in-person tutoring for the implementations. Finally, the instructor will introduce how to build LAMMPS as a module bound to or driven by other programs for wider purposes.

This is an ADVANCED level workshop, designed for users who are already fluent with the tools involved.

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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