This is the LAMMPS software package.

LAMMPS stands for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel

Simulator.

Copyright (2003) Sandia Corporation. Under the terms of Contract

DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains
certain rights in this software. This software is distributed under
the GNU General Public License.

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LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics simulation code designed to

run efficiently on parallel computers. It was developed at Sandia
National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy facility, with
funding from the DOE. It is an open-source code, distributed freely
under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

The primary author of the code is Steve Plimpton, who can be emailed
at sjplimp@sandia.gov. The LAMMPS WWW Site at lammps.sandia.gov has
more information about the code and its uses.

The LAMMPS distribution includes the following files and directories:

README this file

LICENSE the GNU General Public License (GPL)
bench benchmark problems
couple code coupling examples using LAMMPS as a library
doc documentation
examples simple test problems
lib libraries LAMMPS can be linked with
potentials interatomic potential files
python Python wrapper on LAMMPS as a library
src source files
tools pre- and post-processing tools

Point your browser at any of these files to get started:

doc/Manual.html the LAMMPS manual

doc/Section_intro.html hi-level introduction to LAMMPS
doc/Section_start.html how to build and use LAMMPS
doc/Developer.pdf LAMMPS developer guide