README

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