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1 < OOPSE
1 > What is OpenMD?
2  
3 < OOPSE is an open-source Object-Oriented Parallel Simulation Engine.
4 < It is primarily used to perform molecular dynamics simulations on
5 < "strange" atom types that are not normally handled by other simulation
6 < packages.  This includes atoms with orientational degrees of freedom
7 < (point dipoles, sticky atoms), as well as transition metals under the
8 < Embedded Atom Method (EAM) or Sutton-Chen (SC) potentials.
3 > OpenMD is an open source molecular dynamics engine which is capable of
4 > efficiently simulating liquids, proteins, nanoparticles, interfaces,
5 > and other complex systems using atom types with orientational degrees
6 > of freedom (e.g. "sticky" atoms, point dipoles, and coarse-grained
7 > assemblies). Proteins, zeolites, lipids, transition metals (bulk, flat
8 > interfaces, and nanoparticles) have all been simulated using force
9 > fields included with the code. OpenMD works on parallel computers
10 > using the Message Passing Interface (MPI), and comes with a number of
11 > analysis and utility programs that are easy to use and modify. An
12 > OpenMD simulation is specified using a very simple meta-data language
13 > that is easy to learn.
14  
15 < Simulations are started in OOPSE using two files:
15 > Simulations are started in OpenMD using a single Molecular Dynamics (.md)
16 > file.   These files must start with the <OpenMD> tag and must
17 > have two sections:
18  
19 <  1) a C-based meta-data (.md) file, and
19 >  1) a C-based <MetaData> section, and
20  
21 <  2) a modified XYZ format for initial coordinate and velocity information.
21 >  2) a <Snapshot> block for initial coordinate and velocity information.
22  
23 < Detailed descriptions of the structures of these two files are
23 > Detailed descriptions of the structures of these files are
24   available in the "doc" directory.  Sample simulations are
25   available in the "samples" directory.
26  
27 < What you need to compile and use OOPSE:
27 > What you need to compile and use OpenMD:
28  
29 < 1) Good C, C++ and Fortran95 compilers.  We've built and tested OOPSE
29 > 1) Good C++ and C compilers.  We've built and tested OpenMD
30      on the following architecture & compiler combinations:
31  
32 <    Architecture                CC     CXX     F90    Notes
33 <    -------------------------   ----   -----   -----  ----------------------
34 <    ix86-pc-linux-gnu           icc    icpc    ifort  (Intel versions 7-9)
35 <    powerpc-apple-darwin8.4.0   gcc    g++     xlf    (GNU v.4 / IBM XL v. 8.1)
36 <    x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu    pgcc   pgCC    pgf95  (Portland Group v. 6.0)
37 <    sparc-sun-solaris2.10       cc     CC      f95    (Sun ONE Studio 10)
31 <    
32 <    We've successfully compiled OOPSE with the Pathscale c, c++, and
33 <    Fortran95 compilers on the  x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu architecture,
34 <    but a bug in the exception handling on these compilers causes
35 <    OOPSE to abort (rather than providing a useful error message) when
36 <    an error is found in the meta-data file.
37 <  
38 <    OOPSE uses features of the Fortran 95 language. The fortran
39 <    portions of our code will not compile if your compiler does not
40 <    support these particular features. Some (but not all) Fortran 90
41 <    compilers do support these features. None of the Fortran 77
42 <    compilers can be used to compile OOPSE.
32 >    Architecture                CC     CXX     Notes
33 >    -------------------------   ----   -----   ----------------------
34 >    ix86-pc-linux-gnu           icc    icpc    (Intel v. 10)
35 >    i386-apple-darwin11.1.0     gcc    g++     (GNU v.4.3)
36 >    i386-apple-darwin11.1.0     icc    icpc    (Intel v. 12)
37 >    x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu    gcc    g++     (Pathscale 3.2)
38  
44    Compilers that are known to fail on OOPSE: g77, Gfortran, Older
45    Portland Group compilers (pgf77, pgf90).
46
47    Compilers that are known to work on OOPSE: Intel's ifort,
48    Pathscale's pathf95, IBM's xlf95, Portland's pgf95 (version 6 or
49    higher), Sun's f95. There may be others that work also.
50
39   2) GNU make (also known as gmake).  Regular make won't work.  
40      Really.  We've tried.  Don't bother with regular make.  
41      Seriously.  You need GNU make.  Did we mention that you
42      need GNU make?
43  
44 < 3) Perl.  Compilation dependencies in Fortran95 are somewhat
57 <    complicated, so the build process uses a perl script called
58 <    filepp to do this job.  You need perl for filepp, so you
59 <    need perl to build OOPSE.
44 > 3) Perl.
45  
46 < 4) MPI is optional for the single processor version of OOPSE,
47 <    but is required if you want OOPSE to run in parallel.
46 > 4) MPI-2 is optional for the single processor version of OpenMD, but
47 >    is required if you want OpenMD to run in parallel. We like
48 >    OpenMPI. Other implementations of MPI-2 might work, but we haven't
49 >    tried.   You can get Open MPI here: http://www.open-mpi.org/
50  
64    We like MPICH-1.2.*.  Other implementations might work, but we
65    haven't tried.  You can get MPICH here:
66    http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/
67
51   INSTRUCTIONS
52  
53   1) Get, build, and test the required pieces above.
54 < 2) ./configure  (or ./configure --with-mpi=/usr/local/mpich)
54 > 2) ./configure  
55   3) make
56   4) make install
57  

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