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OOPSE |
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OOPSE is an open-source Object-Oriented Parallel Simulation Engine. |
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It is primarily used to perform molecular dynamics simulations on |
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"strange" atom types that are not normally handled by other simulation |
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packages. This includes atoms with orientational degrees of freedom |
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(point dipoles, sticky atoms), as well as transition metals under the |
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Embedded Atom Method (EAM) or Sutton-Chen (SC) potentials. |
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Simulations are started in OOPSE using a single Molecular Dynamics (.md) |
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file. These files must start with the <OOPSE> tag and must |
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have two sections: |
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1) a C-based <MetaData> section, and |
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2) a <Snapshot> block for initial coordinate and velocity information. |
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Detailed descriptions of the structures of these files are |
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available in the "doc" directory. Sample simulations are |
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available in the "samples" directory. |
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What you need to compile and use OOPSE: |
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1) Good C, C++ and Fortran95 compilers. We've built and tested OOPSE |
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on the following architecture & compiler combinations: |
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Architecture CC CXX F90 Notes |
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ix86-pc-linux-gnu icc icpc ifort (Intel versions 7-9) |
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i386-apple-darwin8.7.1 icc icpc ifort (Intel version 9.1) |
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powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0 gcc g++ xlf95 (GNU v.4 / IBM XL v. 8.1) |
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x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu gcc g++ pathf95 (GNU v.4 / Pathscale 2.5) |
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sparc-sun-solaris2.10 cc CC f95 (Sun ONE Studio 10) |
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We've also successfully compiled OOPSE with the Portland Group c, c++, |
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and Fortran95 compilers on the x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu architecture. |
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OOPSE uses features of the Fortran 95 language. The fortran |
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portions of our code will not compile if your compiler does not |
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support these particular features. Some (but not all) Fortran 90 |
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compilers do support these features. None of the Fortran 77 |
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compilers can be used to compile OOPSE. |
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Fortran compilers that are known to fail on OOPSE: g77, Gfortran, |
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Older Portland Group compilers (pgf77, pgf90). |
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Fortran compilers that are known to work on OOPSE: Intel's ifort, |
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Pathscale's pathf95, IBM's xlf95, Portland's pgf95 (version 6 or |
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higher), Sun's f95. There may be others that work also. |
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2) GNU make (also known as gmake). Regular make won't work. |
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Really. We've tried. Don't bother with regular make. |
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Seriously. You need GNU make. Did we mention that you |
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need GNU make? |
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3) Perl. Compilation dependencies in Fortran95 are somewhat |
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complicated, so the build process uses a perl script called |
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filepp to do this job. You need perl for filepp, so you |
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need perl to build OOPSE. |
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4) MPI is optional for the single processor version of OOPSE, |
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but is required if you want OOPSE to run in parallel. |
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We like Open MPI. Other implementations might work, but we |
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haven't tried. You can get Open MPI here: http://www.open-mpi.org/ |
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INSTRUCTIONS |
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1) Get, build, and test the required pieces above. |
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2) ./configure (or ./configure --with-mpi=/usr/local/openmpi) |
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3) make |
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4) make install |
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That's it. |