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Revision as of 09:21, 7 July 2011

The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is electronic structure calculation. It is commonly used in the physics and materials science communities.

Experts

These experts have registered specific competence on this subject:

  FieldAE FTEGeneral activities
Diana Iusan (UPPMAX)UPPMAXComputational materials science
Performance tuning
50Compilation, performance optimization, and best practice usage of electronic structure codes.
Weine Olovsson (NSC)NSCComputational materials science90Application support, installation and help

General Info

VASP is not a "free" software. A valid VASP license is required to be allowed to use it.

Availability

ResourceCentreDescription
AbiskoHPC2Ncapability resource of 153 TFLOPS with full bisectional infiniband interconnect
AkkaHPC2Ncapability cluster resource of 54 TFLOPS with infiniband interconnect
BedaC3SEthroughput cluster resource
KappaNSCthroughput cluster resource of 26 TFLOPS
LindgrenPDCCray XE6 capability cluster with 305 TFLOPS peak performance
MatterNSCcluster resource of 37 TFLOPS dedicated to materials science
TriolithNSCCapability cluster with 338 TFLOPS peak and 1:2 Infiniband fat-tree

Links

  • Main web page. News about bug fixes and general information about VASP.
  • VASP online manual. Find out what all those INCAR keyword means, what their default values are, etc.
  • The VASP forum. For discussing "tricks of the VASP-trade", which knobs to turn, why results look strange, etc. To be able to post questions, you have to be registered and you need a VASP license.