LAMMPS

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Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator

Original author(s)	Steve Plimpton, Aidan Thompson, Stan Moore, Axel Kohlmeyer, Richard Berger
Developer(s)	Sandia National Laboratories Temple University
Initial release	1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Stable release	2August2023 / August 2, 2023; 10 months ago (2023-08-02)
Repository	github.com/lammps/lammps
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform: Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris
Platform	x86, x86-64, ARM, POWER9
Size	534 MB
Available in	English
Type	Molecular dynamics
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.lammps.org

Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) is a molecular dynamics program from Sandia National Laboratories.^[1] LAMMPS makes use of Message Passing Interface (MPI) for parallel communication and is free and open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.^[1]

LAMMPS was originally developed under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between two laboratories from United States Department of Energy and three other laboratories from private sector firms.^[1] As of 2016^[update], it is maintained and distributed by researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories and Temple University.^[1]