R&D 100 Award for LAMMPS

R&D 100 Award

LAMMPS received an R&D 100 award in 2018. These awards are given annually — see the R&D World website — and are an industry-wide competition rewarding the practical applications of science.

Award summary

LAMMPS: Atomistic Simulation of Materials — LAMMPS is a widely-used molecular dynamics simulation package that models materials from the atomistic to mesoscale to continuum scales. It can be run on machines from desktop computers to the largest supercomputers, to explore the structural and dynamic properties of materials and provide insights not easily accessible to experimental observation.

There is also a brief video that was part of the submission.

Developers recognized in the submission

From Sandia National Laboratories unless otherwise noted:

  • Aidan Thompson
  • Mike Brown, Intel Corporation
  • Paul Crozier
  • Axel Kohlmeyer, Temple University
  • Stan Moore
  • Trung Nguyen, Northwestern University
  • Ray Shan, Materials Design, Inc.
  • Mark Stevens
  • Christian Trott
  • Mitch Wood
  • Steve Plimpton