Community & Support on LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator

Contribute

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In the spirit of an open-source code, here are various ways you can contribute to making LAMMPS better. You can send email on any of these items to the developers.

LAMMPS is designed to be easy to extend with new code for features like potentials, boundary conditions, diagnostic computations, etc. The Modify doc pages give details. If you add a feature of general interest, it can be added to the main LAMMPS distribution. See the Modify contribute doc page for how to submit your new file(s) to the LAMMPS developers. The preferred way is via GitHub; see this tutorial for instructions.
If you find a bug, the Errors bugs doc page explains how to report it.
If you find an error or omission in the LAMMPS documentation or on the LAMMPS website, or have a suggestion or content to clarify or include, send an email to the developers.
If you publish a paper using LAMMPS results with cool pictures or movies, you can send them to add to the gallery, with links and attributions back to you.
The tools sub-directory of the LAMMPS distribution has various stand-alone codes for pre- and post-processing of LAMMPS data. More details are on the Tools doc page. If you write a new tool that users will find useful, it can be added to the LAMMPS distribution.
Cash. Small denominations, unmarked bills preferred. Leave in a paper sack on the developers’ desks. VISA also accepted. Chocolate chip cookies encouraged.

Publications Citing LAMMPS

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A good way to learn more about what can be done with LAMMPS — beyond studying the manual and learning from tutorials — is to read publications about studies that used LAMMPS. You can find those among the publications that cite the two canonical LAMMPS papers.

Here are Google Scholar links to lists of papers which cite LAMMPS, via either our recent 2022 Comp. Phys. Comm. paper, or the original 1995 J. Comp. Phys. paper. Both papers are briefly discussed on the citing LAMMPS page.

Report bugs & request features

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You can do both of these on the LAMMPS GitHub page; see details below.

You can also do this via the LAMMPS forum by posting a message in the “LAMMPS Development” sub-category. This is more appropriate if you are not sure something is a bug, or you just want to know whether a feature is already available in LAMMPS or possible to implement. If it indeed seems to be a bug, you may get asked to submit the full info through GitHub.

User Support

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The best place to get help with using LAMMPS is the LAMMPS user forum on MatSci.org. Also general questions about development should be asked there. Only specific bugs or feature requests should be posted to the GitHub issues page directly. Otherwise, one of the forum members will advise when it is best to move your inquiry elsewhere. Please review the posting guidelines first, and take note what you should not to ask in the forum.

YouTube Videos

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The LAMMPS project maintains a YouTube channel, @templelammps, with videos that highlight features of LAMMPS and recordings of recent LAMMPS workshops.

Videos — clips highlighting features and capabilities of LAMMPS.
Shorts — short-form clips highlighting individual LAMMPS features.
Streams — archived live streams from recent LAMMPS workshops.