Introduction
SIESTA is both a method and its computer program implementation, to perform efficient electronic structure calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of molecules and solids. The efficiency of SIESTA efficiency stems from the use of strictly localized basis sets and from the implementation of linear-scaling algorithms which can be applied to suitable systems. A very important feature of the code is that its accuracy and cost can be tuned in a wide range, from quick exploratory calculations to highly accurate simulations matching the quality of other approaches, such as plane-wave and all-electron methods.
The possibility of treating large systems with some first-principles electronic-structure methods has opened up new opportunities in many disciplines. The SIESTA program is distributed freely to academics and has become quite popular, being increasingly used by researchers in geosciences, biology, and engineering (apart from those in its natural habitat of materials physics and chemistry). Currently there are several thousand users all over the world, and the paper describing the method (J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 14, 2745 (2002)) has received more than 6000 citations so far.
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Versions
3.2-pl-5
Flavours
1
Architecture
x86_64
Group
module load site-local
Build Details
Compiled with:
- intel/compiler/64/2016.3.210
- intel/mkl/64/2016.3.210
- intel/mpi/64/2016.3.210
- gcc/6.3.0/1
- CFLAGS=-ipo
- FC=mpiifort
- F90=mpiifort
- F77=mpiifort
- FFLAGS=’-xHOST -O3 -no-prec-div -fp-model fast=2 -ipo -assume buffered_stdout -assume buffered_io’
Usage
module load development siesta/3.2-pl-5/1
Example Job Scripts
None yet.
Status
This version does not work.
2
Architecture
x86_64
Group
module load site-local
3
Architecture
x86_64
Group
module load site-local-development
Build Details
Compiled with:
- intel/compiler/64/2016.3.210
- intel/mkl/64/2016.3.210
- intel/mpi/64/2016.3.210
- gcc/4.9.3/1
- FC=mpiifort
- F90=mpiifort
- F77=mpiifort
- FFLAGS=’-xHOST -O3 -no-prec-div -fp-model fast=2 -assume buffered_stdout -assume buffered_io’
Usage
module load development siesta/3.2-pl-5/1
Example Job Scripts
None yet.
Status
Untested.