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Anybody knows a molecular dynamics software for Windows operative systems?

Submitted by marco.paggi on
software
molecular dynamics

 

Dear All,

I am looking for a freeware molecular dynamics software working for Windows operative systems.

I have tried LAMMPS, but it seems to me that it works only under UNIX. 

Thank you very much in advance for any information.

Best wishes, Marco Paggi 

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Dr. Ing. Marco Paggi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Structural Mechanics

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow 2010-2011

Member of the Executive Board of the Italian Group of Fracture 2009-2011

Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering
Politecnico di Torino

C.so Duca degli Abruzzi, 24

10129  - Torino (Italy)

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marco.paggi

Hi,

instead of using Cygwin, have you ever tried to compile the unix version of LAMMPS under a virtual machine for Linux? This could be a consistent alternative to installing a Unix operative system on a partition of my hard disk. Is anyone having experience on that? Have you had problems with LAMMPS in this way or is it fine?

Thanks, Marco

Sun, 08/23/2009 - 15:54 Permalink
kwlim

Hi Marco,

LAMMPS can be installed on a number of platforms, including Linux and Windows Cygwin. I think you need to modify the makefile to include the configuration file appropriate to your platform. A number of configuration files are included with the source and you need to select the one closest to your platform (and perhaps make some minor modifications to it). I didn't try installing LAMMPS on another platform; it was more convenient for me to use Windows.

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 02:20 Permalink
rrahman

 

I can suggest you two ways:

1) You can build Lammps on Visual C++. You'll need to make few changes in the code. These are described in the file "windows" which is in the direcory src/make. You may like to read the notes and make specific changes in VC++ once you add all the .cpp and .h files in the vc++ project. finally you can build the lammps. in this manner you'll be able to make any modification or use the code in your specific research.

 

2) you can download the windows exe from http://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html.  u can run the .exe file from python. however, u must need the input file and provide other reqired arguments in the python (see: http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os-process). but in this case u'll not be able to modify in the code.

 

hope this helps.

 

rezwan 

 

 

Thu, 02/04/2010 - 00:32 Permalink