Contributing to LAMMPS

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

• Point prospective users to the LAMMPS WWW Site. Mention it in talks or link to it from your WWW site.
• If you find an error or omission in the LAMMPS documentation or on the LAMMPS WWW Site, or have a suggestion for something to clarify or include, send an email to the developers.
• If you find a bug, this section of the LAMMPS documentation describes how to report it.
• If you publish a paper using LAMMPS results, send the citation (and any cool pictures or movies if you like) to add to the Publications, Pictures, or Movies pages of the LAMMPS WWW Site, with links and attributions back to you. This also applies to simulations performed with earlier versions of LAMMPS or my older parallel MD codes (ParaDyn, Warp, GranFlow).
• Contribute your effort to the user content pages on the LAMMPS WWW site, namely a glossary definition, an input script or results for a simulation you run, or a howto explanation of something you figured out how to do with LAMMPS.
• LAMMPS is designed to be easy to extend with new code for features like potentials, boundary conditions, diagnostic computations, etc. This section of the LAMMPS documentation gives details. If you add a feature of general interest, it can be added to the main LAMMPS distribution. See this section of the documentation for info on how to submit your new file(s) to the LAMMPS developers.
• The tools sub-directory of the LAMMPS distribution has various stand-alone codes for pre- and post-processing of LAMMPS data. More details are given in this section of the LAMMPS documentation. If you write a new tool that users will find useful, it can be added to the LAMMPS distribution.
• Create a new Makefile.machine that can be added to the src/MAKE directory.
• The Benchmark page of the LAMMPS WWW Site lists LAMMPS performance on various platforms. The files needed to run the benchmarks are part of the LAMMPS distribution. If your machine is sufficiently different from those listed, your timing data can be added to the page.
• Cash. Small denominations, unmarked bills preferred. Leave in paper sack on author's desk. VISA also accepted. Chocolate chip cookies encouraged.