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Select the version of the code you want, click the "Download Now" button, and your browser should download a gzipped tar file. Unpack it with the following commands, and look for a README to get you started. 

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Note that the C++ version of LAMMPS, will unpack into a directory like lammps-25Mar09. If the date is later than the release date listed below, it means you have downloaded an upgraded version that includes the bug fixes and new features listed on this page up to and including the date of the directory. However, when LAMMPS runs it will still print out the release date listed below to the screen, since that is not changed every time there is a bug fix.

All versions of LAMMPS are distributed under the terms of the GNU Public license. The earlier Fortran versions are no longer under active development.

There have been ~39,600 downloads of LAMMPS since Sept 2004.

LAMMPS molecular dynamics package:

LAMMPS --- C++ version (7 Jul 2009) source tarball, GPL license, 15.8 Mb (includes all subsequent bug fixes and new features described on this page)
LAMMPS Windows executable --- C++ version (7 Jul 2009), 7.3 Mb (includes all subsequent bug fixes and new features described on this page up to 22 Oct 2009), does not include MPI (can only be run on a single processor, does not include an FFT library (cannot run PPM), built with all packages except: gpu, kspace, meam, opt, reax, xtc, user-atc
LAMMPS 2001 --- older f90 version source tarball, GPL license, 1.1 Mb, last updated 17 Jan 2005
LAMMPS 99 --- older f77 version source tarball, GPL license, 840 Kb

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Older parallel MD codes (ParaDyn, LJ) and the Python-based Pizza.py package, which provides pre- and post-processing and viz tools for LAMMPS, are available for download from this page.