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VASP

The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is a computer program for atomic scale materials modelling, e.g. electronic structure calculations and quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics, from first principles.

Link to section 'VASP License' of 'VASP' VASP License

The VASP team allows only registered users who have purchased their own license to use the software and access is only given to the VASP release which is covered by the license of the respective research group. For those who are interested to use VASP on Anvil, please send a ticket to ACCESS Help Desk to request access and provide your license for our verification. Once confirmed, the approved users will be given access to the vasp5 or vasp6 unix groups.

Prospective users can use the command below to check their unix groups on the system.

$ id $USER 

If you are interested to purchase and get a VASP license, please visit VASP website for more information.

Link to section 'VASP 5 and VASP 6 Installations' of 'VASP' VASP 5 and VASP 6 Installations

The Anvil team provides VASP 5.4.4 and VASP 6.3.0 installations and modulefiles with our default environment compiler gcc/11.2.0 and mpi library openmpi/4.1.6. Note that only license-approved users can load the VASP modulefile as below.

You can use the VASP 5.4.4 module by:

$ module load gcc/11.2.0  openmpi/4.1.6
$ module load vasp/5.4.4.pl2

You can use the VASP 6.3.0 module by:

$ module load gcc/11.2.0  openmpi/4.1.6
$ module load vasp/6.3.0

Once a VASP module is loaded, you can choose one of the VASP executables to run your code: vasp_std, vasp_gam, and vasp_ncl.

The VASP pseudopotential files are not provided on Anvil, you may need to bring your own POTCAR files.

Link to section 'Build your own VASP 5 and VASP 6' of 'VASP' Build your own VASP 5 and VASP 6

If you would like to use your own VASP on Anvil, please follow the instructions for Installing VASP.6.X.X and Installing VASP.5.X.X.

In the following sections, we provide some instructions about how to install VASP 5 and VASP 6 on Anvil and also the installation scripts:

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