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== Description ==
= Description =

The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package ('''VASP''') is an atomic scale materials modelling
The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package ('''VASP''') is an atomic scale materials modelling
program for e.g. electronic structure calculations and quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics.
program for e.g. electronic structure calculations and quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics.
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* Relaxation: Conjugate gradient, quasi-Newton or damped molecular dynamics
* Relaxation: Conjugate gradient, quasi-Newton or damped molecular dynamics
* Transition state search: Nudged elastic band methods, climbing dimer method
* Transition state search: Nudged elastic band methods, climbing dimer method
* Linear response to electric fields: Static dielectric properties,
* Linear response to electric fields: Static dielectric properties, Born effective charge tensors, piezoelectric tensors
Born effective charge tensors, piezoelectric tensors
* Green's function methods: GW quasiparticles
* Green's function methods: GW quasiparticles
* Magnetism: Collinear and non-collinear, spin-orbit coupling
* Magnetism: Collinear and non-collinear, spin-orbit coupling
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For more information on VASP please
For more information on VASP please
visit [https://www.vasp.at/index.php/about-vasp/59-about-vasp What is VASP?].
visit [https://www.vasp.at/index.php/about-vasp/59-about-vasp What is VASP?].
<br>
<br>
<br>


== License and citing ==
= License and Citing =

VASP is available only for groups with a valid group license. Furthermore every
VASP is available only for groups with a valid group license. Furthermore every
scientist has to be registered below his group leaders VASP license
scientist has to be registered with his group VASP license
at [http://vasp.at the VASP group in Vienna] before we can grant access to the
at [http://vasp.at the VASP group in Vienna] before we can grant access to the
VASP binaries or pseudopotentials.
VASP binaries or pseudopotentials.
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[2] G. Kresse and D. Joubert, Phys. Rev. '''59''', 1758 (1999).
[2] G. Kresse and D. Joubert, Phys. Rev. '''59''', 1758 (1999).


If special features or method implemented in VASP will have been used,
If special features or method implemented in VASP are used,
reference should be made to the relevant publications
reference should be made to the relevant publications
as listed on the [http://vasp.at VASP home-page] (see also
as listed on the [http://vasp.at VASP home-page] (see also
the [http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/vasp/Bibliography.html Bibliography]
the [http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/vasp/Bibliography.html Bibliography]
of the [http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/vasp/vasp.html VASP manual]).
of the [http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/vasp/vasp.html VASP manual]).
<br>

== Versions and availability ==

A list of versions available on the bwUniCluster and bwForClusters can be obtained
from the Cluster Information System: [http://cis-hpc.uni-konstanz.de/prod.cis/vasp CIS Information on VASP]

On the command line interface (CLI) of a particular bwHPC cluster
a list of available VASP versions can be inquired as followed
<pre>
$ module avail chem/vasp
</pre>

== Usage ==

=== Loading the module ===

You can load the default version of ''VASP'' with the command
<pre>
$ module load chem/vasp
</pre>

There are no dependencies to other modules. All required components,
e.g. Intel MPI, are included in the VASP module.
<br>
<br>


=== Program binaries and input files ===

After setting up the primary input files ''INCAR'', ''POSCAR'',
''KPOINTS'' and ''POTCAR'' in the job's directory, one can call
the vasp shell script
<pre>
$ vasp
</pre>
In interactive mode the script defaults to the serial version
of VASP. For command line options please see
<pre>
$ vasp -help
</pre>

The pseudopotential file ''POTCAR'' can be created with help of
the shell script
<pre>
$ vasp-pot
</pre>
Please see the manual
<pre>
$ vasp-pot -help
</pre>
before using ''vasp-pot''.

For the other input files please see the
[https://www.vasp.at/index.php/documentation VASP Documentation].
The [http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/vasp/vasp.html VASP online manual]
and [http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/wiki/index.php/The_VASP_Manual VASP wiki]
describe the structure of these files in detail.


= Usage =
=== Parallel computing and disk usage ===


== Parallel computing and disk usage ==
Depending on the resources requested from the queueing system,
Depending on the resources requested from the queueing system,
the ''vasp'' script automatically detects whether to run the
the ''vasp'' script automatically detects whether to run the
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$ module help chem/vasp
$ module help chem/vasp
</pre>
</pre>
<br>

=== Queueing system example ===

See qeueuing system example input file as referenced in
<pre>
$ module help chem/vasp
</pre>

=== Interactive parallel example ===

The example shows, how to load the vasp module,
extract some example input files and run vasp on an
interactive node using 4 cores:

<pre>
$ module load chem/vasp
$ mkdir ~/VASP-example-job/
$ cd ~/VASP-example-job/
$ tar -zxvf $VASP_EXA_DIR/bench.Hg.tar.gz
$ vasp -n 4
</pre>

== Version-specific information ==

For specific information about version X, see the output of command
<pre>
$ module help chem/vasp/X
</pre>

To load and use a specific VASP version X, use the command
<pre>
$ module load chem/vasp/X
</pre>


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Latest revision as of 11:58, 23 April 2024

The main documentation is available via module help chem/vasp on the cluster. Most software modules for applications provide working example batch scripts.


Description Content
module load chem/vasp
License Commercial VASP license. See text.
Citing See VASP license and documentation
Links Homepage | Documentation
Graphical Interface No (only via 3rd party tools like VMD)

Description

The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is an atomic scale materials modelling program for e.g. electronic structure calculations and quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics. Although the focus is on simulation of periodic structures like solids and surfaces, molecular structures can be simulated as well by the so-called supercell approach. VASP is a plane wave code using PAW (projector augmented wave) pseudopotentials. Exchange and correlation effects are described based on DFT (density functional theory) as well as Hartree-Fock and post Hartree-Fock methods.

Some features of VASP:

  • Functionals: LDA, GGAs, metaGGAs, Hartree-Fock, Hartree-Fock/DFT hybrids
  • Dynamics: Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics
  • Relaxation: Conjugate gradient, quasi-Newton or damped molecular dynamics
  • Transition state search: Nudged elastic band methods, climbing dimer method
  • Linear response to electric fields: Static dielectric properties, Born effective charge tensors, piezoelectric tensors
  • Green's function methods: GW quasiparticles
  • Magnetism: Collinear and non-collinear, spin-orbit coupling
  • Linear response to ionic displacements: Phonons, elastic constants, internal strain tensors

For more information on VASP please visit What is VASP?.

License and Citing

VASP is available only for groups with a valid group license. Furthermore every scientist has to be registered with his group VASP license at the VASP group in Vienna before we can grant access to the VASP binaries or pseudopotentials.

In future publications of work performed using VASP, the use of the software shall be properly acknowledged, e.g. in the form:

The calculations have been performed using the ab-initio total-energy and molecular-dynamics program VASP (Vienna ab-initio simulation program) developed at the Institut für Materialphysik of the Universität Wien [1,2].
[1] G. Kresse and J. Furthmüller, Phys. Rev. B 54, 11169 (1996).
If the PAW-version is used, an additional reference shell be made to:
[2] G. Kresse and D. Joubert, Phys. Rev. 59, 1758 (1999).

If special features or method implemented in VASP are used, reference should be made to the relevant publications as listed on the VASP home-page (see also the Bibliography of the VASP manual).


Usage

Parallel computing and disk usage

Depending on the resources requested from the queueing system, the vasp script automatically detects whether to run the serial or the MPI-parallel version.

If running on multiple nodes, the job must run within a common job directory visible on all nodes. So in case of multi-node jobs, using /tmp/$USER is no option.

To lower the disk I/O demands of the VASP jobs one should add the options

  LWAVE  = .FALSE.; LCHARG = .FALSE.; LVTOT  = .FALSE.

to the INCAR file. For further hints on how to optimize your VASP see the VASP online manual and VASP wiki as well as the module help of VASP:

$ module help chem/vasp