Credits

HOOMD Developers:

Joshua Anderson, ISU and Ames Lab - primary developer
  • Initial code architecture design
  • Neighbor list generation
  • Lennard-Jones forces
  • Gaussian pair forces
  • Harmonic bond forces
  • NVE and NVT integration
  • hoomd_script design & implementation
  • hoomd_xml file format design & implementation
  • MOL2 & DCD file format writers
  • PDB file format writer
  • Random polymer generator
  • IMD interface for VMD
  • Documentation
  • analyze.log design and implementation
  • analyze.msd implementation

Alex Travesset, ISU and Ames Lab - his advisor

  • Electrostatic forces

Rastko Sknepnek, ISU and Ames Lab - additional development

  • NPT integration

Carolyn Phillips, University of Michigan - additional development

  • FENE bond forces
  • Shifted LJ forces
  • Initial testing and debugging of HOOMD on Mac OS X systems

While not having contributed a significant amount of code to HOOMD, David Tarjan at the University of Virginia is repsonsible for numerous performance tweaks to the neighbor list and Lennard-Jones force code.

Source code

Sockets code from VMD is used for the IMDInterface to VMD (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/) - Used under the VMD License
This software includes code developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
XML parsing is performed with XML.c from http://www.applied-mathematics.net/tools/xmlParser.html - Used under the BSD License
Copyright (c) 2002, Frank Vanden Berghen
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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  • Neither the name of the Frank Vanden Berghen nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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FindCUDA.cmake (http://www.sci.utah.edu/~abe/FindCuda.html) has been modified slightly and is used as part of the build system - Used under the MIT License
Copyright (c) 2007
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah

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Saru is used for random number generation - Used under the following license
Copyright (c) 2008 Steve Worley < m a t h g e e k@(my last name).com >

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Libraries

(distributed in a linked binary form if you downloaded a HOOMD static build)
boost - Used under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0 (http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
zlib - Used under the zlib license (http://www.zlib.net/zlib_license.html)
bzip2 - Used under the bzip2 license (http://www.bzip.org)
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