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Taken on Feb 4, 1998,
The latest versions are available at:
ftp://ftp.earth.ox.ac.uk/pub/moldy-2.12g.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.earth.ox.ac.uk/pub/moldy-2.12g.com
ftp://ftp.earth.ox.ac.uk/pub/moldy-2.12g.zip
ftp://ftp.earth.ox.ac.uk/pub/moldy-manual.ps.gz
ftp://ftp.earth.ox.ac.uk/pub/moldy-manual.pdf
a pointer to the Oxford WWW page
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~keith/moldy.html
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Copyright Keith Refson January 1990
All rights reserved
Moldy is a general-purpose molecular dynamics simulation program which
I wrote initially for my own research into aqueous solutions at
mineral surfaces. However it is sufficiently flexible that it ought
to be useful for a wide range of simulation calculations of atomic,
ionic and molecular systems.
Moldy is available by anonymous file transfer from Oxford. Connect to
"earth.ox.ac.uk" using "ftp", with an account name of "anonymous" and
your email address as password. The relevant files are all in the
"/pub" directory and are
* moldy-2.yy.tar.gz - The Unix distribution (also for MSDOS/Windoze)
* moldy-2.yy.com - The VMS distribution
* moldy-manual.ps.Z - The Manual in PostScript form. Note that
the distribution files already contain
the LaTeX source.
Please note that moldy is copyrighted and distributed under the GNU
public license which is designed to encourage its distribution and
modification. This is to ensure that the source code of moldy and any
improvements made to it by anybody remains available to anyone who
wishes to use it. If you change or improve Moldy, please tell me
and if practical and appropriate I will incorporate your modifications
into a future release. I hope that as time goes on Moldy will become
yet more comprehensive as a result of your input.
I am also keeping a list of email addresses of anyone who uses the
program for notification of updates, bugs and so forth. Please notify
me if you would like to be added to this list, preferably by email to
Keith.Refson@earth.ox.ac.uk.
Contents of the distribution:
accel.c
algorith.c
alloc.c
ansi.c
auxil.c
beeman.c These files are the source code for Moldy.
convert.c
dump.c
ewald.c
force.c
input.c
eigens.c
kernel.c
main.c
matrix.c
output.c
quaterns.c
rdf.c
restart.c
startup.c
values.c
xdr.c
parallel.c
defs.h
messages.h 'Include' files for above files
structs.h
xdr.h
stddef.h
time.h replacement ANSI C include files for non-ANSI systems.
stdlib.h
string.h
dumpanal.c
dumpconv.c
dumpext.c Source code for 'utility' programs.
mdshak.c
mextract.c
getopt.c Support routine for utility progs.
Makefile Make file for Moldy.
compile.com Master compile file for VMS. Calls all the others.
compile_moldy.com Compile file for "moldy" itself.
compile_utils.com Link file for "moldy" itself.
link_moldy.com Compile file for utilities.
link_utils.com Link file for utilities.
defcomm.com Defines comands - execute from your LOGIN.COM
moldy.tex LaTeX source for manual
moldy.bbl
fig_*.ps Encapsulated Postscript versions of figures.
fig_*.tex LaTeX annotation for figures.
fig_*-eepic.tex Alternative version of figures in eepic form.
tips2.in
tip4p.in
methane.in
mcy.in
mgclh2o.in Example system specification files
control.clay
argon.in
quartz-vbst.in
control.mgclh2o
control.tip4p Example control files
control.water
control.clay
control.argon
control.tips2
control.quartz
control.mgclh2o
water-example.out
argon-example.out Output from example runs in manual
tips2-example.out
tip4p-example.out
mgclh2o-example.out
quartz-example.out
clay-example.out
UNPACKING
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A. Unix distribution
This distribution of Moldy takes the form of a compressed tar archive.
The archive is unpacked with
% gunzip moldy.tar (.gz) or % uncompress moldy.tar (.Z)
% tar xvf moldy.tar
B. VMS
The VMS version of Moldy comes as a DCL archive, moldy.com. To unpack:
$ @moldy
This creates all the files needed in the current directory.
Alternatively, versions of "uncompress" and "tar" are available for
VMS, though they are not standard. If you have them then you can
unpack the "moldy.tar.Z" archive (suitably renamed) in the same way.
COMPILING
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Here are some brief notes. There are more detailed instructions in the
manual.
A. UNIX
Stage 1.
You ought to be able to type "make moldy utilities" on just about any
flavour of unix and build a working version. However if you want to
get the best performance you will have to work a bit harder with
compiler options. You may also find that the compile fails for
obscure reasons. Don't worry, some compile options will probably sort
that out too.
Stage 2.
Edit "Makefile", choose a suitable set of compiler options for your
machine and uncomment them. Moldy has been test compiled on most
modern workstations as well as vector super and minisuper-computers,
so you only have to select the preset options.
Stage 3.
This section describes how to "hand-tune" compiler options.
If you get this far you have probably got a different machine or
compiler system from any of the tested ones. Moldy recognises a
number of C preprocessor macros which adjust its expectations of the
compiler and operating system. These are best defined using the
"-DMACRO-NAME" option of most unix C compilers.
MACRO Purpose
----- -------
The following two macros are used to select the ANSI C
"stdarg" mechanism. Default is older "varargs" mechanism.
__STDC__ Automatically defined by ANSI compilers in strict mode.
ANSI Alternative for ANSI compiler in non-strict mode which
does not define __STDC__.
ANSI_LIBS Set this if your libraries and header files conform
to those expected in the ANSI 89 Standard. Otherwise
extra replacement routines and header files to
remedy the deficiencies of older systems are included.
Set this if at all possible. Only in an ANSI
environment can you be sure that all needed headers and
library routines will be present. The alternative is
a kludge which works most of the time on most machines.
This is automatically set in "defs.h" for some
machines/compilers vhich are known to have ANSI libraries.
USE_XDR Turn on support for the portable binary dump and
restart files using the XDR mechanism. This is the
only area where Moldy departs substantially from the
ANSI C standard so it is optional. Nevertheless it
is so massively useful that it is on by default.
As this is not part of the standard it may not compile
correctly on some systems if the compiler is in
"strict ANSI" mode. Use the default or the "relaxed"
or "extended" ansi mode often provided.
You may well need to add a library to the link using
the LDFLAGS variable in the Makefile. For
example, solaris 2 on Suns needs the "-lnsl"
option and SGI's need the "-lsun" option.
You may also need to define some other macro to get
the headers correctly included viz:
_ALL_SOURCE (IBM RS6000)
_HPUX_SOURCE (HPUX)
These are needed to enable stuff needed for the XDR
routines and headers on IBM and HP machines.
N.B. These are actually set automatically in the Moldy
header "defs.h" However other systems may require something
similar .
SPMD Compile for SPMD (Single Program Multiple Data) parallel
execution. You must also specify one of the macros
BSP, MPI or TCGMSG to select a message-passing library
and have the appropriate include paths and libraries
defined in the Makefile.
BSP/MPI/TCGMSG/SHMEM (parallel.c only)
These select the parallel interface library. Portable
implementations of the first three are available for
most parallel architectures, and MPI should be available
on most true parallel machines.
MPPMANY (Ewald.c only) Selects parallelization of some of the
trig initialization code for the reciprocal-space sum.
This is a loser on all but the highest-bandwidth
parallel machines. It increases run time on the IBM SP2.
However it DOES give a speedup on the T3D when used in
conjunction with the SHMEM or BSP library interface.
B. VMS (VAX/VMS and OpenVMS/AXP)
Just execute the "compile.com" DCL command file which will build Moldy
and the utilities. All the required macros are set in "defs.h". It
also executes the command file "defcomm.com" which defines the command
symbols to execute the programs. It is a good idea to execute this
file from your LOGIN.COM to make them available every time you log in.
N.B. Depending on how your VMS system is set up you may need to take
additional steps to link moldy with the C runtime library. Consult
your local documentation or systems staff. If the C library isn't linked
by default the command
$ assign sys$library:vaxcrtl lnk$library
before the executing the compile command file
$ @compile
may well do the trick.
RUNNING
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Try it out by typing
moldy control.water
to do a 10 timestep simulation of water.
PRINTING THE MANUAL
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The LaTeX source, "moldy.tex" and bibliography file, "moldy.bbl"
are supplied. If you have LaTeX, "latex moldy" a couple of times
to get the cross-references correct and print the dvi file using
dvips or dvi2ps, or whatever dvi output you normally use.
There is a "moldy.dvi" target in the make file so just "make
moldy.dvi" ought to do the trick.
PARALLEL VERSION
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A. Distributed Memory
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To build this version you must have one of the three supported
message-passing libraries installed on the target system. These
are the Oxford BSP library, MPI (the new standardised
message-passing library interface) and TCGMSG (the Theoretical
Chamistry message-passing system). Then define the macro PARLIBC
in the Makefile to contain the "include" path for the library
header files, and the preprocessor symbols SPMD and one of MPI,
BSP and TCGMSG. The macro PARLIBL should be defined to link with
the appropriate libraries.
For the Cray T3D, there is also an interface to the SHMEM libraries
which provides the very fastest interprocessor communication. This
may be used in conjunction with the MPPMANY option in Ewald.c.
To find out how to set up a parallel run, consult the documentation
for your parallel system, as this varies.
The parallel performance increses with system size as the amount
of work in the force and ewald sum loops increases as a proportion
of the total work and with respect to the communication overhead.
A speedup of nearly 7 on an 8-processor IBM SP1 has been
demonstrated for the run "control.big", and in general the larger
the system the better the parallel performance.
The parallel interface is contained within a single file
"parallel.c" and versions for other MP libraries should be
relatively easy to add with a few hours of programming effort.
Alternative Ewald:
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There is an alternative version of Ewald.c which uses W. Smith's
RIL paralellization strategy in ewald-RIL.c. This uses far less
memory but at the cost of doing parallel communication in the
inner loops. This works reasonably on parallel machines
with very short latencies such as the Cray T3D, but on lesser
beasts it serializes the whole code!
B. Shared memory.
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The sources contain separate versions of ewald.c and force.c with
the appropriate code and compiler directives for compilation on
certain shared-memory parallel machines including Stardent Titan,
Convex and Cray architectures. To use, you must REPLACE ewald.c
and force.c with the file ewald_parallel.c and force_parallel.c
respecively. You must also define the preprocessor symbol
PARALLEL during the compilation (eg with the compiler option
-DPARALLEL).
The code reads the environment to decide how many processors
to execute on. The name of the env variable is usually the
same one as the manufacturers use for the same purpose
NCPUS for the CRAY and THREADS on everything else. Use
the SETENV command (for c-chell) or the bourne-shell equivalent
to before starting a run.
Note. The Stardent Titan version does not work as shipped because
the system supplied version of "malloc" can not be safely called
from a parallel program. Contact the author for a "thread-safe"
version which can.
Thank you
Keith Refson
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