DL POLY

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DL_POLY is a general purpose serial and parallel molecular dynamics simulation package developed at Daresbury Laboratory by W. Smith, T.R. Forester and I.T. Todorov [1] [2]

Units

DL_POLY employs an interesting set of units which have molecular relevance [3].:

physical quantity symbol unit value
time seconds (picoseconds)
length metres (Angstroms)
mass kilograms (amu)
charge Coulombs (electron charge)
energy Joules = 10 J mol
pressure Pascal = 166.054 bar
Planck constant
Boltzmann constant

Force field

The force field used in DL_POLY consists (or can consist) of the following components [4]:

Constraint algorithms

DL POLY can use either the SHAKE or the RATTLE algorithms as well as Q-SHAKE [5].

Versions of DL_POLY

DL_POLY_2

DL_POLY_2 was designed for simulations of up to 30,000 atoms and on parallel computers using up to 100 processors.

DL_POLY_3

DL_POLY_3 was designed for simulations of order 100,000 to 1,000,000 atoms running on up to 1000 processors.

  • DL_POLY_3 does not handle rigid body molecules.

DL_POLY_4

The first DL_POLY_4 release is expected early in 2010.

DL_MULTI

A DL_POLY package to simulate rigid molecules with multipoles.

Visualising DL_POLY output

The visualisation program VMD is capable of displaying the HISTORY trajectory file.

References

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