Physical sciences computing · Sandia National Laboratories (US DOE)

LAMMPS

Open-source molecular dynamics simulator for materials, chemistry and soft-matter physics, developed at Sandia National Labs.

LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) is an open-source classical molecular dynamics code developed at Sandia National Laboratories, used to simulate particle systems ranging from solid-state materials and metals to polymers, biomolecules and coarse-grained soft matter. It scales from a laptop to large HPC clusters via MPI parallelization and GPU acceleration, and supports a wide range of interatomic potentials and force fields contributed by its research community. Users write plain-text input scripts defining the system, potentials and simulation steps, and can extend it with custom C++ packages. It is free to download and modify, maintained with US Department of Energy funding, and is one of the most widely used codes in computational materials science and chemistry research.

At a glance

Vendor Sandia National Laboratories (US DOE)
Pricing model Open source + paid options
Free tier Yes
Deployment Self-hosted
Open source Yes (GPL-2.0)
Best for Computational materials scientists and chemists running large-scale atomistic molecular dynamics simulations.

Pricing

Free and open source; developed with US Department of Energy funding.

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Features

  • Classical molecular dynamics simulation
  • MPI and GPU parallelization for HPC scale
  • Wide range of interatomic potentials/force fields
  • Extensible via custom C++ packages
  • Scriptable plain-text input files
  • Supports solids, liquids, polymers and biomolecules
  • Active research-community contributions

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Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

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