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4. Information for Developers

This section describes the internal structure and basic algorithms of the LAMMPS code. This is a work in progress and additional information will be added incrementally depending on availability of time and requests from the LAMMPS user community.

• 4.1. Source files
• 4.2. Class topology
• 4.3. Code design
• 4.4. Parallel algorithms
• 4.5. Communication patterns
• 4.6. How a timestep works
• 4.7. Writing new styles
• 4.8. Notes for developers and code maintainers
• 4.9. Notes for updating code written for older LAMMPS versions
• 4.10. Writing plugins
• 4.11. Adding tests for unit testing
• 4.12. C++ base classes
• 4.13. Platform abstraction functions
• 4.14. Utility functions
• 4.15. Special Math functions
• 4.16. Tokenizer classes
• 4.17. Argument parsing classes
• 4.18. File reader classes
• 4.19. Memory pool classes
• 4.20. Eigensolver functions
• 4.21. Communication buffer coding with ubuf
• 4.22. Use of distributed grids within style classes