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5.15. Removed commands and packages

This page lists LAMMPS commands and packages that have been removed from the distribution and provides suggestions for alternatives or replacements. LAMMPS has special dummy styles implemented, that will stop LAMMPS and print a suitable error message in most cases, when a style/command is used that has been removed or will replace the command with the direct alternative (if available) and print a warning.

5.15.1. restart2data tool

Changed in version 23Nov2013.

The functionality of the restart2data tool has been folded into the LAMMPS executable directly instead of having a separate tool. A combination of the commands read_restart and write_data can be used to the same effect. For added convenience this conversion can also be triggered by command line flags

5.15.2. Fix ave/spatial and fix ave/spatial/sphere

Deprecated since version 11Dec2015.

The fixes ave/spatial and ave/spatial/sphere have been removed from LAMMPS since they were superseded by the more general and extensible “chunk infrastructure”. Here the system is partitioned in one of many possible ways through the compute chunk/atom command and then averaging is done using fix ave/chunk. Please refer to the chunk HOWTO section for an overview.

5.15.3. Box command

Deprecated since version 22Dec2022.

The box command has been removed and the LAMMPS code changed so it won’t be needed. If present, LAMMPS will ignore the command and print a warning.

5.15.4. Reset_ids, reset_atom_ids, reset_mol_ids commands

Deprecated since version 22Dec2022.

The reset_ids, reset_atom_ids, and reset_mol_ids commands have been folded into the reset_atoms command. If present, LAMMPS will replace the commands accordingly and print a warning.

5.15.5. LATTE package

Deprecated since version 15Jun2023.

The LATTE package with the fix latte command was removed from LAMMPS. This functionality has been superseded by fix mdi/qm and fix mdi/qmmm from the MDI package. These fixes are compatible with several quantum software packages, including LATTE. See the examples/QUANTUM dir and the MDI coupling HOWTO page. MDI supports running LAMMPS with LATTE as a plugin library (similar to the way fix latte worked), as well as on a different set of MPI processors.

5.15.6. MEAM package

The MEAM package in Fortran has been replaced by a C++ implementation. The code in the MEAM package is a translation of the Fortran code of MEAM into C++, which removes several restrictions (e.g. there can be multiple instances in hybrid pair styles) and allows for some optimizations leading to better performance. The pair style meam has the exact same syntax. For a transition period the C++ version of MEAM was called USER-MEAMC so it could coexist with the Fortran version.

5.15.7. Minimize style fire/old

Deprecated since version 8Feb2023.

Minimize style fire/old has been removed. Its functionality can be reproduced with fire with specific options. Please see the min_modify command documentation for details.

5.15.8. Pair style mesont/tpm, compute style mesont, atom style mesont

Deprecated since version 8Feb2023.

Pair style mesont/tpm, compute style mesont, and atom style mesont have been removed from the MESONT package. The same functionality is available through pair style mesocnt, bond style mesocnt and angle style mesocnt.

5.15.9. MPIIO package

Deprecated since version 21Nov2023.

The MPIIO package has been removed from LAMMPS since it was unmaintained for many years and thus not updated to incorporate required changes that had been applied to the corresponding non-MPIIO commands. As a consequence the MPIIO commands had become unreliable and sometimes crashing LAMMPS or corrupting data. Similar functionality is available through the ADIOS package and the NETCDF package. Also, the dump_modify nfile or dump_modify fileper keywords may be used for an efficient way of writing out dump files when running on large numbers of processors. Similarly, the “nfile” and “fileper” keywords exist for restarts: see restart, read_restart, write_restart.

5.15.10. MSCG package

Deprecated since version 21Nov2023.

The MSCG package has been removed from LAMMPS since it was unmaintained for many years and instead superseded by the OpenMSCG software of the Voth group at the University of Chicago, which can be used independent from LAMMPS.

5.15.11. REAX package

The REAX package has been removed since it was superseded by the REAXFF package. The REAXFF package has been tested to yield equivalent results to the REAX package, offers better performance, supports OpenMP multi-threading via OPENMP, and GPU and threading parallelization through KOKKOS. The new pair styles are not syntax compatible with the removed reax pair style, so input files will have to be adapted. The REAXFF package was originally called USER-REAXC.

5.15.12. USER-REAXC package

Deprecated since version 7Feb2024.

The USER-REAXC package has been renamed to REAXFF. In the process also the pair style and related fixes were renamed to use the “reaxff” string instead of “reax/c”. For a while LAMMPS was maintaining backward compatibility by providing aliases for the styles. These have been removed, so using “reaxff” is now required.

5.15.13. USER-CUDA package

The USER-CUDA package had been removed, since it had been unmaintained for a long time and had known bugs and problems. Significant parts of the design were transferred to the KOKKOS package, which has similar performance characteristics on NVIDIA GPUs. Both, the KOKKOS and the GPU package are maintained and allow running LAMMPS with GPU acceleration.

5.15.14. i-PI tool

Changed in version 27Jun2024.

The i-PI tool has been removed from the LAMMPS distribution. Instead, instructions to install i-PI from PyPI via pip are provided.

5.15.15. LAMMPS shell

Changed in version 29Aug2024.

The LAMMPS shell has been removed from the LAMMPS distribution. Users are encouraged to use the LAMMPS-GUI tool instead.