FEASST: Free Energy and Advanced Sampling Simulation Toolkit

README

The Free Energy and Advanced Sampling Simulation Toolkit (FEASST) is a free, open-source, public domain software to conduct molecular and particle-based simulations with Monte Carlo methods.

Note

Manuscript: https://doi.org/10.6028/jres.123.004

Website: https://pages.nist.gov/feasst/

Website DOI: https://doi.org/10.18434/M3S095

Code repository: https://github.com/usnistgov/feasst

Discussion list: https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/d/forum/feasst

Features

Plugins contains the list of features available. Some features include but are not limited to the following:

Monte Carlo simulation techniques

Metropolis
Wang-Landau
Transition-matrix
Mayer-sampling

Thermodynamic ensembles

Microcanonical ensemble
Canonical ensemble
Grand canonical ensemble
Temperature and growth expanded ensembles

Monte Carlo trials

Translation, rotation, crankshaft, pivot
Rigid cluster rotation and translation
Configurational bias transfers and partial regrowth
Dual-cut configurational bias
Aggregation volume bias
Reptation
Branches

Interaction potentials

Hard spheres
Lennard-Jones with LRC, cut and force shift
Patchy particles
Yukawa and charged interactions
Ewald summation and 2D slab correction
Bonds, angles and dihedrals
TraPPE small molecules and n-alkanes
Slab, cylindrical and spherical confinement
Cell list and neighbor list

Modern software

Interface with C++ or as a Python module
OpenMP parallelization and prefetching
Checkpoint files to save, restart and analyze simulations

How to install (e.g., compile the executables).

[apt/yum/brew] install g++ cmake git
git clone https://github.com/usnistgov/feasst.git
mkdir feasst/build
cd feasst/build
cmake ..
make install -j4
# optional python packages for feasst tutorials
pip install ../pyfeasst jupyter matplotlib pandas scipy

The executables fst, which is used to start a simulation, and rst, which is used to restart a simulation, should now be located in /path/to/feasst/build/bin/.

Troubleshooting install

Please Contact us if you run into an issue not listed below.

CentOS 7

CMake version is usually too old. Try the command cmake3 instead of cmake.

Windows 10

Install Windows subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 16)
See Ubuntu 16

Ubuntu 16

Update to CMake 3 (https://cmake.org/download/)

macOS Mojave

for omp, try brew install libomp

Cray (NERSC CORI)

OpenMP functions apparently do not work unless the cray programming environment is disabled.

Ubuntu 18, 20, 22

We are not aware of any issues with these OS.

Documentation for a specific version of FEASST

You can access the documentation of a specific version of FEASST as follows.

git clone https://github.com/usnistgov/feasst.git
cd feasst
git checkout nist-pages
git log
# find the commit of your version from git log
# (e.g., 0.19.0 is a50b4fe943832f012373f23658a9497990d70d21)
git checkout a50b4fe943832f012373f23658a9497990d70d21
google-chrome index.html

Contact

Project lead

Harold Wickes Hatch

https://www.nist.gov/people/harold-wickes-hatch

harold.hatch@nist.gov

Bug reporting

Any and all bug reports are greatly appreciated in order to improve FEASST.

The following checklist is recommended to improve reproducibility so that I can get back to you more quickly.

Reproduce the issue with a minimal example to reduce the complexity, run time and file size.
Provide all output.
Provide the version (for a git install, bash command “git describe –abbrev=10 –dirty –always –tags” and commit from git log).
Provide the user code (e.g., text file, C++ with int main() or .py file).

Optionally, the following information may also be useful:

the output of the “cmake ..” command on an empty build directory in order to see which compilers and libraries are used in the installation.

Email list

http://list.nist.gov/feasst

Github issue tracker

https://github.com/usnistgov/feasst/issues

Disclaimer

Certain commercial firms and trade names are identified in this document in order to specify the installation and usage procedures adequately. Such identification is not intended to imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor is it intended to imply that related products are necessarily the best available for the purpose.

License

This license was obtained from https://www.nist.gov/director/licensing (revised as of July 2017).

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