History
The CASTEP developers will hold a Developer Workshop 20th-23rd August in Oxford, to run concurrently with the user Training Workshop. This workshop will cover the fundamentals required to develop high-quality research methods and tools in CASTEP, as well as hands-on sessions doing practical software development in CASTEP. Dr Hasnip is a theoretical physicist and research software engineer and a lead author of the CASTEP program. He has over 20 years’ experience in ab initio materials modelling, with a particular interest in creating efficient, user-friendly software tools to aid experimental research. CASTEP is a software package which uses density functional theory with a plane wave basis set to calculate electronic properties of solids from first principles. CASTEP is a fully featured first principles code and as such its capabilities are numerous.
CASTEP was created in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the TCM Group of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.[1] It was then an academic code written in Fortran77. In the mid 1990s it was commercialised by licensing it to Molecular Simulations International (the company was later purchased by Accelrys, in turn purchased by Biovia) in an arrangement through which the University of Cambridge received a share of the royalties, and much of the development remained with the original academic authors. The code was then redesigned and completely rewritten from 1999–2001 to make use of the features of modern Fortran, enable parallelism throughout the code and improve its software sustainability. By this point annual sales exceeded £1m.[2] Despite its commercialisation, CASTEP and its source code remained free to UK academics.
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In 2019 the free academic licence was extended to world-wide academic use (not just UK academia). Commercial users can purchase CASTEP as part of Biovia's Materials Studio package.[3]
History
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CASTEP was created in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the TCM Group of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.[1] It was then an academic code written in Fortran77. In the mid 1990s it was commercialised by licensing it to Molecular Simulations International (the company was later purchased by Accelrys, in turn purchased by Biovia) in an arrangement through which the University of Cambridge received a share of the royalties, and much of the development remained with the original academic authors. The code was then redesigned and completely rewritten from 1999–2001 to make use of the features of modern Fortran, enable parallelism throughout the code and improve its software sustainability. By this point annual sales exceeded £1m.[2] Despite its commercialisation, CASTEP and its source code remained free to UK academics.
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In 2019 the free academic licence was extended to world-wide academic use (not just UK academia). Commercial users can purchase CASTEP as part of Biovia's Materials Studio package.[3]