ABINIT 5.7.4

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Available downloads

Sources and complete tests

For All platforms (36MB)

Release Notes

*** This release of ABINIT can be used in production, and is more robust than 5.7.3  ***

It has been extensively tested on a Opteron-based architecture, with 5 different compilers,
on an Intel/Xeon machine with intel10.1, and on a Mac OS X/Xeon with gfort43.

For the new features, please, see the release notes, at release_notes

Please, read the installation notes.

Numerical results have been checked, and the few remaining problems are described
in the file KNOWN_PROBLEMS at the top of the package.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THE BUILD OF v5.7.4 :

As for the previous production version v5.6, and unlike, v5.4.4, this new version makes available, by default,
many additional libraries (NetCDF, Nanoquanta/ETSF IO, BigDFT, Wannier90).
Note that, as for ABINITv5.6, we suspect that they might cause some problem
in the build process : your platform will likely differ from all the platforms
that have been used in our systematic tests, or by some developer.

In case you have problems, please consider disabling the build of all these new libraries :

configure --disable-all-plugins

or disabling a few of them, like the following :

configure --disable-netcdf --disable-etsf-io  --disable-bigdft
(choose among --disable-netcdf --disable-etsf-io  --disable-etsf-xc --disable-bigdft --disable-wannier90 )

Note that the parallel build is disabled by default.
You may activate it using the --enable-mpi="yes"
option, provided that the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variables are properly set-up. If this is not
the case, the configure script will abort with the following
error message:

 configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.

For the list of contributors, see the above-mentioned release notes.
Many thanks also to Jean-Michel Beuken, who installed many different compilers for the extensive
testing of the build system.

Have fun !
Xavier