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`What is SPPARKS`_
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* Monte Carlo simulation code [#spparks.authors]_, [#spparks.report]_

  * Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) [#battaile]_
  * Rejection (MC) and Metropolis (MC)

* C++, serial and parallel (using MPI)
* On- and off-lattice, with several lattice choices
* *2-* or *3D* simulations
* Extensibility to many material processes
* Open source [#spparks.website]_



SPPARKS as a Framework
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SPPARKS is an engine to write 'on-lattice' *kinetic monte-carlo* (KMC) *apps*
that can run massively parallel

* Modify an existing *app* or roll your own
* Run existing *apps*


References
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.. [#spparks.authors] 
        SPPARKS Authors: Steve Plimpton, Aidan Thompson, and Alex Slepoy

.. [#spparks.report] 
        S. Plimpton, C. Battaile, M. Chandross andG. Wagner, E. Webb, X. Zhou, C. Garcia Cardona, and
        A. Slepoy. Crossing the mesoscale no-man’s land via parallel kinetic monte carlo. Sandia Report
        SAND2009-6226, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, October 2009.

.. [#battaile] Corbett C. Battaile, The Kinetic Monte Carlo method: Foundation,
               implementation, and application, *Compute Methods Appl. Engrg.*
               197 (2008), 3386-3398.

.. [#spparks.website] http://spparks.sandia.gov

.. _What is SPPARKS: http://spparks.sandia.gov/doc/Section_intro.html#intro_1