This is the SPPARKS (11 Nov 2009) software package. SPPARKS stands for Stochastic Parallel PARticle Kinetic Simulator. Copyright (2009) Sandia Corporation. Under the terms of Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. NOTE: In special cases, by request, SPPARKS can also be released under the GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL, not the GPL. This is the case if you have a README.LGPL and LICENSE.LGPL file. If not, this is a GPL version of SPPARKS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SPPARKS is a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) code designed to run efficiently on parallel computers using both KMC and Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithms. It was developed at Sandia National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy facility, with funding from the DOE. It is an open-source code, distributed freely under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). The developers of SPPARKS are Steve Plimpton, Aidan Thompson, and Alex Slepoy. They can be contacted at sjplimp@sandia.gov, athomps@sandia.gov, and alexander.slepoy@nnsa.doe.gov. The SPPARKS WWW Site at http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/spparks.html has more information about the code and its uses. This SPPARKS distribution includes the following files and directories: README this file LICENSE the GNU General Public License (GPL) doc documentation examples simple test problems src source files tools auxiliary tools Point your browser at any of these files to get started: doc/Manual.html the SPPARKS manual doc/Section_intro.html hi-level introduction to SPPARKS doc/Section_start.html how to build and use SPPARKS