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AMS

The Amsterdam Modeling Suite offers DFT, semi-empirical, reactive force fields and fluid thermodynamics all with an integrated GUI, a powerful AMS driver and python scripting tool PLAMS. The main compute engines are ADF and BAND for electronic structure calculations (DFT), DFTB and MOPAC for more approximate methods to study larger systems.

Available

Starting February 2023, we are only offering ADF and AMS-GUI.

  • Puhti: ADF, Version 2022.103
  • Mahti: ADF, Version 2022.103

License

  • The license entitles software usage by any academic researcher or student of an academic institute where "Academic" means "belonging to a degree-granting institute".
  • The license does not include the right for employees of government labs or other non-academic non-profit research institutes to use the software.
  • The license only allows non-profit non-commercial use.
  • The license excludes all forms of contract research, royalty-bearing activities and other activities leading to monetary benefits.
  • Research groups which need other modules of the AMS suite can obtain a licence for themselves to run the programs on the CSC computers.

Usage

Initialise AMS:

module load ams/2022.103

**Example batch script for Puhti **

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --partition=test
#SBATCH --nodes=2
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=40      # MPI tasks per node
#SBATCH --account=yourproject     # insert here the project to be billed 
#SBATCH --time=00:10:00           # time as `hh:mm:ss`
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1500        # requested memory per process in MB
module purge
module load ams/2022.103
export SCM_USE_LOCAL_IMPI=yes
export SCM_TMPDIR=$PWD/$SLURM_JOB_ID
mkdir -p $SCM_TMPDIR

# Copy an example input file
cp -f $AMSHOME/examples/Benchmarks/ADF/Si35_TZ2P/Si35_TZ2P.inp .
"$AMSBIN/ams" < ./Si35_TZ2P.inp > ./Si35_TZ2P.log

Note

Particularly some property calculations can be very disk I/O intensive. Such jobs benefit from using the fast local storage (NVMe) on Puhti. Using local disk for such jobs will also reduce the load on the Lustre parallel file system.

Example batch script for Puhti using local disk

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --partition=large
#SBATCH --nodes=2
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=40      # MPI tasks per node
#SBATCH --account=yourproject     # insert here the project to be billed
#SBATCH --time=00:10:00           # time as `hh:mm:ss`
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1500        # requested memory per process in MB
#SBATCH --gres=nvme:100           # requested local disk space in GB
module load ams/2022.103
export SCM_USE_LOCAL_IMPI=yes
export SCM_TMPDIR=$LOCAL_SCRATCH

# Copy an example input file
cp -f $AMSHOME/examples/Benchmarks/ADF/Si35_TZ2P/Si35_TZ2P.inp .
"$AMSBIN/ams" < ./Si35_TZ2P.inp > ./Si35_TZ2P.log

Example batch script for Mahti

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --partition=medium
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=128 # MPI tasks per node
#SBATCH --account=yourproject # insert here the project to be billed
#SBATCH --time=00:20:00       # time as `hh:mm:ss`
module purge
module load ams/2022.103
export SCM_TMPDIR=$PWD/$SLURM_JOB_ID
mkdir -p $SCM_TMPDIR

# Copy an example input file
cp -f $AMSHOME/examples/Benchmarks/ADF/Si35_TZ2P/Si35_TZ2P.inp .
"$AMSBIN/ams" < ./Si35_TZ2P.inp > ./Si35_TZ2P.log

The AMS-GUI

AMS comes with an integrated GUI (Graphical User Interface) that makes it easy to set up, run and analyze modelling tasks. You can test the GUI via the Puhti web interface, but for more extensive use we recommend to install the GUI on your own laptop/workstation. For detailed instructions, see the AMS-GUI documentation.

References

Depending on your usage, be careful to properly cite the AMS driver, used calculation engines as well as feature references. For details, see the relevant AMS documentation

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