ETSF software distribution packaged as a bootable live CD. Comes with documentation and tutorials. Requires a pentium class computer with at least 512 MB memory.
View a ten-minute screencast to see how it works.
ABINIT is a package whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge density and electronic structure of systems made of electrons and nuclei (molecules and periodic solids) within Density Functional Theory (DFT), using pseudopotentials and a planewave basis. Production version. Built for i686 Linux, OSX and Windows (32 bit)
DP is a linear response time-dependent density functional theory code in frequency reciprocal space on a plane waves basis set to calculate dielectric and optical properties. New development release, optimized for i686 (32 bit)
EXC is an exciton code working in reciprocal space, frequency domain and using plane waves basis to calculate dielectric and optical properties. Optimized for i686 (32 bit)
Tosca is a package for computing optical spectra of solids in the IP-RPA approximation able to study complex systems like surfaces or clusters, compiled for i386 (32 bit)
Octopus is package aimed at the simulation of the electron-ion dynamics of finite systems under the influence of time-dependent electromagnetic fields. It has used to calculate linear and non-linear absorption spectra, harmonic spectra, laser induced fragmentation. Requires Sparskit 2.18. Optimized for i686 (32 bit)
fhi98PP generates norm-conserving pseudopotentials of the Hammann and Troullier-Martins types, employing common parameterizations of the local-density approximation and generalized gradient approximations for exchange and correlation. Compiled for i586 (32 bit)
PSPConvert is a conversion tool between fhi, cpi and ncpp pseudopotential file formats written in Python 2.4. Requires pygsl-0.9.3.
Yambo performs Many-Body calculations in solid state and molecular physics, relying on the Kohn-Sham wavefunctions generated by two DFT Abinit and PWscf packages. This development release replaces the Self package (32 bit)
V_Sim visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain boundaries, ... either in .d3 or in plain text format. Built on CentOS 5 and Ubuntu 8.04 (32 bit)
Sparskit is a basic toolkit for sparse matrix computations by Yousef Saad. Required by Octopus. Built on CentOS 5 (32 bit)
PyGSL provides a python interface for the GNU scientific library GSL. Required by PSPConvert. Built on CentOS 5 (32 bit)
For the individually installable files – minimum requirements: an Intel/AMD i686 class computer with 256 MB RAM and 100 MB free hard disk space / a recent Debian or Redhat Linux operating system.
Most Linux variants come with some sort of installation management software namely dpkg for Debian (Knoppix, Ubuntu, …) and rpm for Redhat style distributions (Fedora, OpenSUSE, ...). From a terminal window, the packagename.rpm can be installed to a subdirectory in the /opt tree by invoking sudo rpm ‑ivh packagename.rpm. Running the yum utility may solve dependencies errors. Similarly, the packagename.deb will be installed by sudo dpkg ‑I packagename.deb and missing dependencies solved with apt‑get. Tar files contain relocatable binaries; uncompress with gzip or bzip2 utilities and install with tar.
For the ISO files – minimum requirements: an Intel/AMD i686 class computer with at least 512 MB RAM, mouse and graphic display.
They contain a binary image of bootable Linux operating system with the ETSF software preinstalled in the /opt directory tree. After burning the .iso file to a CD(R or RW), the disk is inserted to cold boot the computer and is designed to automatically detect hardware components and to operate from RAM without installing anything on the user hard disk.