Last Modified 17 December 1999

STATIC: About Version 1.11

Version 1.11

Version 1.11 of static is a minor upgrade from Version 1.10.

1. Information that should logically be included in the parameter files, including cutoffs, basis set sizes, and form of the overlap parameters are included in the header of the parameter file. Thus the form of the SKIN file has been simplified.
2. The parallel and scalar versions of the code have been merged. This was done by
   1. Installing dummy MPI routines to be used on scalar machines, and
   2. Running a slightly different algorithm when using only one processor. The choice of algorithm is made at runtime. We didn't used a compiler-flag option because we want this program to run on as many machines as possible, and preprocessors are notoriously machine specific.
3. Added a new example to the manual, describing the calculation of elastic constants for cubic systems.

For more information, see the file REVISION_HISTORY in the static distribution.

Note that the distribution of static is password protected. This allows us to more accurately track the users of the program. See Obtaining the Source Code for more information.