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Article Dans Une Revue Computer Physics Communications Année : 2023

Partn: A Plugin Implementation of the Activation Relaxation Technique Nouveau Hijacking a Minimisation Algorithm

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Nowadays, the interoperability and interfacing of codes and libraries have become crucial aspects of software development and engineering, and the basis for enabling and simplifying the sharing of methods and tools, both within and among communities. One of the most important bottlenecks that arises when developing and maintaining an interface of a library with an already existing software, is to keep it aligned with the development route of the latter. This might include significant changes, such as changes in the data structures used by the library, which are communicated through the interface. In this paper, an approach for inserting a new algorithm into existing software is presented, through a minimally invasive interface, that takes over an already present algorithm, and thus changes its original purpose. The approach is applied to the well-established Activation-Relaxation Technique nouveau (ARTn) algorithm, that is revisited and re-engineered to bias and take over the FIRE minimization algorithm, as presently implemented in two community codes for atomistic simulations, namely Quantum ESPRESSO (PWscf) and LAMMPS. ARTn is a well established single-ended saddle-point search algorithm that allows for the exploration of potential energy surfaces. The resulting algorithm acts as a plugin, and is distributed in the form of an external library (pARTn).
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hal-04238051 , version 1 (11-10-2023)

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Matic Poberžnik, Miha Gunde, Nicolas Salles, Antoine Jay, Anne Hémeryck, et al.. Partn: A Plugin Implementation of the Activation Relaxation Technique Nouveau Hijacking a Minimisation Algorithm. Computer Physics Communications, In press, ⟨10.2139/ssrn.4360939⟩. ⟨hal-04238051⟩
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