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BURAI-Release-Package (Ver.1.3.2)

 

BURAI-Release-Package (Ver.1.3.2)

This is BURAI-Release-Package, which contains

[ FEATURE OF BURAI 1.3.2 ]

  • Some bugs are fixed.
  • License of BURAI is changed form GNU-GPLv3 to Apache2.0 .

[ FEATURE OF BURAI-tools ]

  • Following tools are included:
    1. Executable files of QE
    2. Executable files of MPI
    3. Example files
    4. Pseudopotential files
  • License of BURAI-tools is GNU-GPLv3 .

[ LICENSE ]
BURAI-Release-Package is licensed under GNU-GPLv3 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt ,
although BURAI 1.3.2 is licensed under Apache2.0 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .


Links:

release of BURAI1.3.1, some bugs are fixed

Fixed Bugs:

  1. Decimal comma became dot, for some languages.
  2. When occupation = "fixed", Fermi energy became HOMO.
  3. "Walking on B.Z." of band calculation is fixed.
  4. Behaviors of "hubbard_u" and "starting_magnetization" are fixed.
  5. Setting verbosity is inhibited.

NOTE:
Bugs of 2-5 are reported by Dr. Konstantin Glukhov (Uzhgorod National University, Ukraine.)


Links:

release of BURAI1.3, for Ubuntu Linux

How to install

  1. download and unzip BURAI1.3_Linux.tgz .
  2. install libraries of Java, as
          sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
          sudo apt-get install openjfx
  3. execute BURAI1.3/makeLauncher.sh, to yield the launcher BURAI.desktop .

[ NOTE ]
If you want to use pre-compiled executables of QE,
GFortran and OpenMPI have to be installed through apt-get.


Links:

release of BURAI1.3, which is a GUI system of Quantum ESPRESSO

Features:

  • You can open the file of VASP: POSCAR and CONTCAR .
  • You can open the file of XCrySDen: *.xsf .
  • You can edit design of atomic viewer, e.g. Ball&Stick model or background color.
  • Some bugs are fixed.

[ NOTE ]
If you want to use MPI for Mac OS-X, the library of OpenMPI has to be installed through MacPorts, as
       sudo port install openmpi-gcc6
       sudo port select --set mpi openmpi-gcc6-fortran


Links:

release of BURAI1.2, which is a GUI system of Quantum ESPRESSO

Features:

  • You can see and create movies of geometry optimization or molecular dynamics.
  • You can build super cells and slab models.
  • Performance of atomic viewer is accelerated and parallelized.
  • Some bugs are fixed.
  • You can Read The Docs. (http://burai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
  • Executables of Quantum ESPRESSO are included (see below).

Executables of Quantum ESPRESSO:

[ NOTE ]
If you want to use MPI for Mac OS-X, the library of OpenMPI has to be installed through MacPorts, as
       sudo port install openmpi-gcc6
       sudo port select --set mpi openmpi-gcc6-fortran


Links:

release of BURAI1.1

 

https://github.com/BURAI-team/burai/releases 

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