Developers

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Whatever language you write in, your task as a programmer is to do the best you can with the tools at hand. A good programmer can overcome a poor language or a clumsy operating system, but even a great programming environment will not rescue a bad programmer. —Kernighan and Pike

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This section is for the developers of Octopus. If you are a new developer, please start by reading the Starting to develop page.

General

• Who we are
• A TODO list (from long ago)
• Removed Features
• Octopus logo
• Preparing a Release
• Big Changes: notes for the page Manual:Updating to a new version after a release
• Changes: notes for the page Changes after a release
• External Libraries
• Debugging
• Octopus Cheeseburger: octopus for the masses

Coding manual

• Starting to develop
• Workflow
• Coding standards
• Preprocessing
• Writing Documentation
• Regression testing
• Operations by blocks
• Doxygen documentation
• Input variables
• Slides of a tutorial for Octopus developers

Optimization, Benchmarks and Profiling

• LCAOStart Benchmark
• profiling of the parallelization in domains
• A Poisson_benchmark
• Timing results for the Octopus testsuite
• Speed-up of nonblocking collectives for $H|\psi \rangle \,\!$
• OpenMP Parallelization
• References about cache optimization
• Restart-files benchmark
• Developers:Tests to be added
• Developers:Tutorials to be added

External Tools

You can use the following tools to view/analyze octopus

• gitlab
• BuildBot
• Source code documentation
• How to use SVN (Deprecated)

By the way, you may want to see how the code is evolving with time:

http://octopus-code.org/img/oct_lines640.png

Code documentation

• Grids
• Ion-Ion interaction
• Dielectric function
• Exchange and Correlation
• Linear Response
• Parallelization
• LOBPCG
• Open Boundaries/Transport
• Forces
• Double Grid
• Separation of the pseudopotential
• BerkeleyGW

Detailed description of several pseudopotential formats.

• ABINIT description of the pseudopotential file format used by the ABINIT code.
• fhi98PP description of the pseudopotential file format used by the Fritz-Haber Institut norm-conserving pseudopotential generator.
• FHI98md description of the pseudopotential file format used by the Fritz-Haber Institut FHI98md code.
• PWscf description of the pseudopotential file format used by the PWscf code.

Meetings

• Meeting minutes from IRC sessions or local meetings.
• Octopus Developers Meeting 2012.
• Octopus Developers Meeting 2015.
• Videoconference meeting autumn 2015.
• Videoconference meeting spring 2016
• Videoconference meeting autumn 2016
• Octopus Developers Meeting 2016.
• Videoconference meeting spring 2017
• Videoconference meeting winter 2018
• Videoconference meeting February 2019
• Videoconference meeting April 2019
• Videoconference meeting July 2019
• Octopus Developers Workshop 2019
• Octopus Developers Workshop 2021

Votes

• Votes