[CPMD-list] Concerning CPMD Tutorials

[Axel Kohlmeyer]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, John Kofi Dogbe wrote:

JD> Dear CPMD User,

dear john,

JD> I just visited the CPMD tutorial page put together by Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer.
JD> I do not have any questions at this point but I would like express my
JD> gratitude to him as a CPMD user for putting up the page. Even though I
JD> have been using CPMD for sometime now and already familiar with a large
JD> part of the stuff on the page, I still find many other hints and links
JD> here and there very useful. It also gives me the confidence that I've been
JD> doing things right.

thank you very much. i hope that it will motivate more people to share
their experiences using CPMD, so everybody can benefit from it.

occasionally i hear people complaining (mostly off-list) about the lack of
good documentation for CPMD or people doing stupid things with CPMD, but
unless 'those who know'(TM) help to provide the information it will stay
that way. personally, i find it a bit embarrassing for the CPMD
'community', that despite the many very smart people coming up with the
algorithms, methods and codes, there is so little done to make them
accessable to others. in that context it may be interesting to note, 
that i have been exposed to the CPMD code for less than five years and 
have been using it seriously and trying to understand the physics behind 
it for less than three years.

JD> So, Dr. Axel thank you for putting up the tutorial page and I look forward
JD> to visiting the page more often to take advantage of the more advance

let me take this opportunity to thank those of you, who post questions
on cpmd-list, since this is the place where most of the inspiration
and motivation comes from. in retrospect i find it extremely amazing,
how much one can learn simply by trying to answer questions...

JD> features of CPMD as you post them. By the way are there any plans to give
JD> a list of subroutines that users with guts to delve into the code and see
JD> what CPMD is really doing? Together with the manual, one can get a clearer
JD> picture on usage ... It's time consuming to do so right now since one has
JD> to go guessing the appropriate routine.

please have a look at the htmldoc.tar.gz (written by thierry 
deutsch) package in the contrib section of the cpmd.org download 
area. this contains a python script which will transform an existing 
CPMD source tree into a interconnected tree of html or xml pages, 
so you can browse through the sources and follow the flow of the 
code with a web browser.

regards,
	axel.

JD> 
JD> Ok. Thanks again Dr. Axel and all other who contribute to the tutorial
JD> page.
JD> 
JD> Regards from the sunny but freezing desert town of Nevada(?).
JD> John

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