This is the SPPARKS (11 Nov 2009) software package.

SPPARKS stands for Stochastic Parallel PARticle Kinetic Simulator.

Copyright (2009) Sandia Corporation.  Under the terms of Contract
DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains
certain rights in this software.  This software is distributed under
the GNU General Public License.

NOTE: In special cases, by request, SPPARKS can also be released under
the GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL, not the GPL.  This is
the case if you have a README.LGPL and LICENSE.LGPL file.  If not,
this is a GPL version of SPPARKS.

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SPPARKS is a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) code designed to run
efficiently on parallel computers using both KMC and Metropolis Monte
Carlo algorithms.  It was developed at Sandia National Laboratories, a
US Department of Energy facility, with funding from the DOE.  It is an
open-source code, distributed freely under the terms of the GNU Public
License (GPL).

The developers of SPPARKS are Steve Plimpton, Aidan Thompson, and Alex
Slepoy.  They can be contacted at sjplimp@sandia.gov,
athomps@sandia.gov, and alexander.slepoy@nnsa.doe.gov.  The SPPARKS
WWW Site at http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/spparks.html has more
information about the code and its uses.

This SPPARKS distribution includes the following files and
directories:

README			   this file
LICENSE			   the GNU General Public License (GPL)
doc			   documentation
examples		   simple test problems
src			   source files
tools			   auxiliary tools

Point your browser at any of these files to get started:

doc/Manual.html	           the SPPARKS manual
doc/Section_intro.html	   hi-level introduction to SPPARKS
doc/Section_start.html	   how to build and use SPPARKS