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# Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP)

## Introduction

The  Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package [(VASP)](https://www.vasp.at/) is licensed, proprietry software for atomic scale materials modelling from first principles.

## Availability

VASP licenses are issued to research groups. They are not available institution-wide or department-wide. Those who have a license can download  packages for installation.

https://www.vasp.at/faqs/

To use VASP, you must be part of a research group which has a VASP license. ARC provides some centrally installed versions of VASP. To use those installations, you must be a member of an appropriate unix group.