The program will be continually updated as we progress with the organization of the workshop.
The final program should be online shortly after the deadline for registering contributed talks has passed on July 1st, 2025.
It will be possible to participate in the workshop remotely, but we encourage in-person participation, particularly for invited and contributed talks.
Like new features planned for GPUs, for example for output writing, state of some packages like KOKKOS. Or this could eventually be covered for example in a workshop that focuses on reproducibility and good/bad practices when working with GPU accelerator packages.
Which features are available for GPUs can be seen on the command and style overview tables as character codes in parenthesis (e.g. here: 5.5. General commands — LAMMPS documentation) . New ports are added incrementally and rarely is there a large bunch of them that warrants a special announcement. Support for new hardware is rare and general changes in the GPU acceleration approach even more so. For KOKKOS, support is dependent on the support in the Kokkos library itself (but even if Kokkos supports it, some adjustments may be needed, e.g. when Kokkos support for a platform is not complete, or a platform does not yet have a feature for that platform that is used in LAMMPS, or LAMMPS has specializations for different Kokkos platforms).
You need to explain, how GPUs are be used for writing output.
If you want to see that, you need to gather a team and organize such a workshop.
We covered porting LAMMPS features to KOKKOS at a workshop last year. Stan’s lectures were recorded and are available online on YouTube
I normally give a “State of the KOKKOS Package” talk at the LAMMPS workshop, which would cover recent our work. Planning to do that again, pending enough space in the schedule.
We have made arrangements with technical support at the meeting venue and we will be able to support presentations from remote via Zoom and we will be creating a live stream on YouTube like for the events in 2024 and 2023.
This will be my first time attending the LAMMPS Workshop, so I apologize if my question is a bit basic.
I would just like to know if virtual participants will also receive a certificate of attendance —given that we will be able to follow the full event remotely, including tutorials and talks —, as I assume is done for in-person attendees.
There are no certificates or anything similar. There is occasionally a request from an in-person participant to get a letter confirming their presence at the meeting to unlock their travel reimbursement.
As with LAMMPS development itself most of the effort for running the meeting is volunteered and thus we have too minimize the amount of time we spend on anything peripheral. This is the only way to make this work without charging people to attend.
Besides, there is no way to confirm that you actually have participated as a virtual participant unless we would put you in front of a tribunal of LAMMPS developers and quiz you about contents of the entire workshop. Nobody wants to do that.
The virtual attendance is a minimalist effort, we simply convert a Zoom session into a YouTube live stream and we have a workshop specific slack for communication.
If you want to participate in the tutorial at the upcoming LAMMPS workshop, you need to install the indicated LAMMPS and LAMMPS-GUI packages with LAMMPS 22 July 2025 and LAMMPS-GUI v1.7.0.
The Ninth LAMMPS Workshop and Symposium will be held August 12-14, 2025 in Albuquerque, NM, USA.