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Welcome to the ALPS project.

The ALPS project (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations) is an open source effort aiming at providing high-end simulation codes for strongly correlated quantum mechanical systems as well as C++ libraries for simplifying the development of such code. ALPS strives to increase software reuse in the physics community.

Community Check back regularly to read the latest news and information on the people contributing to the project.

User Forum Go here to discuss the ALPS libraries and applications with the community of developers. This is the place to address any questions you encounter while using any codes of the ALPS project.

Papers and Talks Go here to find papers on the ALPS project, talks from the first user workshop and a list of papers citing the ALPS project.

The ALPS software is constantly developed. Below you will find documentation for the most recent release, ALPS 1.3.4, as well as a growing documentation for the next big release of ALPS, dubbed ALPS 2.0, which will be released in the near future. The main new feature of ALPS 2.0 will include:

• New build system using CMake simplifies builds and allows builds on Windows, the Cray XT5 and other platforms that were not supported before
• Binary installer packages
• Binary file format HDF5 uses less space and much faster I/O
• Python-based evaluation and plotting tools are simpler, much more flexible and powerful
• Integration with VisTrails workflow provenance system
• New application: DMFT
• New and more tutorials

More features, new applications, and scalability to petaflop-class machines are planned for ALPS 2.1

ALPS 1.3.4

Setup and Installation Useful information how to install the alps libraries and applications on workstations and clusters.

Running an Application How to run and restart applications on workstations and clusters.

Tutorials and Documentation A series of tutorial web pages that shall facilitate the usage of the ALPS software to solve physics problems.

ALPS 2.0b3

Download and Installation Useful information how to install the alps libraries and applications on workstations and clusters.

Running an Application How to run and restart applications on workstations and clusters.

Tutorials and Documentation We are generating a series of new tutorial web pages that shall facilitate the usage of the ALPS software to solve physics problems.

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