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KIM Quarterly Update (October 2024)
31-Oct-2024
The KIM Quarterly Update for October 2024 has been published with announcements, ongoing developments, and upcoming events.
KIM Quarterly Update (July 2024)
31-Jul-2024
The KIM Quarterly Update for July 2024 has been published with announcements, ongoing developments, and upcoming events.
KIM Quarterly Update (January 2024)
30-Jan-2024
The KIM Quarterly Update for January 2024 has been published with highlights of recent developments, upcoming events, and planned next steps.
kim-api package on conda-forge updated to allow installation of invididual models
29-Jan-2024
The kim-api package on conda-forge has been updated to allow the included kim-api-collections-management utility to automatically download and install any model archived on openkim.org, as well as local models. With the addition of this missing functionality, conda-forge is now the recommended method for obtaining pre-built KIM API binaries.
04-Jan-2024
Prof. Aron Walsh's article "Open computational materials science", published as a feature in Nature Materials, reports on our community's successful efforts to make our research reproducible and reusable. OpenKIM is listed as one of the exemplar projects enabling these efforts.
02-Dec-2023
OpenKIM and our collaborators will be hosting a symposium at the 2024 MACH conference to be held on April 3-5, 2024 in Annapolis, MD. You are invited to submit an abstract! Abstract submission is open until Dec 22nd.
OpenKIM research uncertainty quantification to be presented at NSF/AFOSR workshop
03-May-2023
Mark Transtrum will be presenting OpenKIM research at an NSF and AFOSR-sponsored workshop on error analysis and uncertainty quantification in materials modeling and discovery, June 8-9, 2023 in Arlington, VA.
Call for abstracts for OpenKIM Symposium at the 2023 SES Annual Technical Meeting
11-Apr-2023
OpenKIM will be hosting a symposium at the Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual Technical Meeting to be held in Minneapolis, MN, October 8-11, 2023. You are invited to submit an abstract! Abstract submission is open until May 5.
Agenda for the KIM Symposium at the 2023 Mach Conference is now available
05-Mar-2023
The agenda is now available for the Symposium on "Systems for Fitting, Uncertainty Quantification, Selection and Use of Interatomic Models" orgaized by OpenKIM at the Mach Conference in Baltimore, MD on April 5-7, 2023.
KIM Symposium at 2023 Mach Conferences
22-Nov-2022
OpenKIM wil be hosting a symposium titled "Systems for Fitting, Uncertainty Quantification, Selection and Use of Interatomic Models" at the 2023 Mach Conference to be held in Towson, MD, April 5-7, 2023. Researchers interested in atomistic simulations are invited to submit an abstract and to participate in this exciting event.
KIM REVIEW launches to discuss key articles in molecular simulation
01-Aug-2022
KIM REVIEW will publish commentaries on important articles related to classical molecular simulations of hard and soft matter materials and will invite community participation through forum discussion.
kim-api-2.3.0 released: Re-licensed from CDDL to LGPL-2.1-or-later
17-Mar-2022
This release includes minor bug fixes and improvements. More significantly, we have re-licensed the package under LGPL-2.1-or-later to come in line with our recent policy shift to improve license GPL-compatibility.
01-Dec-2021
An article by Mingjian Wen et al. has been published in Computer Physics Communications describing the KIM-based learning-integrated fitting framework (KLIFF). This is an open source Python package for fitting interatomic potentials, which is supported by the KIM project.
Citation Panels added to all KIM Model Pages
19-Aug-2021
Each KIM Model page now displays the list of all articles that cite the interatomic potential. A machine learning algorithm is used to determine whether the article citing the potential actually used it in computation or simply provides it as a background reference. A word cloud is generated from the abstracts of the using articles to give a sense of the types of physics modeled with the potential.
KIM Team Presents at LAMMPS Virtual Workshop and Symposium 2021!
10-Aug-2021
KIM Team Members Ellad B. Tadmor and Ryan S. Elliott give presentations at the LAMMPS Virtual Workshop and Symposium 2021
KIM Developer Platform v1.0.0 released!
27-Jun-2021
The KIM Developer Platform Docker container has been released on the GitHub Container Registry, allowing immediate access to a preconfigured environment featuring all of the software necessary for using OpenKIM. Click here to get started!
KIM is switching to recommending GPL-compatible licensing
14-Jun-2021
The KIM project is transitioning to GPL-compatible licensing as a best-practice recommendation, and is moving toward adaption of the SPDX standard. These changes will better position the KIM project to fully and faithfully engage the open source community.
MatSci.org discussion forum established by OpenKIM and the Materials Project is thriving
06-May-2021
MatSci.org, intended to foster information exchange across the materials modeling community, currently hosts the discussion forums for 22 major computational materials science projects.
Support added to LAMMPS to query for available KIM models
02-Mar-2021
LAMMPS allows users to perform queries for predictions of KIM models they are using directly in their input scripts. Now, this mechanism has been extended to allow users to also query for all KIM models that support a given set of atomic species and to loop over them.
Support added for LAMMPS potentials that may require reinitialization during run
20-Feb-2021
Some LAMMPS potentials must be reinitalized when the simulation box is changed during a run. Such potentials are now supported through the KIM simulator model interface. Multiple Buckingham potentials for oxides in this class have been added.
New snapshot release of the openkim-models (2021-01-28) binary repository
17-Feb-2021
We are happy to announce the release of a new snapshot of the OpenKIM models library (openkim-models-2021-01-28). This release includes 517 models and is available now from you favorite binary package manager.
New MEAM Driver with a host of parameterizations now available
15-Feb-2021
A new efficient implementation of the modified embedded atom method (MEAM) potential is now available as a KIM Model Driver along with a large number of parameterizations for different material systems.
Talk on OpenKIM and industrial needs for atomistic simulations at the EMMC 2021 Workshop
26-Jan-2021
KIM Director Ellad Tadmor will be giving a talk on "Addressing Industrial Needs for Atomistic Simulations through OpenKIM" at the 3rd EMMC International Workshop EMMC 2021. The workshop will be held online March 2-4, 2021. Tadmor's talk will be on March 3.
DL_POLY 4.10.0 released with support for KIM API 2.0
26-Oct-2020
The latest version of the DL_POLY molecular dynamics packages, which is widely used in simulations of macromolecules, polymers, ionic systems, and solutions, now supports interatomic models archived on openkim.org.
Four talks related to OpenKIM at SES 2020
07-Oct-2020
There were four talks related to OpenKIM at the Society of Engineering Science Technical Virtual Meeting during Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2020.
Version 1.1.0 of the kim-query package released!
24-Aug-2020
The kim-query python package provides a simplified interface for querying the OpenKIM Repository for test results.
24-Jul-2020
An article by Mingjian Wen and Ellad Tadmor has been published in npj Computational Materials that describes a rigorous and efficient approach based on dropout regularization for estimating uncertainty in the predictions of artificial neural network potentials.
The NIST workshop on "Atomistic Simulations for Industrial Needs" will be held online on August 5-7.
21-Jul-2020
The NIST workshop on "Atomistic Simulations for Industrial Needs" is co-organized with the KIM Project and the Army Research Laboratories. The workshop will take place online August 5-7. Registration is open until July 31.
20-Jul-2020
An article by Daniel Karls et al. has been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics that describes design considerations and implementation details of the OpenKIM Processing Pipeline framework.
Central discussion forum for computational materials science established at MatSci.org
08-Jul-2020
The KIM Project is partnering with the Materials Project to co-manage a central discussion forum for computational materials science projects and codes hosted at matsci.org.
"All-in-KIM Campaign" announced
01-Jun-2020
The KIM project is embarking on a major initiative, the "All-in-KIM Campaign," to collect as many interatomic potentials as possible into openkim.org.
Funding information can now be added to OpenKIM items
23-May-2020
Funding information is now associated with all items archived in openkim.org and included in their DOI records.
20-Apr-2020
An article by Erik van der Giessen et al. has been published in Model. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng., which includes a chapter by Ellad Tadmor on "Standards and reproducibility in molecular simulations."
28-Feb-2020
The machine learning Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential (SNAP) has been implemented as a portable model driver and can be used with all KIM-compatible simulation codes.
Highlights from a fantastic year for KIM
11-Jan-2020
2019 was a fantastic year for the KIM project with many significant developments. Read the full news item for the highlights.
16-Aug-2019
Official release the KIM API v2.1.3 package. See the documentation.
16-Jul-2019
Official release the KIM API v2.1.0 package! See the documentation.
28-Mar-2019
Official release the KIM API v2.0.2 package! See the documentation.
05-Mar-2019
The KIM project is seeking an exceptional computational scientist for basic research and infrastructure development to shape the future of molecular simulation.
06-Feb-2019
The KIM development team is very happy to announce the official release the KIM API V2 package! See the documentation.
KIM Now Issuing DOIs for Interatomic Models (and other KIM items)
20-Jan-2019
KIM has become a member of the DOI registration agency DataCite and now issues DOIs (citeable persistent identifiers) to all interatomic models (and other KIM items) uploaded to openkim.org at no charge. Developers are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity, and researchers are encouraged to provide a DOI citation in their work when using an interatomic model.
10-Jan-2019
The KIM project announces changes to the leadership structure with Ryan Elliott as the new KIM Technical Lead, Ronald Miller as the new KIM Editor, and Ellad Tadmor continuing as KIM Director.
New Look for OpenKIM.org Website
08-Jan-2019
The openkim.org website has been redesigned to make it easier for users to find information and perform common tasks.
08-Jan-2019
The mysterious new "Sp" element next to hydrogen is the Element of Surprise. See the full news item for a different view on the chemical elements.
OpenKIM Repository updated to KIM API V2
08-Dec-2018
All content on openkim.org has been updated to KIM API V2
kim-api-v2-2.0.0-beta.3 released
07-Dec-2018
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of a significant new beta version of the KIM API V2 package. See the documentation.
Possible Technical Difficulties during Migration to KIM API V2
07-Dec-2018
We are currently in the process of uploading new models, tests and test results for KIM API V2 to openkim.org. Users may experience intermittent technical difficulties during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience.
kim-api-v2.0.0-beta.2 released
28-Oct-2018
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of a significant new beta version of the KIM API V2 package. See the documentation.
New OpenKIM Advisory Board unanimously approved
03-Aug-2018
The KIM membership voted unanimously to approve the new OpenKIM Advisory Board.
kim-api-v2.0.0-beta.1 and kim-api-v1.9.7 released
07-Jul-2018
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of new versions of the KIM API package. In v2 we have introduced Neighbor List Hints. See the documentation. In v1 there are bug fixes and enhancements.
Three "OpenKIM Coding Sprints" to be held this summer
27-Jun-2018
Three "Coding Sprints" funded by the IMA will be held this summer at the University of Minnesota to develop software related to the KIM project. KIM Team members will work with external experts on focused programming projects.
kim-api-v1.9.6 released — new install options, minor improvements and bug fixes
26-Jun-2018
kim-api-v1.9.6 released with minor improvements to the installation process and bug fixes.
kim-api-v2.0.0-beta.0 released
26-Jun-2018
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.0-beta.0 of the KIM API package. The v2 package has been completely rewritten, offering a simpler interface with many improvements and new features. See the documentation.
kim-api-v1.9.5 released — minor improvements and bug fixes
12-May-2018
kim-api-v1.9.5 released with minor improvements to the installation process and bug fixes.
openkim.org down for maintenance
08-May-2018
Some openkim.org functionality will be temporarily unavailable due to security and maintenance upgrades. The site is expected to be back by Wed 09-May-2018 noon CDT. We apologize for any inconvenience.
OpenKIM seeks help to address KIM API incompatibility on Apple macOS
30-Apr-2018
Due to a bug in gfortran, it is not possible to install the KIM API on Apple macOS. A workaround is available, but we seek help from our users to find a better solution.
Call for Nominations for the KIM Board
23-Apr-2018
Three members of the KIM Board are retiring. Nominations are invited from KIM Members for new Board members by 30-Apr-2018.
KIM Quarterly Update (April 2018)
16-Apr-2018
The KIM Quarterly Update for April 2018 has been published with highlights of recent developments and planned next steps.
New vacancy formation and migration energy tests
13-Apr-2018
New test drivers for monovacancy formation and migration energies in monoatomic cubic and hcp crystals are now online at openkim.org.
kim-api-v1.9.4 released — minor improvements and bug fixes
09-Apr-2018
kim-api-v1.9.4 released with minor improvements to the installation process and bug fixes.
Interesting Results from the 2018 "OpenKIM Survey On the Future of Molecular Simulation"
30-Mar-2018
The "OpenKIM Survey On the Future of Molecular Simulation" was conducted during Dec 20, 2017 to Jan 8, 2018 to help set development priorities for the KIM project. The results provide insight into current practice and future trends in the field.
Two new tests: Linear Thermal Expansion and Stacking Energies for Cubic Crystals
14-Mar-2018
Tests that compute the linear thermal expansion coefficient and a variety of stacking energies for cubic crystals are now available on OpenKIM.
New "Table Visualizer" for Cubic Crystal Properties
15-Feb-2018
A new type of visualizer displaying tabulated information is now available on openkim.org. The table compares the results of different models for key properties of cubic crystals.
New verification check for "Thread Safety"
04-Feb-2018
The thread safety verification check examines whether a model called in parallel by multiple threads gives the same results as when called sequentially.
kim-api-v2.0.0-alpha.0 released - Looking for user/community feedback
18-Jan-2018
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.0-alpha.0 of the KIM API package. The package has been completely rewritten, offering a simpler interface with many improvements and new features.
New discussion forum for interacting with model developers
02-Jan-2018
The new openkim-model-developers group has been set up as a forum where interatomic model developers can talk with each other, and where researchers can contact developers to discuss existing models, and explore opportunities for developing new models.
22-Dec-2017
An article by Mingjian Wen and co-workers has been published in J. Appl. Phys. describing a new Stillinger-Weber type potential for 2D MoS2 that is implemented as a KIM Model Driver. The uncertainty in the potential parameters is determined using a Fisher information theory analysis.
Help set priorities for the OpenKIM Project
20-Dec-2017
Researchers engaged in classical molecular simulations are invited to take a short survey to help the OpenKIM project plan its next development phase. Take the Survey.
New "Verification Checks" ensure interatomic model coding integrity
18-Dec-2017
Interatomic models stored in OpenKIM are now subjected to a suite of "Verification Checks" that put the models through their paces and check that they are programmed correctly.
kim-api-v1.9.1 released — minor improvements and bug fixes
27-Sep-2017
kim-api-v1.9.1 released with minor improvements to the installation process and bug fixes.
kim-api-v1.9.0 released — new "collections management" utility to install/remove KIM models
11-Sep-2017
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.9.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. This release includes dramatic simplifications to the build sysem including a new collections-management user utility to help install and manage models and model drivers.
kim-api-v1.8.2 released — bug fixes
17-Apr-2017
kim-api-v1.8.2 released with bug fixes.
kim-api-v1.8.1 released — bug fixes
28-Mar-2017
kim-api-v1.8.1 released with bug fixes.
17-Jan-2017
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. This release includes improvements to the build system and a new collections-info utility to provide configuration information on the kim-api installation, and to get a list of installed models and model drivers.
06-Jan-2017
A new article by Nikhil Admal and co-workers has been published in JMPS on the atomistic representation of strain-gradient elasticity tensors for arbitrary multilattice crystals. The formulation is implemented as a KIM Test and applied to all compatible models in the OpenKIM repository.
New article on "A KIM-compliant Potfit for fitting sloppy intertomic potentials" published in MSMSE
29-Nov-2016
A new article by Mingjian Wen and co-workers has been published in MSMSE on a KIM-compliant implementation of the Potfit force-matching interatomic potential fitting program. The package includes a new optimization algorithm that performs well for fitting interatomic potentials that are insensitive ("sloppy") with respect to some parameters.
22-Sep-2016
Daniel Karls successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Minnesota on the "Transferability of Empirical Potentials and the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM)." Dr. Karls' dissertation provides an introduction to interatomic models from a new perspective and a discussion of machine learning methods for assessing their transferability, i.e. the ability of a model to describe behavior outside its training set.
Binary installation packages now available for the KIM API for several Unix systems
17-Jul-2016
In an ongoing effort to make it easier to install and use the KIM application programming interface (API), binary installation packages are now available for Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora and openSUSE. On these systems, the KIM API can be installed with a single command.
kim-api-v1.7.3 released — new configure script and other minor improvements
02-Jun-2016
kim-api-v1.7.3 released with a new configure script to customize installations for specific systems, other minor improvements to the installation process, and bug fixes.
"OpenKIM Directory of Interatomic Model Developers" launched!
27-May-2016
A directory of developers of interatomic models is now available on the OpenKIM website. The directory lists researchers engaged in the development of interatomic potentials and force fields along with contact information and details about their work.
LAMMPS 'pair_style kim' command extended to support 'pair_style hybrid' and 'fix adapt'
13-Mar-2016
The pair_style kim command, which allows KIM Models to be used with LAMMPS, has been extended to support the pair_style hybrid and fix adapt commands, as specified in the LAMMPS documentation.
17-Nov-2015
New test results for vacancy formation and migration energies and relaxation volume posted for fcc and hcp crystals for most elements.
New article on "Interpolation effects in tabulated interatomic potentials" published in MSMSE
17-Nov-2015
A new article by Mingjian Wen and co-workers has been published in MSMSE on interatomic models that include functions represented as tables of discrete values with spline interpolation. It is shown that the nature of the interpolation affects model predictions. This highlights the importance of archiving the interatomic model implementation along with model parameters as done in OpenKIM.
DFT reference data uploaded from the Materials Project into OpenKIM
04-Nov-2015
Over 74,000 items of DFT reference data, including equilibrium crystal structures, cohesive energies, and elastic moduli, have been uploaded into the OpenKIM Repository from the Materials Project.
Model predictions now viewable using human-readable "property synopses"
21-Oct-2015
Model predictions (aka Test Results) are stored in machine readable form as EDN files. A new Property Synopsis mechanism has been created to display this information in human-readable form on KIM Model pages.
23-Sep-2015
We are in the process of regenerating our repository. Some content and visualization may not be available during this process.
KIM Quarterly Update (August 2015) — What's new with the KIM project?
13-Aug-2015
KIM Quarterly Update
KIM API version 1.6.0 released — package layout & model location updates
28-Jul-2014
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.6.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. This release includes significant changes to the package directory structure layout, improved build tools, and removal of the deprecated Fortran Cray pointer support.
Online KIM Boot Camp on August 12, 2014
22-Jul-2014
An online KIM Boot Camp will be held on Tuesday August 12, 2014 from 8:00am to 4:00pm CDT. The objectives of the Boot Camp are to teach researchers how to make models and simulators "KIM-compliant" (i.e. compatible with the KIM API), how to develop tests that can be uploaded to KIM to run against the models stored there, and how to develop visualizers for viewing content in the KIM repository. The event will be held at University of Minnesota and broadcast live on the web. Participation is free. To register, email your name and affiliation to Ellad Tadmor at tadmor@umn.edu
KIM API version 1.5.0 released — build system updates
16-Jul-2014
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. This release includes significant updates to the build system to improve the way the package is installed to standard system directories and provides for each user on the system to have their own personal set of Models that the KIM API can access. See the INSTALL file for details.
KIM Workshop for Content Contributors in August 2014
20-Jun-2014
A workshop for researchers interested in contributing content to KIM, called a "KIM Content Carnival" will be held at the University of Maryland during August 18-21, 2014 in College Park, MD. Participation is free but by invitation only (some travel support may be available). For more details and instructions on how to apply see https://openkim.org/news/2014-06-20/.
KIM Symposium at SES 2014 Conference
27-Feb-2014
A symposium titled "Interatomic Models in Materials Simulations: Theory, Standards, Infrastructure, and Applications" focused on the KIM project and related efforts will be held at the Society for Engineering Science (SES) Annual Technical Conference at Purdue University, on October 1-3, 2014 (www.conf.purdue.edu/ses2014).
KIM API version 1.4.0 released — new: Fortran 2003 bindings
26-Feb-2014
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. This release includes a major update to the api. We have added a complete set of api bindings for Fortran 2003 using the iso_c_binding module. The previous Fortran bindings (using Cray pointers) are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. All example Model Drivers, Models, and Tests have been updated to take advantage of the new F03 bindings. Additionally, the make system has been updated to be more robust and the documentation has been updated.
13-Feb-2014
After several years of extensive development, we now have a working website (https://openkim.org) with a repository and a processing pipeline that automatically couples interatomic models (potentials and force fields) and tests (simulations that compute material properties) to generate predictions.
Talk on KIM at the MMVMB II Conference in Berkeley (14-Feb-2014)
05-Feb-2014
The KIM Editor, Prof. Ryan S. Elliott, will be giving a talk on the KIM project at the Multiscale Methods and Validation in Medicine and Biology II: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology conference on Thursday, February 14, 2014.
Talk on KIM at the TMS Conference in San Diego (17-Feb-2014)
02-Feb-2014
The KIM Director, Prof. Ellad Tadmor, will be giving a talk on the KIM project at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in San Diego, CA on Monday, February 17, 2014.
Talk on KIM at the STFC in Daresbury, England (24-Feb-2014)
01-Feb-2014
The KIM Editor, Prof. Ryan S. Elliott, will be giving a talk on the KIM project at the Computational Science and Engineering Department of Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), in Daresbury, Cheshire, UK on Thursday, February 24, 2014.
30-Jan-2014
A new article by Ellad Tadmor and co-workers just published in COSSMS provides an introduction to online frameworks called "cyberinfrastructures" and describes the OpenKIM and CAMS projects supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
KIM API version 1.3.1 released
20-Jan-2014
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.1 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. This release includes updates to the make system, bug fixes, better support of CYGWIN systems, portability improvements, and a fix in order to work with gnu make 3.81.
Updated pair_style kim release in LAMMPS 3Aug13
26-Jul-2013
The KIM development team is please to announce the release of a openkim-api-v1.2.0 compatible version of the LAMMPS pair style kim. The version of pair_style kim is available in the August 3th, 2013 version of lammps (lammps-3Aug13).
KIM API version 1.2.0 released
12-Jul-2013
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. This release includes a completely redesigned Make system with many new features and benefits, a new NEIGH_RVEC_H NBC, a streamlined scheme for specifying a Model (or Model Driver name) and its associated “model_init()” function name, other minor changes to the api, bug fixes, portability improvements, and some new examples.
KIM Content Carnival in Singapore (October 9-12, 2012)
20-Jul-2012
Come to Singapore this fall during October 9-12, 2012 for a 4-day free event, to learn about KIM and make your potential compatible with the KIM Application Programming Interface (API).
KIM API version 1.1.0 released
12-Jul-2012
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. This release includes many bug fixes, portability improvements, an updated Model Driver interface, and some minor changes to functionality.
KIM Content Carnival in Aachen, Germany (August 20-23, 2012)
21-May-2012
Come to Aachen, Germany this summer during August 20-23, 2012 for a 4-day free event, to learn about KIM and make your potential compatible with the KIM Application Programming Interface (API).
First stable version of the KIM API released
23-Feb-2012
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. The interface is computationally efficient and often requires relatively minor changes to existing codes.
07-Feb-2012
The slate of nominees for the KIM Board (Ronald Miller, Sadasivan Shankar and Aidan Thompson) suggested by the Nominating Committe has been unanimously approved by the KIM Membership.
KIM Content Carnival (March 13-16, 2012)
28-Jan-2012
Come to Minnesota during spring break on March 13-16, 2012 for a 4-day event, all expenses paid, to learn about KIM and make your potential compatible with the KIM Application Programming Interface (API).
13-Dec-2011
A one-day short course on atomistic simulations using standardized interatomic potentials will be held at TMS 2012 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando, FL on Sunday, March 11, 2012. The course will cover the basics of atomistic simulations and introduce participants to the use of potentials that conform to the KIM application programming interface (API).
KIM seeking candidates for NSF CI TraCS fellowship
23-Sep-2011
The KIM project is seeking a postdoctoral candidate to sponsor for an NSF Fellowship for Transformative Computational Science using CyberInfrastructure (CI TraCS). The successful candidate will work closely with the KIM PIs to develop a comprehensive and detailed CI TraCS proposal based on the needs and goals of the KIM project. Applications are due by Monday, November 14, 2011.
KIM Requirements Document Launched
20-Sep-2011
The KIM development team is pleased to announce that the KIM Requirements Document (RD) is now available online here. RDs are common in industry where they are used to fully define all aspects of new products during the development stage. The KIM RD addresses topics ranging from the organization and governance of KIM to the details of the KIM application programming interface (API).
20-Sep-2011
The KIM membership is invited to nominate candidates to serve on the KIM Board. Nominations must be received by Friday, September 30, 2011.
KIM API version 0.2.0 released
15-Sep-2011
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.2.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. The interface is computationally efficient and often requires relatively minor changes to existing codes.
Alpha version of KIM API released
08-Aug-2011
The KIM development team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.1.0 of the KIM application programming interface (API). By conforming to this API, an atomistic simulation code will seamlessly work with any KIM-compliant interatomic model written in any supported language. The interface is computationally efficient and often requires relatively minor changes to existing codes.
30-Jul-2011
A feature article by Ellad Tadmor and co-workers published in JOM introduces the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM) project.
01-Jul-2011
A 1-day short course on atomistic simulations using standardized interatomic potentials will be held at the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics in Minneapolis, MN on July 24, 2011. The course will cover the basics of atomistic simulations and introduce participants to the use of potentials that conform to the KIM application programming interface (API).
KIM Inaugural Meeting held in San Diego
01-Mar-2011
The KIM project had its Inaugural Meeting in San Diego, CA, on February 26-27, 2011. Important steps were taken at this meeting to define the goals and structure of KIM based on the needs of the atomistic simulation community.