The source code for the latest CASTEP version, CASTEP 16.1, has just been released for all UK academics. You can find it here on CCPForge in the Releases section. This version's numbering convention has changed from the previous one - what should have been called CASTEP 9.0 is now 16.1 due to the new method adopted by our BIOVIA partners for their Material Studio software.

The new version of the code includes many new functionalities, like the support for OpenMP parallelism,

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After missing a couple of release announcements, here is the announcement for CASTEP 6.1.1

This is a minor bugfix release to 6.1.  UK academic users can download in the "castep" files area.  There is a patch for the EU academic license ditribution in the new "CASTEP-Patches" files area.

For details of new features and bugfixes, please see the RELEASE.NOTES file.

 

 

I am very pleased to announce the academic release of CASTEP version
5.5 under the UKCP/Accelrys and developer collaboration agreements.

Hilights are

- Band parallelism
- Semi-empirical dispersion forces (DFT+D)
- Enhancements to MD
- Enhancements to phonon calculations and thermodynamics
- Corrected B3LYP functional
- Geometry output after optimization in CIF or .cell format
- Improvements to build system
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I am pleased to announce the release under the UK academic license of version 5.0 of CASTEP.

I am pleased to announce the release under the UK academic license
of version 4.4 of CASTEP.

The major change in CASTEP 4.4 is the introduction of an optimised "gamma-point" mode which will nearly halve both CPU and memory requirements for large jobs which use a single electronic k-point, k=0 for BZ sampling.

New functionality includes

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<li> CML output</li>
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