Castep Software
History
(CASTEP) is a business programming bundle that utilizes thickness practical hypothesis with a plane wave premise set to compute the electronic properties of crystalline solids, surfaces, atoms. Download a copy of the PDF file. Install the Adobe PDF Reader and add-on for Internet Explorer. Ensure that the Adobe PDF Reader add-on is installed and enabled.
CASTEP was created in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the TCM Group of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.[1] It was then an academic code written in Fortran77. In the mid 1990s it was commercialised by licensing it to Molecular Simulations International (the company was later purchased by Accelrys, in turn purchased by Biovia) in an arrangement through which the University of Cambridge received a share of the royalties, and much of the development remained with the original academic authors. The code was then redesigned and completely rewritten from 1999–2001 to make use of the features of modern Fortran, enable parallelism throughout the code and improve its software sustainability. By this point annual sales exceeded £1m.[2] Despite its commercialisation, CASTEP and its source code remained free to UK academics.
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Castep Software Development
In 2019 the free academic licence was extended to world-wide academic use (not just UK academia). Commercial users can purchase CASTEP as part of Biovia's Materials Studio package.[3]