Yambo: news

News

3/8/2010
HPC-Europe 2: call for proposals

The Yambo team is pleased to inform you that the HPC-Europe 2 has opened a new Call for Proposals. Next deadlines for submitting applications are: September 15^th 2010 (27^th Call), November 15^th 2010 (28^th Call). All the applications submitted from now on will be reviewed by the new selection panel and, if accepted, funded under the HPC-EUROPA2 Project. More information about HPC-Europe 2 project on their web site.

26/7/2010
Hands-on Workshop annoucement: nanoexcite2010

SISSA and CNR-IOM-DEMOCRITOS are organizing a Hands-on Workshop on electronic excitations, nanoexcite2010. The Workshop will be held at SISSA (Trieste, Italy) in October 18^th-22^th, 2010. The Yambo code will participate to the Workshop with lectures given by several members of the Yambo Team, hands'on classes and tutorials. The school will be attended by a maximum of around 40 participants. The school is NOT meant to introduce the basic concepts of TDDFT and MBPT and applicants are required to have already a solid background in: DFT, TDDFT, MBPT (GW and BSE) and Solid state physics. For further informations and subscriptions please visit the web-page.

22/7/2010
Yambo on Cineca SP6, Arina and Niflheim clusters

Yambo has been officially installed on one of the machines of the Italian Supercoputing Center, Cineca, on the computer center of Basque Country University SGI and on the Niflheim supercomputer cluster at Technical University of Denmark. More informations can be found here: Yambo@Cineca , Yambo@SGI, Yambo@DTU.

9/7/2010
Note on revision numbering

Regular users of the Yambo repository will notice that the revision numbering has apparently been reset to 1: this coincides with the creation of a separate Yambo GPL source on QE-forge (see the forum announcement for details). The new repository contains the source files for the first official tarball releases (3.1.2 (r300), 3.2.0 (r315), and 3.2.1 (r448) are present as new revisions 1, 2, and 3), as well as newer commits. However, Yambo still internally makes use of the old revision numbering, as seen in the report files, e.g. new revision 4 outputs:

# GPL Version 3.2.2 Revision 616

Thus when reporting problems, make sure to quote the internal revision number!

7/6/2010
Yambo GPL repository now on-line!

The Yambo repository and download page have been moved on the QE-Forge. QEforge is a web portal offering an integrated software development environment: CVS or SVN repository, mailing lists, public forums, download space, wiki pages and much more. QEforge is hosted and maintained by the Democritos National Research Center, in collaboration with SISSA eLab. The goal is to make QEforge a prime source of scientific software for scientists all over the world. More informations in the Download page.

7/5/2010
Yambo: for all your high-quality publication needs!

The publication of Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226804 (2010) brings to 14 the number of articles using Yambo to appear in Phys. Rev. Letters, not to mention an Applied Physics Letters in 2010 and two Nano Letters in 2009. We are particularly happy to see papers gradually appearing from independent users, who have benefitted from our decision to release a GPL version of the code back in September 2008. With the User Forum growing in popularity, we sincerely hope this trend continues!

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10/02/2010
Yambo in the top 25
The Yambo paper is among the top 25 hottest articles of Computer Physics Communications for the July-September 2009 period.

19/2/2010
HPC-Europe 2: call for proposals

The Yambo team is pleased to inform you that the HPC-Europe 2 has opened a new Call for Proposals. Next deadline for submitting applications is February 28, 2010. All the applications submitted from now on will be reviewed by the new selection panel and, if accepted, funded under the HPC-EUROPA2 Project. More information about HPC-Europe 2 project on their web site.

19/2/2010
European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility: new call for proposals

The Yambo team is pleased to inform you that the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) has opened a new Call for Proposals. Analogous with users of existing large experimental research infrastructures, such as synchrotron facilities, scientists from any other organisation, public- or private-sector, can propose projects for which, if they are accepted by the evaluation process, scientific and technical support will be provided by ETSF members. Experimentalists and theoreticians are now invited to submit a proposal. The call will close at 17:00 CET on Tuesday 21st April 2010. Information about ETSF and its expertise can be found on its web site.

14/01/2010
The Yambo tutorial-day at the Benasque 2010: Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory: Prospects and Applications school is over. Talks and pictures have been uploaded in the Events page.

30/11/2009
Press page added and more documents in the lecture page.

November 2009
Yambo: a cover story!
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The paper Ab initio electronic and optical spectra of free-base porphyrins: the role of electronic correlation by Maurizia Palummo, Conor Hogan, Francesco Sottile, Paolo Bagala', and Angel Rubio, was recently published in the Journal of Chemical Physics, where it made the front cover. It has been also identified on the list of Journal of Chemical Physics Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles in September 2009. In the paper, Yambo was used to apply the GW and BSE methods, traditionally used in physics applications, to a kind of system normally studied by quantum chemists by means of (the more computationally demanding) wavefunction-based approaches, namely, porphyrin molecules. Yambo yielded excitation spectra in good agreement with experimental data and with quantum chemical results, and thus offers chemists an alternative or complementary means for studying such kinds of isolated systems.

Yambo on the JCP cover!

14/11/2009
Several updates and changes
Added pictures and movies of the 2008 and 2006 Benasque schools (events), and more developers in the team page.

11/11/2009
Lectures note page added.
Claudio Attaccalite has created a Lecture Notes page where it is possible to download free documents covering most of the basic concepts used in the Yambo code.

7/10/2009
Yambo repository moved!
Important change in the access to the Yambo SVN repository: the Yambo SVN repository has been moved to a new server. Please check the download page for more informations.

1/9/2009
SVN server problems.
Two weeks ago the server anomaly.roma2.infn.it had serious hardware problems and was shut down. The repository has been migrated to another temporary machine. We created a DNS alias in order to be able to access the repository still using the hold hostname (anomaly). Please report to yambo@yambo-code.org any problem in connecting to anomaly.

24/7/2009
Yambo paper published !
The Yambo paper has been published on Computer Physics Communications. You can download the paper here. Remember to acknowledge Yambo in your papers by citing this article!

7/7/2009
3.2.1 (revision 448) released.
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Important change in the access policy of the Yambo SVN repository: yambo is a member of the software tools supported by the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF). The ETSF asked us to monitor the number of yambo users. While this is easy to do for the users that download the source directly from the yambo web-page there is not easy way to controll the accesses to the SVN respository. For this reason the SVN repository is now password protected. Of course the SVN repository will remain freely accessible, and anyone can have the password. To this end it is enough to send an E-mail to yambo@yambo-code.org asking for the access to the SVN repository.

26/3/2009
Yambo talk at the 4^th Abinit workshop
Andrea gave a general talk about Yambo at the the 4^th Abinit workshop in Autrans (France). You can find the pdf in the events page.

20/3/2009
Yambo forum is up!
We have just started the Yambo Forum. The success of the forum and of the yambo project is linked to the feedback we will receive from the users. So, users are invited to register and to participate to the discussions.

11/3/2009
European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility: new call for proposals
The Yambo team is pleased to inform you that the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) is publishing its fourth Call for Proposals. Experimentalists and theoreticians are now invited to submit a proposal. The call will close at 17:00 CET on Tuesday 7th April 2009. Information about ETSF and its expertise can be found on its web site.

10/2/2009
Yambo paper published !
The Yambo paper has been accepted for publication on Computer Physics Communications. You can download the paper here. Remember to cite Yambo in you papers using this article !.

2/12/2008
Added Andrea Marini's personal page

17/10/2008
3.2.0 (revision 315) released.
This version is also hosted in the Computer Physics Communications Program Library and released with the yambo paper published on Computer Physics Communications.
Download the source or the patch to revision 300.

1/9/2008
First GPL version 3.1.2 (revision 300) released.
Download the source