Dacapo
WARNING: The Dacapo code is not being maintained any longer and should not be used for any new projects!
Description
Dacapo is a total energy program based on density functional theory. It uses a plane wave basis for the valence electronic states and describes the core-electron interactions with Vanderbilt ultrasoft pseudo-potentials. For an overview see the Pseudopotential_Library page.
Calculations using dacapo are done using the Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE).

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Get Started
- Go to the Introduction to dacapo.
- Take a look at the Manual, Examples and Tutorials.
- Download and install Dacapo.