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Introduction
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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. The
program performs self-consistent calculations for both Local Density
Approximation (LDA) and various Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA)
exchange-correlations potentials, using state-of-art iterative algorithms. The
code may perform molecular dynamics / structural relaxation simultaneous with
solving the Schrodinger equations within density functional theory. The
program may be compiled for seriel as well as parallel execution and the code
has been ported to many hardware platforms.

The current version is controlled externally from ASE_

The previous version of ASE/Dacapo is `here`_. 


.. _ASE: http://www.fysik.dtu.dk/campos/ASE/index.html
.. _here: http://oldwww.fysik.dtu.dk/CAMPOS/
