The meaning of the name CP2K

ilya ily... at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 13:32:15 UTC 2008


Thanks! I had some thoughts that it may be something like you wrote.

Ilya.

On Oct 1, 3:27 pm, Juerg Hutter <hut... at pci.uzh.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> the name is derived from the CPMD code and the original meaning
> was the CP (Car-Parrinello = ab initio MD) code for the
> new Millenium. Never mind that we didn't implement the
> CP method.
>
> Juerg
>
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> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, ilya wrote:
>
> > Dear developers,
>
> > just a simple question: what does the name CP2K stands for? I didn't
> > see the meaning of this acronym (is it an acronym?) anywhere. I guess
> > 2K stands for the year 2000 (the year when CP2K first appeared). And
> > what is CP then? Just interesting.
>
> > Sincerely,
> > Ilya.


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