[Pw_forum] AiiDA released - a new platform for materials' informatics

[Giovanni Pizzi]

Dear Quantum ESPRESSO users,

we are happy to announce that AiiDA - a materials' informatics Python
platform to manage, store, organize, query and share large amounts of
data, calculations, and workflows - has been recently released and can
be freely downloaded from the website http://www.aiida.net.

A preprint describing AiiDA is available on arXiv at
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01163 while extensive code documentation for
users and developers (installation instructions, tutorials, user and
development manuals) is distributed with the code and available
online at

     http://aiida-core.readthedocs.org/en/stable/

The core of the software ("aiida_core") is released under an open-source
MIT license and can be freely downloaded (no registration necessary) from
the AiiDA website or from BitBucket:

     http://www.aiida.net/?page_id=264
     https://bitbucket.org/aiida_team/aiida_core

"aiida_core" is complemented by an extended set of plugins; these are
free and distributed with the code provided you belong to an
academic institution. These plugins provide support for various
simulation packages, including the Quantum ESPRESSO codes pw.x, cp.x,
ph.x, matdyn.x, q2r.x.
This extended version ("aiida_epfl", that includes "aiida_core")
can be obtained from

     http://theossrv1.epfl.ch/aiida_download/

Hoping that you may find AiiDA useful for your research,

Giovanni Pizzi on behalf of the AiiDA team
(http://www.aiida.net/?page_id=34)


-- 
Giovanni Pizzi
Post-doctoral Research Scientist
EPFL STI IMX THEOS
MXC 340 (Bâtiment MXC)
Station 12
CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
Phone: +41 21 69 31124