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Get the latest version of the CASINO quantum Monte Carlo code here

Theory of Condensed Matter Group
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

The current version of CASINO was written by: R.J.Needs, M.D.Towler, N.D.Drummond and Pablo López Ríos, Important contributions to the initial development of QMC in this group up to 1996 were made by G.Rajagopal and A.J.Williamson. Additional contributions to CASINO by the following people are gratefully acknowledged: A.R.Porter, R.Q.Hood, W.K.Leung, G.J.Brown, D.Alfè, C.Pickard, A.J.Williamson, R.Gaudoin, B.Wood, Z.Radnai, A.Ma, R.Maezono, P.R.C. Kent, A. Badinski, J.R. Trail, N. Hine, M. Brown, A.J. Morris, K. Esler, N. Nemec, R. Lee, P. Seth, B. Jong, L. Anton, K.A. Schwarz, P. Bugnion and possibly others.

The citation required in any publication quoting results obtained with the current version of CASINO is as follows:
R.J. Needs, M.D. Towler, N.D. Drummond and P. López Ríos, J. Phys.: Condensed Matter 22, 023201 (2010).



Available distributions for users
Standard password required.

CASINO_2.12.1 - Standard version (7.3.2013)
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Old obsolete versions - kept here for reference
CASINO_2.10.2 - Standard version (3.4.2012)
CASINO_2.8d - Standard version (4.7.2011)
CASINO_2.6 - Standard version (12.10.2010)
CASINO_2.5 - Standard version (19.9.2009)
CASINO_2.4 - Standard version (20.7.2009)
CASINO_2.3 - Standard version (17.10.2008)
CASINO_2.2 - Standard version (19.8.2008)
CASINO_2.1 - Standard version (19.7.2007)

Available distributions for developers
Full documented source code. Developer's password required.

CASINO current beta - Developers' version (nightly build)
CASINO_2.12.1 - Developers' version (7.3.2013)
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Old obsolete versions - kept here for reference
CASINO_2.10.2 - Developers' version (3.4.2012)
CASINO_2.8d - Developers' version (4.7.2011)
CASINO_2.6 - Developers' version (12.10.2010)
CASINO_2.5 - Developers' version (19.9.2009)
CASINO_2.4 - Developers' version (20.7.2009)
CASINO_2.3 - Developers' version (17.10.2008)
CASINO_2.2 - Developers' version (19.8.2008)
CASINO_2.1 - Developers' version (19.7.2007)
CASINO_2.0 - Developers' version (23.8.2006)
Earlier versions back to 1997 available on request


CASINO manual
Note this is part of the standard and developer's distributions
- separate download not necessary.

Available formats : PDF


List of changes to the code

DIARY - CASINO current beta (updated daily)
DIARY - CASINO 2.12 and previous


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This page last modified 03/07/13