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General information
Code homepage: https://siesta-project.org/siesta/
Full documentation: https://siesta-project.org/siesta/Documentation/index.html
Source code: https://gitlab.com/siesta-project/siesta
Detailed information
Short description: SIESTA is both a method and its computer program implementation, to perform efficient electronic structure calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of molecules and solids. SIESTA's efficiency stems from the use of a basis set of strictly-localized atomic orbitals. A very important feature of the code is that its accuracy and cost can be tuned in a wide range, from quick exploratory calculations to highly accurate simulations matching the quality of other approaches, such as plane-wave methods.