What is ParaDiS and How to obtain a copy
ParaDiS is a free large scale dislocation dynamics simulation code to study the fundamental mechanisms of plasticity. It was originally developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It is written in C (with a little C++) and uses the MPI library for communication between processors. It runs routinely on 100-1000 processors and scalability on 132,000 processors of BlueGene/L has been demonstrated.
You can go to http://paradis.stanford.edu to obtain a free copy of the source code of ParaDiS. You will need to requestion an account by submitting a username, a password and a brief description of yourself and your research interests. Once your account request is approved, you will receive a confirmation email and you can download the ParaDiS source code. The same web site also contains the documentation of the ParaDiS code, including tutorials and reference manuals.
The source file you obtain should look something like pub-dd3d.v.2.0.tar.gz. It is recommended that you create a ~/Codes directory and extract the source code there.
cd ~/Codes tar zxvf pub-dd3d.v.2.0.tar.gz cd dd3dv2.0
This should create a ~/Codes/dd3dv2.0 directory. We will refer to it as $ParaDiS in the following.