Well, some of you have been regular readers (and commentors) for my ramblings in this part of the e-world and such of those have known that I have been in Europe - Jülich, Germany - to be precise. However, while chatting with few of my friends, I noticed an incoherent idea as to why yours-truly [...]

During the past several months (almost seven to be precise), I have had countably infinite attempts at getting some programs to work in our research group machines — some of you have read/responded to my previous entries (recent, not so recent) and some others have helped via email. Since VASP v4.6.28 [...]

Sir Isaac Newton was certainly wrong when he (or some one before him) postulated that time flows at a pre-determined, uniform pace…. And though contrary of this statement/postulate has been my experience on more than handful of occasions, it has rarely been bitter than in the past three weeks. Time during this period has flown [...]

I knew this would catch your attention - before you come out all the way to Houghton to kill me, give me a fair chance to explain: I will start out with describing the title. SIESTA is not what you generally know it as - but it’s an acronym for Spanish Initiative for Electronic Simulations [...]