This is the SPARTA software package.

SPARTA stands for Stochastic PArallel Rarefied-gas Time-accurate
Analyzer.

Copyright (2014) Sandia Corporation.  Under the terms of Contract
DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains
certain rights in this software.  This software is distributed under
the GNU General Public License.

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SPARTA is a Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) code designed to run
efficiently on parallel computers.  It was developed at Sandia
National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy facility, with
funding from the DOE.  It is an open-source code, distributed freely
under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

The primary authors of the code are Steve Plimpton and Michael Gallis,
who can be emailed at [email protected] and [email protected].  The
SPARTA web site at http://sparta.sandia.gov has more information about
the code and its uses.

The SPARTA distribution includes the following files and directories:

README			   this file
LICENSE			   the GNU General Public License (GPL)
bench                      benchmark problems
data                       files with species/reaction params, surface files
doc                        documentation
examples                   simple test problems
lib                        additional library files
python                     Python wrapper on SPARTA as a library
src                        source files
tools                      pre- and post-processing tools

Point your browser at any of these files to get started:

doc/Manual.html	           the SPARTA manual
doc/Section_intro.html	   hi-level introduction to SPARTA
doc/Section_start.html	   how to build and use SPARTA
doc/Developer.pdf          SPARTA developer guide