Lattice Dynamics via Emscripten
Conduct lattice dynamics calculations for atomic models.
- M. T. Dove, Introduction to Lattice Dynamics (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
The code to run molecular simulations on this site is written in C++. emscripten is used to compile the programs with WebAssembly as the target; the WebIDL Binder is used to expose an object-oriented interface to the C++ code. Performance in JavaScript is slower than the same prorgams compiled as C programs, but still dramatically faster than a native JavaScript implementation. The page runs a few steps at a time in order to return control to the browser after during the simulation.