<h1>compute pressure/cuda command<aclass="headerlink"href="#compute-pressure-cuda-command"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Syntax<aclass="headerlink"href="#syntax"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<divclass="highlight-python"><divclass="highlight"><pre>compute ID group-ID pressure temp-ID keyword ...
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<li>ID, group-ID are documented in <aclass="reference internal"href="compute.html"><em>compute</em></a> command</li>
<li>pressure = style name of this compute command</li>
<li>temp-ID = ID of compute that calculates temperature, can be NULL if not needed</li>
<li>zero or more keywords may be appended</li>
<li>keyword = <em>ke</em> or <em>pair</em> or <em>bond</em> or <em>angle</em> or <em>dihedral</em> or <em>improper</em> or <em>kspace</em> or <em>fix</em> or <em>virial</em></li>
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<h2>Examples<aclass="headerlink"href="#examples"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<divclass="highlight-python"><divclass="highlight"><pre>compute 1 all pressure thermo_temp
compute 1 all pressure NULL pair bond
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<h2>Description<aclass="headerlink"href="#description"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Define a computation that calculates the pressure of the entire system
of atoms. The specified group must be “all”. See the <aclass="reference internal"href="compute_stress_atom.html"><em>compute stress/atom</em></a> command if you want per-atom
pressure (stress). These per-atom values could be summed for a group
of atoms via the <aclass="reference internal"href="compute_reduce.html"><em>compute reduce</em></a> command.</p>
<p>If no extra keywords are listed, the entire equations above are
calculated. This includes a kinetic energy (temperature) term and the
virial as the sum of pair, bond, angle, dihedral, improper, kspace
(long-range), and fix contributions to the force on each atom. If any
extra keywords are listed, then only those components are summed to
compute temperature or ke and/or the virial. The <em>virial</em> keyword
means include all terms except the kinetic energy <em>ke</em>.</p>
<p>Details of how LAMMPS computes the virial efficiently for the entire
system, including the effects of periodic boundary conditions is
discussed in <aclass="reference internal"href="compute_stress_atom.html#thompson"><span>(Thompson)</span></a>.</p>
<p>The temperature and kinetic energy tensor is not calculated by this
compute, but rather by the temperature compute specified with the
command. If the kinetic energy is not included in the pressure, than
the temperature compute is not used and can be specified as NULL.
Normally the temperature compute used by compute pressure should
calculate the temperature of all atoms for consistency with the virial
term, but any compute style that calculates temperature can be used,
e.g. one that excludes frozen atoms or other degrees of freedom.</p>
<p>Note that if desired the specified temperature compute can be one that
subtracts off a bias to calculate a temperature using only the thermal
velocity of the atoms, e.g. by subtracting a background streaming
velocity. See the doc pages for individual <aclass="reference internal"href="compute.html"><em>compute commands</em></a> to determine which ones include a bias.</p>
<p>Also note that the N in the first formula above is really
degrees-of-freedom divided by d = dimensionality, where the DOF value
is calcluated by the temperature compute. See the various <aclass="reference internal"href="compute.html"><em>compute temperature</em></a> styles for details.</p>
<p>A compute of this style with the ID of “thermo_press” is created when
LAMMPS starts up, as if this command were in the input script:</p>
<divclass="highlight-python"><divclass="highlight"><pre>compute thermo_press all pressure thermo_temp
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<p>where “thermo_temp” is the ID of a similarly defined compute of style
“temp”. See the “thermo_style” command for more details.</p>
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<p>Styles with a <em>cuda</em> suffix are functionally the same as the
corresponding style without the suffix. They have been optimized to
run faster, depending on your available hardware, as discussed in
<aclass="reference internal"href="Section_accelerate.html"><em>Section_accelerate</em></a> of the manual. The
accelerated styles take the same arguments and should produce the same
results, except for round-off and precision issues.</p>
<p>These accelerated styles are part of the USER-CUDA package. They are
only enabled if LAMMPS was built with that package. See the <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_start.html#start-3"><span>Making LAMMPS</span></a> section for more info.</p>
<p>You can specify the accelerated styles explicitly in your input script
by including their suffix, or you can use the <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_start.html#start-7"><span>-suffix command-line switch</span></a> when you invoke LAMMPS, or you can
use the <aclass="reference internal"href="suffix.html"><em>suffix</em></a> command in your input script.</p>
<p>See <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_accelerate.html"><em>Section_accelerate</em></a> of the manual for
more instructions on how to use the accelerated styles effectively.</p>
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<p><strong>Output info:</strong></p>
<p>This compute calculates a global scalar (the pressure) and a global
vector of length 6 (pressure tensor), which can be accessed by indices
1-6. These values can be used by any command that uses global scalar
or vector values from a compute as input. See <aclass="reference internal"href="Section_howto.html#howto-15"><span>this section</span></a> for an overview of LAMMPS output
options.</p>
<p>The scalar and vector values calculated by this compute are
“intensive”. The scalar and vector values will be in pressure
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