The VASP Manual

Getting started	Absolute beginners should start here and preferably work through the VASP workshop material.
Tutorials and Examples	The collection of tutorials and examples is a good place to start as well.
INCAR-tags	Information on assorted input parameters/files.
Theoretical Background	Important relations covering DFT, PAW, etc.

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Installation and validation

How to install VASP and validate your installation by means of the VASP test suite and benchmarks.

Getting started

To get started have a look at a typical VASP workshop.

These lectures, tutorials, and examples are highly recommended if you are a beginner and often even useful if you are not!

Input

As a minimal setup, VASP requires the user to prepare the following input files:

INCAR, KPOINTS, POSCAR, and POTCAR.

If present (in the directory where the calculation runs) the following output files of previous runs may be read as restart information:

CHGCAR and/or WAVECAR.

If present (in the directory where the calculation runs) the following file leads to a "soft" stop of the calculation:

STOPCAR.

Some specific features of VASP require additional output files from previous runs to be present:

Output

The main output file of VASP is the OUTCAR file.

The OSZICAR file ...

CHGCAR	WAVECAR	CHG	WAVEDER
CONTCAR	XDATCAR	EIGENVAL	IBZKPT
DOSCAR	PROCAR	PROOUT	PCDAT
ELFCAR	PARCHG	LOCPOT	TMPCAR
vasprun.xml	Wxxxx.tmp	WFULLxxxx.tmp	BSEFATBAND

Tutorials and Examples

• The list of tutorials
• All example calculations

Lectures and Presentations

• Lecture notes (and videos)

Visualisation and Postprocessing

Here we can link to postprocessing programs and script, visualization tools, etc etc.

Support

If you have questions or run into trouble, please have a look and/or post a question at the VASP forum.

Requests for support from the VASP group are to be directed WITHOUT EXCEPTION to the official VASP email address: vasp.materialphysik@univie.ac.at.

Please note: we offer support on a courtesy base only, not as a contractual service.

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