Brutus

Entered: Mon Aug 17 2026

Operating systems: AIX; Cray; DEC Alpha; HPUX; Irix; Linux; MacOS; MS-DOS; OS/2; OSF; OSF1; Solaris; SunOS; Unix; VMS; MS Windows; Web services

Type: Source

Languages: JavaScript

Distribution: Free for academic use CC-BY-NC-ND

Application fields: Characterization; Diffraction

Bibliography: https://doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.18182.84806

Description: The aim of ab initio powder indexing is to determine the unit-cell parameters from a list of observed diffraction peak positions. Brutus performs this task using a symmetry-specific, (almost) exhaustive search algorithm by using regular GPU cards.

References: https://nitad54448.github.io/brutus/brutus.html