DL_POLY is a general purpose serial and parallel molecular dynamics simulation package originally developed at Daresbury Laboratory by W. Smith and T.R. Forester under the auspices of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for the EPSRC's Collaborative Computational Project for the Computer Simulation of Condensed Phases (CCP5) and the Molecular Simulation Group (MSG) at Daresbury Laboratory. The package is the property of the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. 

Two versions of DL_POLY are currently available. DL_POLY_2 is the original version which has been parallelised using the Replicated Data strategy and is useful for simulations of up to 30,000 atoms on 100 processors. DL_POLY_3 is a version which uses Domain Decomposition to achieve parallelism and is suitable for simulations of order 1 million atoms on 8-1024 processors.