General Form of Algorithm

Initialization

Reset block sums

Compute block average

Compute final results

“cycle” or “sweep”

“block”

Move each atom once (on average)

100’s or 1000’s of cycles

Independent “measurement”

moves per cycle

cycles per block

Add to block sum

blocks per simulation

New configuration

Entire Simulation

Monte Carlo Move

Select type of trial move

each type of move has fixed probability of being selected

Perform selected trial move

Decide to accept trial configuration, or keep original