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-# Sample GitLab Project
+# NP_TMcode project
 
-This sample project shows how a project in GitLab looks for demonstration purposes. It contains issues, merge requests and Markdown files in many branches,
-named and filled with lorem ipsum.
+This project is the T-matrix based suite of codes by the Messina group (Borghese, Saija, Iatì) to compute scattering and extinction properties of realistic particles that can be represented as an arbitrary assembly of individually spherically symmetric subparticles, whose classical optical constants are known. Using an arbitrarily large set of arbitrarily small spherically symmetric subparticles one can obviously approximate any real particle, very much as small enough pixels can approximate an image.
 
-You can look around to get an idea how to structure your project and, when done, you can safely delete this project.
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-[Learn more about creating GitLab projects.](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/gitlab-basics/create-project.html)
+The aim of the project, funded by PNRR-CNS, is to refactor the original, very old legacy Fortran codes, casting them in a modern language that allows them to be parallelised and run efficiently on current and forthcoming HPC architectures.