The development of SPPARKS has been funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE), through its LDRD program.
The chief authors of SPPARKS are Steve Plimpton and Aidan Thompson and Alex Slepoy who can be contacted at sjplimp at sandia.gov, athomps at sandia.gov, and alexander.slepoy at nnsa.doe.gov, respectively.
Several materials scientists at Sandia also helped in the design of the code and implementation of specific models: