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dpa

Distributed particle advector based on TBB and MPI.

Requirements

  • CMake 3.15+
  • Git 2.24+
  • GCC 9+ or Visual Studio 2019+

(Manual) Dependencies

  • Intel MKL
  • Open or Microsoft MPI
  • The rest are downloaded automatically through vcpkg.

Building:

  • Clone the repository.
  • Run bootstrap.[sh|bat]. It takes approximately 20 minutes to download, build and install all dependencies.
  • The binaries are then available under the ./build folder.
  • Run as mpiexec -n [NUMBER_OF_NODES] -ppn 1 ./dpa [PATH_TO_CONFIG_FILE]. See the utility directory for example config files.

Notes:

  • The input must consist of a 1D float spacing attribute and a 4D XYZV float dataset specified in the config file.
  • The output is generated as one HDF5 file per rank, each consisting of three entries per round; two 1D float arrays for the vertices/colors and a 1D uint32/uint64 array for the indices.
  • The HDF5 files are accompanied by one XDMF file per rank.
  • When recording curves, if particles_per_round * iterations > maximum uint32_t, uint64_t indices are used.