PIConGPU and ISAAC software and results bundle for Supercomputing frontiers and innovations submission 2016

This is the archive containing the software used for evaluations and the results of the publication "In situ, steerable, hardware-independent and data-structure agnostic visualization with ISAAC" submitted to the Supercomputing frontiers and innovations 2016 based on the talk at the ISC Workshop On In situ Visualization 2016.

The archive has the following content:

• PIConGPU Kelvin-Helmholtz Simulation code (picongpu/):
  • Remote: https://github.com/psychocoderHPC/picongpu.git (copy will be removed)
  • Branch: topic-scalingPizDaintISAAC
  • Commit: 500f896ff8dbed768b2e62800072f6416645fc8d
• The network communication code was removed for the evaluations on Piz Daint. The customized ISAAC version is part of PIConGPU (picongpu/src/picongpu/include/plugins/isaac/). It is based on the following Repository and Commit:
  • Remote: https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/isaac.git
  • Branch: dev
  • Commit: a381a31caf9cf568d33568efb2f83d356448abc9
• The results of the Piz Daint run (results/). In the subfolder output is the raw simulation output and in the folder csv csv tables created out of these.

The simulation was executed for 30 time steps and the following configuration:

• shape is higher then CIC, we used TSC
• pusher is Boris
• current solver is Esirkepov (optimized, generalized)
• Yee field solver
• trilinear interpolation in field gathering
• 16 particles per cell

Compile flags:

• CPU g++-4.9.2: -g -O3 -m64
• GPU nvcc: --use_fast_math --ftz=false -g  -Xcompiler=-pthread -O3 -m64