Presentation
Smilei is a Particle-In-Cell code for plasma simulation. Open-source, collaborative, user-friendly and designed for high performances on super-computers, it is applied to a wide range of physics studies: from relativistic laser-plasma interaction to astrophysics.
Technical information
- website : https://smileipic.github.io/Smilei/index.html
- Scientific domain : laser-plasma
- Language : C/C++
- Parallelism : MPI + OpenMP
- GPU acceleration : No
- Scalability : high
- Vectorization: high
Compilation and simulation
Download
Sources are available at: https://github.com/SmileiPIC/Smilei
For the test, we will use a specific release. To download this release, run:
./download.sh
Compile
Information (if needed) about how to compile the application.
For instance:
Compile the code using:
source machines/occigen-bdw/env
./compile.sh
machines/occigen-bdw/env
contains the information for compilation (module load gcc openmpi lapack hdf5 ...)
Run and validate the simulation
For each test case, given in a separate folder (e.g. testcase_small), you can find three scripts:
- prepare.sh: prepare the simulation (move data to the right location, recompile some minor changes, ...)
- run.sh : run the application and print out the evaluated metric
- validate.sh: validation of the simulation on a scientific point of view
For running and validating the simulation, one should be able to do:
cd testcase_XXX
./prepare.sh
./run.sh
./validate.sh
And getting no error code returned. Those steps can also be used in a batch file for running the simulation using a job scheduler.