v21.09

This is the first official HiPACE++ release.

Dependencies

AMReX: release 21.08
openPMD-api: releases 0.12.0-0.14.*

List of PRs

git log | grep -A 3 "Author: " | grep -B 1 "\-\-" | sed '/--/d' | sed -e 's/^    /- /'

(in the future, one can use git log 21.09.. | grep -A 3 "Author: " | grep -B 1 "\-\-" | sed '/--/d' | sed -e 's/^ /- /')

• version 21.09

• openPMD-api: 0.14.2 (#585)

• interpolate rho and psi at the boundaries (#572)

• print precision in output (#581)

• proper bin policy for tile sort (#577)

• use _rt in GetDomainLev (#579)

• Fix offset of interpolation and use second order interpolation in x and y (#570)

• fix transverse size of IO for level 1 (#569)

• Fix handling of tiling and GPU (#576)

• OpenMP handling (#575)

• Particle tiling and OpenMP threading (#551)

• change test number of cells to be a multiple of 8... (#571)

• fix slice IO for MR (#568)

• use correct longitudinal index in InterpolateBoundaries (#567)

• Mesh refinement: fix MR on GPUs (#564)

• enforceBC works for all levels (#566)

• remove unused parameters (#560)

• CMake: Warn Unknown Build Type (#563)

• Fix: CUDA Host-Side -O3 with CMake (#562)

• Add a few beam profiles (#558)

• Field Interpolation (#557)

• [mini] document compile option -DAMReX_LINEAR_SOLVERS (#559)

• CMake: FFTW Search w/ CMake Install (#553)

• add seed to write_beam.py (#555)

• initialize the plasma on the correct level (#554)

• Mesh refinement: enable level 1 to be longitudinally a different size than level 0 (#546)

• [mini] add missing/errorenous CMake in build description (#549)

• add OpenMP support for transverse and longitudinal derivative (#545)

• Unify forward and backward dst plans to save GPU memory (#537)

• Automatically use small DST for large Resolutions (#548)

• add OpenMP to CI tests (#547)

• New Discrete Sine Transformation (#534)

• Mesh refinement: fix parallel runs (#544)

• Add OpenMP for FFTW (#541)

• rescale weight of beam in normalized units (#543)

• ccache now on the JSC Juwels Booster (#539)

• FFTW: CMakeConfig Support (Windows, OpenMP) (#540)

• fix includes (#533)

• pass vector of geometries to field solve functions (#536)

• fix a few style warnings on AMD (#535)

• clean loop over levels (#531)

• Mesh refinement: first working field solve on level 1 (#530)

• Mesh refinement: fix boxarray (#529)

• Mesh refinement: multiple Poisson solvers (#527)

• Mesh refinement: Adding IO (#526)

• remove unused parameters (#525)

• we dont seem to need Fields::m_F anymore (#524)

• first preparation to enable multiple levels (#523)

• when odd number of cells, no need to average to get slice io (#521)

• CMake 3.20+ and CUDA: Modernized AMReX (#522)

• Update RNG (#520)

• switch assert to >0 density in adaptive time step (#518)

• Add atomic mass table for Plasmas (#510)

• Add beam selection for IO (#514)

• [mini] Sphinx: fix link in typo (#516)

• initialize m_adaptive_density (#515)

• move Diagnostic class from Fields to Hipace class (#513)

• add Adios2 support (#508)

• add proton element for convenience (#507)

• [sphinx] add links and logos to package managers (#506)

• Add possibility to input multiple beams at once (#502)

• [mini] clearer naming of direction (#501)

• Renaming to HiPACE++ (#505)

• conversion to normalized units for explicit solver (#499)

• remove hardcoded lev calls (#503)

• enable multiple boxes per rank (#493)

• add the possibility to have different species of beams (#492)

• remove deprecated comment (#500)

• Fix mass calculation for Dalton (#497)

• fix typo (#498)

• fix typo in execution command (#495)

• fix typos in readme (#491)

• [mini] add documentation badge (#490)

• add doc for juwels and maxwell (#489)

• change names from WarpX to Hipace++ (#485)

• Add get_started example (#488)

• add subcycling for beams (#487)

• introduce subheaddings (#486)

• Last changes for going open-source (#484)

• Add Cl test for Beam input from_file (#479)

• communicate physical time (#482)

• add second flush for beam IO (#480)

• assert no ion motion with explicit solver (#477)

• assert explicit isn't used with SI (#478)

• clean a few compilation warning (#481)

• updating a few parameters in the sphinx documentation (#473)

• option to not compile the MG solver (#476)

• parallelization for beam deposition in next slice (#458)

• clean up input parameters for bxby solver (#475)

• adding more parameters to the sphinx documentation (#471)

• [mini] comply with convention for variable parameter names (#470)

• Add Plasma Ionization using ADK Model (#456)

• fix transverse beam currents for explicit solver (#468)

• Fix explicit solver (#459)

• CI test for hosing and ion motion (#466)

• add hollow core plasma profile (#463)

• change parabolic profile from channel_radius to parabolic_curvature (#464)

• cuFFTUtils: Add Missing Include (#461)

• minor update of available input parameters (#460)

• fix sign of psi (#455)

• remove wrong assert (#454)

• Fix shift in time between fields and beam in IO (#453)

• deposit jx and jy of the beam on the next slice (#451)

• Limit number of significant digits in checksums (#444)

• Use previous slice as MG initial guess for explicit solver (#450)

• store MG solver to initialize it only once, to improve performance (#449)

• Replace predictor-corrector by analytic integration and multigrid solve (#437)

• Call OpenPMDWriter::InitDiagnostics() only if they are actually written (#447)

• Add correlated energy spread (#446)

• Remove option to dump to plotfiles (#445)

• add the possibility to have a parabolic plasma profile (#415)

• openPMD: clean up 'injection_type = restart' and add SI units to beam output (#423)

• adding ion motion (#439)

• must pass charge and mass by reference (#438)

• set default for skip empty comms to false (#436)

• Enable multiple plasma species (#432)

• change assert in predictor corrector loop to Warning (#435)

• Stop communicating if only empty boxes downstream (#434)

• Print Version (#433)

• last rank needs to resize to remove particles from previous time step (#426)

• Fix b field error calculation (#430)

• add option to not deposit Jx and Jy of the beam (#431)

• add additional diagnostics for the predictor corrector loop (#427)

• CMake: Update AMReX Particle Precision (#425)

• remove deprecated parameter (#422)

• remove configure_mpiexec from cmake (#421)

• AMReX: Skip AMRLEVEL (#403)

• Add licensing files in preparation of open-source release (#419)

• [WIP] New pipeline (#407)

• Constant accelerating field (#372)

• Add a paragraph on wandpic in the tex file (#354)

• #190 Performance changes to linear_wake analysis (#348)

• only write important field data to file (#346)

• renaming to the correctly describing name peak_current_density (#350)

• only run CI on development (#352)

• Adding possibility to write current directly to grid (#349)

• adding profiling for SolveOneSlice() (#343)

• CMake: Quick, Local Dependencies (#347)

• openPMD: restart simulation and multiple Beams (#325)

• fix bug by using std::abs instead of abs (#340)

• Transverse beam redistribute (#339)

• assert that the number of cells doesn't overflow int (#342)

• only init openPMD data if outputperiod > 0 (#326)

• Remove redundant which_slice from plasma particle advance (#328)

• add helpful error message, if user specifies output_period=0 (#327)

• Doc: update tex file with the algorithm description (#323)

• send beam particle information only at initialization (#322)

• [SCALING TEST] Only allocate required field components in each slice (#320)

• Readin from HiPACE-C files improved + conversion script (#315)

• openPMD-api: new CMake Control (tests) (#312)

• Optimize packing and unpacking particles to pinned memory buffers. (#308)

• README: openPMD-api Install (#313)

• removing namespace io (#311)

• checksum.py: unused import "re" (#310)

• openPMD: 0.13.1 (#309)

• Reset plasma particle weight to the initial value (#302)

• fix compiler warning for compiling without openPMD (#303)

• Make openPMD default, including for CI (#291)

• Encapsulate field IO, first step to multiple slice IO (#300)

• fix #ifdef OPENPMD to get rid of compiler warnings (#299)

• add ifdef AMREX_USE_MPI around communication functions (#298)

• Fix non-blocking communication for adaptive time step (#296)

• cleaning of the openPMD beam write PR (#294)

• [mini] Clean compiler warnings (#293)

• checksum tests: abstract the backend, to enable either openPMD or yt (#292)

• Remove the option slice_beam: it is ALWAYS true (#289)

• openPMD: read input beam from HDF5 file (#285)

• Fixing momentum for openPMD I/O (#286)

• Sending info for adaptive time step via nonblocking communication (#282)

• openPMD: cleaning (#281)

• fixing typo in notify finish (#280)

• openPMD default Path: as in WarpX (#278)

• openPMD: write beam data (#277)

• Use HDF5 File to input Beam with openPMD (#276)

• [WIP] openPMD: Collective Open & Group Based (#274)

• openPMD: Guard Output, Avoid 2x Copy (#275)

• [openPMD] Communication of upstream beam particle number (#269)

• openPMD: Rebased Handle fields with Guards (#272)

• revert collective open (#273)

• openPMD: Collective Open & Group Based (#270)

• [mini] option to disable z push of beam particles (#268)

• CMake: Update GPU Backend Vars (#267)

• Add missing Device::synchronize() calls to Wait() and Notify(). (#266)

• openPMD output (fields) (#265)

• fixing index error in DST (#264)

• Accelerating CI (#263)

• Fix a classic implicit capture of *this bug (#262)

• Longitudinal particle exchanges (#261)

• also send the ion charge density inn pipeline (#259)

• Fix bug in which plasma particles were not being initialized on the right proc. (#258)

• typo in doc (#256)

• openPMD: Doc Quote & Version (#254)

• Adding openPMD support (#252)

• Full domain transversally for slice IO to avoid losing particles (#253)

• Clean 'using namespace amrex;' (#250)

• Longitudinally parallelized adaptive time step (#247)

• fixing order of AMReX includes (#251)

• fix typo in the example Jupyter notebook (#249)

• Capability to have multiple beams (#246)

• store a correct time step in output files (#248)

• Move a few files in a utils directory (#245)

• F needs guard cells when beam deposits on the 3d grid (#244)

• Adding tilted beam (#243)

• CI for adaptive timestep (#242)

• Adding an adaptive time step (#241)

• Const weight Gaussian beam based on density input (#235)

• adding a few general parameters to sphinx documentation (#237)

• [mini] Assert for slice beam for slice IO (#236)

• using DeviceVector instead of ManagedVector for beam and plasma particle init (#233)

• Fix parallelization (except for plasma particles) (#230)

• Adding breathe to sphinx documentation (#229)

• A few bugfixes for longitudinal parallelization for beam particles. (#228)

• Gaussian beam with fixed weight (#220)

• fix slice averaging and clean up its IC (#225)

• adding printout for QSA violating particles (#222)

• fixing an important error in the longitudinal plasma velocity (#224)

• Node-center slice IO so it is at the domain center (#221)

• quick fix to make the external field work on GPU (#219)

• Sphinx documentation (#217)

• Implementation of the beam pusher (#202)

• add a visualization notebook with all useful basic operations (#218)

• IO slice defined on slice geom, to output a 2d array (#215)

• option to NOT dump plasma particles (#216)

• reset particlecontainer dm and ba (#199)

• Fixing bug with initialization of arrays (#213)

• Coarsen beam injection box (#211)

• Only define slice box if needed (#212)

• Fix redistribute and handling of particles which violate the QSA (#207)

• Slice diagnostics (#206)

• add doxygen documentation for beam slice deposition (#203)

• CMake: New AMReX Options (#204)

• CI: CUDA Update (#205)

• check for predictor corrector loop divergence only if B field error tolerance > 0 (#201)

• Selfmade redistribute to avoid high memory shifting (#200)

• remove pedantic semicolumn (#196)

• 3D array has no guard cell (#195)

• Handling of plasma particles violating the quasi-static approximation (#193)

• add virtual destructor to abstract class (#191)

• adding the possibility of a finite radius plasma column (#192)

• fixed-ppc Gaussian beam (#189)

• Move slice solve to a separate function (#187)

• replace hipace.do_plot with more flexible hipace.output_period (#184)

• Turn off serial tests to spare CI time (#183)

• Bash: Exit Earl on Error (+Pipes) (#178)

• oops, forgot one renaming (#182)

• Fix a number of naming inconsistencies in CI and examples (#181)

• forget about assert_exit, python assert work well (#179)

• LWFA Analysis: Fix Typo (#180)

• Adding CI test in the blowout regime and removing now redundant can_beam test (#174)

• Fix SI (#170)

• fixing CI tests not triggering (#171)

• [mini] adding CI test for a linear wake vs theory (#167)

• Fix SI Poisson solver for transverse fields (#169)

• Reset all quantities at the beginning of each time step (#168)

• Reformat poisson (#164)

• Add option to call Gpu::Synchronize around profiler region (#160)

• proper number of grid points in the error calculation (#161)

• Correct ion charge deposition (#156)

• Fixing bug with particles being pushed to the next slice (#159)

• Minor Cleaning in the plasma current deposition + addition of safe guards (#155)

• [mini] Improving host-device performance by removing redundant copy call (#151)

• push/pop the transverse communicator only once in the loop over slices (#150)

• Minor cleaning, in particular fix the order of includes in 1 file. (#149)

• Renaming slices to WhichSilce::Next, This, Previous1, Previous2 (#148)

• Moving class FFTPoissonSolver and all field-only related functions from class Hipace to Fields (#147)

• Consistent naming for pseudo-potential on plasma particles (#140)

• Add option to put the 3D array in pinned memory so it stays on the host (#143)

• Wrap BL_PROFILE into HIPACE_PROFILE for more control (#139)

• Improved predictor corrector loop (#138)

• Option to deposit beam charge and current in the slice MultiFab (#132)

• Predictor-corrector loop to compute transverse magnetic fields (#133)

• Fix crash when no plasma is specified (#131)

• Solve fields Ex-By, Ey+Bx, Ez, and Bz (#129)

• Plasma particle pusher (#125)

• enabling coefficient and add for TransvereDerivative (#121)

• fix sign error in Poisson solver, and adapt CI scripts (they missed that :/) (#126)

• Deposit ion charge (#128)

• add some _rt and remove parallel test from script to reset benchmarks (#127)

• Deposit beam density (#120)

• CI: Doxygen Builds (#118)

• add WarpX Copyright header for file taken from WarpX (#117)

• Add .editorconfig file (#119)

• Deposit plasma density (#112)

• Turn off OpenMP by default, and improve benchmark reset script (#114)

• Improve checksums (#113)

• space between function name and bracket for declaration and definition (#111)

• Update plasma force terms (#108)

• Create pull_request_template.md

• Implementation of the first part of the actual plasma particle pusher (field gathering) (#101)

• add option to get given field of given level (#102)

• fix units and typo in current deposition (#99)

• Fix order 0 deposition (#98)

• Physical plasma current deposition + read-in of particle momentum as vector (#95)

• fix typo in CMake compilation flag (#94)

• typo: remove extra character (#92)

• Doxygen-readable docstring in all .H file (#91)

• only run CI on PR, not on push (#89)

• Modified input and input_normalized to allow for a comparison. Added … (#73)

• Add style checks, stolen from WarpX (#87)

• Reformat CI, add checksum, and make beam_in_vacuum smaller (#85)

• add 1 checksum regression test. Others should be copied from there (#84)

• Add automated test that compares with theory (#79)

• renamed the plasma pseudo potential to psi (#82)

• CMake: openPMD Suffix

• Move examples to subfolder (#67)

• CMake: RelWithDebInfo -O3 (#71)

• option to not have IO (#65)

• Expose plasma species options to the input file (#64)

• space before bracket for function definition/declaration (#63)

• Instrument the main functions (#62)

• Current deposition for plasma particles (#61)

• compute Bx (#59)

• clean includes and current deposition (#58)

• Enable normalized units (#57)

• support various deposition order

• Add test for By field in vacuum with can beam (#56)

• set val to 0 at the beginning of each step (#55)

• do NGP deposition (#53)

• Initialize a can beam (#52)

• Cleanup: remove extra ;

• use amrex::Math::floor instead of floor for DPC++ (#51)

• Change AMREX_USE_GPU to AMREX_USE_CUDA (#50)

• Assertions and minor changes in FFT solver. Reduce the size of slice BoxArray. (#48)

• CMake: DPC++, OMP Def., Binary Names (#47)

• Cleaning in the FFT solver (#46)

• CMake: MPI, Asserts and Advanced AMReX (#44)

• field communication in longitude direction (#43)

• Update CI Badge: macOS deactivated

• Update CI Badge: development

• CMake: Compute Backend & Precision (#42)

• Loop over slices. Tranverse FillBoundary for j and By. (#41)

• add two subcommunicators (#39)

• FFTW: stress again not needed with CUDA

• Update README: Dependencies/Options

• Current: GPU (#38)

• Missing CMake 3.17 CUDA Feature Guard (#36)

• Loop over slices and call Poisson solver! (#35)

• CMake: -lcufft (#37)

• list optimizations we kept for later (#32)

• Clean duplicate utilities Constants and Direction::z (#34)

• Copy data between the full and slice MultiFab. Shift data in slices. (#33)

• FFT poisson solver (#28)

• Add a direction enum struct (#31)

• set up slice ba and dm (#29)

• Add function to compute transverse derivative function (#26)

• adjust field components (#30)

• Docs: pkg-config for FFTW/CMake

• FFTW: Only Needed in non-CUDA (#27)

• Remove options for multiple dimensions in FFT (#24)

• Fix indexing error in particle initialization (#25)

• Readme: Document Dependencies

• CI: FFTW3 (Serial)

• first attempt to include FFT in Hipace (#23)

• remove extra ;

• [WIP] Current deposition (#21)

• Readme: cleanup

• Readme: Formatting

• Doc: Debug Mode

• CMake: CUDA C++ Language Minimum

• Readme: Details AMReX External

• CMake: CCache (#22)

• AMReX: Clean-Up Options

• syntax fix in readme

• CUDACXX

• Add CUDAHOSTCXX

• CMake Build Dirs: Advanced Options

• add array of multifabs for 2D slices (#19)

• Add physical constants (#20)

• CMake: Guard in-Source builds

• Init Plasma Particles (#18)

• make sure the domain is decomposed only in z-direction (#17)

• Disable compilation of linear solvers (#16)

• CMake: Cleanup Include

• EOL

• Correct minor typos (#15)

• Add document with the equations of HiPACE

• macOS: move disabled

• macOS CI: empty job list

• CI: Reduce for now

• Doc & CI: OpenMP (#14)

• CI: Linux & macOS (#13)

• Default Build Type: RelWithDebInfo (#12)

• Same constant again

• CUDA: Fix Compile (constexpr)

• CMake: CUDA Support (Var Scope)

• CMake: Finish Cleaning (#11)

• Single Arg Constructors: Explicit (#10)

• readme file explains how to run simulation and plot the results

• also have plasma particles in the simulation

• add plotting script, to show results after running simulation

• fix merge conflits

• remove multi particle containers, for simplicity

• Fix Warnings: ;s and Init (#9)

• gitignore: typical IDE dirs (#8)

• Merge pull request #7 from Hi-PACE/topic-cmakeFunctions

• give the particles positive ids

• fix unitialized variable warning

• set max_step by default

• make sure constructor for the plasma particle container gets called

• fix some warnings

• CMake: Functions, 1 & 2 Ranks

• add beam particles in the simulation. Particle IO still not readable

• Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/Hi-PACE/hipace

• fix bug in multifab allocation

• Merge pull request #6 from Hi-PACE/topic-amrexSystemIncludes

• add field diagnostics and evolve

• AMReX: System Includes

• fixes so it compiles

• Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/Hi-PACE/hipace

• Initialize field data

• fix compilation of multi pc stuff

• multi plasma particle container

• typo

• Merge branch 'master' of github.com:Hi-PACE/hipace

• add the multi beam particle container

• set up the subdirectories in cmake

• finish spack env reactivate

• brew: mpi

• ignore *~

• Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/Hi-PACE/hipace

• add example

• Readme: Set CC & CXX

• Hipace derives from AmrCore

• field class

• Merge pull request #5 from Hi-PACE/particle_containers

• Adjust Include Dirs: src/

• Merge pull request #4 from Hi-PACE/main

• add main function and hipace clss

• hook up the particle containers to the build system

• Merge branch 'master' into particle_containers

• check in stubs for beam and particle container classes

• Merge pull request #3 from Hi-PACE/topic-noFortran

• AMReX: no Fortran in CMake

• Merge pull request #2 from Hi-PACE/topic-cmake

• Add CMake structure & Docs

• Merge pull request #1 from Hi-PACE/topic-gitignore

• Add .gitignore for C++