Mint provides a comprehensive mesh data model and a mesh-aware, fine-grain, parallel execution model that underpins the development of computational tools and numerical discretization methods. Thereby, enable implementations that are born parallel and portable to new and emerging architectures.
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- Support for 1D/2D/3D mesh geometry.
- Efficient data structures to represent :ref:`ParticleMesh`, :ref:`StructuredMesh` and :ref:`UnstructuredMesh` types, including unstructured meshes with :ref:`MixedCellTopology`.
- Native support for a variety of commonly employed :ref:`CellTypes`.
- A flexible :ref:`MeshStorageManagement` system, which can optionally inter-operate with Sidre as the underlying, in-memory, hierarchical datastore, facilitating the integration across packages.
- Basic support for :ref:`sections/fem`, consisting of commonly employed shape functions and quadratures.
- A Mesh-Aware :ref:`sections/execution_model`, based on the RAJA programming model abstraction layer that supports on-node parallelism for mesh-traversals, enabling the implementation of computational kernels that are born parallel and portable across different processor architectures.
Mint is designed to be light-weight and self-contained. The only requirement for using Mint is a C++11 compliant compiler. However, to realize the full spectrum of capabilities, support for the following third-party libraries is provided:
- RAJA, used for the parallel execution and portability layer.
- Conduit , for using Sidre as the :ref:`MeshStorageManagement` system.
- Umpire, for memory management on next-generation architectures.
For further information on how to build the Axom Toolkit using these third-party libraries, consult the Axom Quick Start Guide.
This guide discusses the basic concepts and architecture of Mint.
- The :ref:`sections/mint/getting_started` section provides a quick introduction to Mint, designed to illustrate high-level concepts and key capabilities, in the context of a small working example.
- The :ref:`sections/tutorial` section provides code snippets that demonstrate specific topics in a structured and simple format.
- For complete documentation of the interfaces of the various classes and functions in Mint consult the Mint Doxygen API Documentation.
- Complete examples and code walk-throughs of mini-apps using Mint are provided in the :ref:`sections/examples` section.
Additional questions, feature requests or bug reports on Mint can be submitted by creating a new issue on Github or by sending e-mail to the Axom Developers mailing list at axom-dev@llnl.gov.
.. toctree:: :caption: Contents sections/getting_started.rst sections/preliminary_concepts.rst sections/mesh_representation.rst sections/mesh_types.rst sections/architecture.rst sections/execution_model.rst sections/fem.rst sections/tutorial.rst sections/examples.rst sections/faq.rst sections/appendix.rst