FLASH Interface

What it does

FLASH Interface is a graphical interface for the FLASH Computational Science codebase!

It currently supports:

• configuring and editing existing flash.par files
• generating new flash.par files by choosing among the full set of parameters
• filtering the full set of flash parameters based on categories
• searching for flash parameters, and view full descriptions

Coming soon:

• Running flash simulations directly from the Interface
• Some visualizations

General Prerequisites (for running or building)

• git
  • to clone the repo
• npm
  • You will also need Node.js which comes with npm

To build

FLASH Interface can be compiled to binaries for Linux (x86, x86_64, armv7l), Mac OSX, and Windows operating systems.

To build you will need a tool called electron-packager, instructions for building are available here

Some prebuilt binaries are available at flash.uchicago.edu.

To run (for development or testing)

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/cnwalker/flash_interface
# Go into the repository
cd flash_interface
# Install dependencies and run the app
npm install && npm start

Contributing

• FLASH Interface is open source and accepting pull requests!
• The interface is built on electron, a javascript framework for making desktop applications.

Learn more about Electron and its API in the documentation.

If you have any questions, please reach me at cnwalker@flash.uchicago.edu. Thanks!

License CC0 (Public Domain)