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Introduction

This is the development version of PSC. It is usable for certain problems, but overall lots of changes are happening and things may be unstable / evolving.

PSC is a 3-dimensional fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell code for kinetic plasma simulations. It supports Nvidia GPUs and patch-based dynamic load balancing.

Quickstart

Building the code

PSC now uses cmake as its buildsystem. It is strongly recommended to build the code outside of the source in a different build directory. This is what I usually do:

$ cd src/psc # This is where the cloned git repository is (ie, the source)
$ mkdir build # This is my build directory
$ # create a cmake.sh so I don't have to remember the options I used
$ cat > cmake.sh <<EOF
cmake \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -DUSE_CUDA=OFF \
    -DUSE_VPIC=OFF \
    ..
EOF
$ . cmake.sh # run cmake (hope for the best)
$ make

The above should build a lot of tests (you can use ctest . to run them) and two actual cases, psc_bubble_yz and psc_flatfoil_yz which you'll find in the src/ subdirectory inside your build directory.

Running a case

Make a directory for your run and change into it. This generation of PSC uses (almost) no command line options, rather everything gets hardcoded into a case (a.k.a. "input deck" in VPIC speak), e.g., psc_flatfoil_yz.cxx. (Eventually, the build system should be set up where a standalone case can be easily compiled, rather than expecting for it to be in the PSC source directory). So it should be as easy as

mpirun -n 4 path/to/build/src/psc_flatfoil_yz

if you don't have to go through a batch system.

Documentation

Well, this is really a big todo, so for now a lot of it is probably all about emailing kai.germaschewski@unh.edu. But I'm working on actually usable documentation and there's a start here: https://psc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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