QuickPIC is a 3D parallel (MPI & OpenMP Hybrid) Quasi-Static PIC code, which is developed based on the framework UPIC. This is the UCLA Plasma Simulation Group's official open-source repository for QuickPIC.
If you clone this repository, we ask that you please contact Weiming An (anweiming@ucla.edu). The development of QuickPIC relies on grant funding for which we are required to report code usage, and we would greatly appreciate being able to maintain accurate user-number tallies.
Please feel free to join in our email list quickpic-users-developers. We also have created a chat room “QuickPIC-User-Developer-Community” on Gitter.
Visit here for the documentaion.
The makefile is set to use gcc and gfortran with MPI. HDF5-Parallel is also required for compiling.
To compile the programs, execute:
make
The program name is qpic.e
The command to execute a program with both MPI and OpenMP varies from one system to another. One possible command is:
mpirun -np nproc ./qpic.e
where nproc is the number of processors to be used. Note that nproc should be 2 at least.
By default, OpenMP will use the maximum number of processors it can find on the MPI node. If the user wants to control the number of threads, the environment variable 'OMP_NUM_THREADS' may need to be set to the maximum number of threads per node expected.
To compile QuickPIC on Debian, execute:
make SYS_FX=DEBIAN
This requires that libhdf5-openmpi-dev is installed as it uses the h5pfc compiler wrapper.