OP-PIC

OP-PIC is a high-level embedded domain specific language for writing unstructured mesh particle in cell simulations with automatic parallelization on multi-core and many-core architectures. The parallelizations include, sequential(seq), OpenMP(omp), MPI(mpi), CUDA(cuda), HIP(hip) and their CUDA+MPI(cuda_mpi), HIP+MPI(hip_mpi) distributed memory parallelizations, The API is embedded in C/C++.

This repository contains the implementation of the code translation tools and run-time support libraries, and is structured as follows:

• opp_lib: The C/C++ OP-PIC run-time libraries.
• opp_translator: The Python code translator for C/C++.
• app_<app_name>: Example applications that demonstrate use of the API ready to be code-generated.
• app_<app_name>_cg: Copy of the example applications that are already being code generated.
• scripts/source: Some example source files used during implementation
• scripts/batch: Some example slurm batch files used during implementation
• app_handcoded: Some hand-coded application code, written prior code generation

Documentation

Documentation is available on Read the Docs.

Dependencies

OP-PIC has a variety of toolchain dependencies that you will likely be able to obtain from your package manager or programming environment:

• GNU Make > 4.2
• A C/C++ compiler: Currently supported compilers are Intel, GCC, Clang, Cray, and NVHPC.
• Python >= 3.8
• (Optional) An MPI implementation: Any implementation with the mpicc and mpicxx wrappers is supported.
• (Optional) NVIDIA CUDA >= 10.2.89
• (Optional) AMD HIP-ROCM >= 5.6.0

In addition, there are a few optional library dependencies that you will likely have to build manually, although some package managers or programming environments may be able to provide appropriate versions:

• (Optional) HDF5: Used for HDF5 I/O. You may build with and without --enable-parallel (depending on if you need MPI), and then specify via the environment variable HDF5_INSTALL_PATH.
• (Optional) PETSc: Used for linear/nonlinear sparse matrix solvers. You may build with and without --with-mpi=1 (depending on if you need MPI), and then specify via the environment variable PETSC_INSTALL_PATH.
• (Optional) ParMETIS: Can be used for MPI mesh partitioning. Build with 32-bit indicies (-DIDXSIZE32) and without -DSCOTCH_PTHREAD. Specify ParMETIS via the environment variable PARMETIS_INSTALL_PATH.

Compile OP-PIC library bindings

• Source the compiler and other environment variables (some example source files can be found at OP-PIC/scripts/source directory).
• Change directory to OP-PIC/opp_lib.
• Compile the required platform specific backend library using make commands (e.g. make cuda_mpi).

Setup OP-PIC translator python environment (One time process)

• Change directory to OP-PIC/opp_translator.
• Run setup_venv.sh (this will download the required libraries, including libclang and create the opp_venv python environment).

Compile application

• Change directory to the required demonstrator application folder (the applications ready to code-generate will have the name in format app_<app_name>).
• Run python3 $OPP_TRANSLATOR -v -I$OPP_PATH/include/ --file_paths <application_cpp_file>.
• Compile the required application version using the make command. (make followed by the required parallelization).

For example, cd app_cabanapic; python3 $OPP_TRANSLATOR -v -I$OPP_PATH/include/ --file_paths cabanapic.cpp; make cuda_mpi. A detail explanation can be found in the readme file of opp_translator folder and the required application folder.

In addition, app_<app_name>_cg will additionally include code-generated files, ready to compile directly using make commands.

Run the compiled application

• To run the application, use bin/<parallelization> <config_file>. For example, bin/hip configs/cabana.params. For distributed memory MPI builds use mpirun, or srun for slurm runs. Some example slurm scripts can be found at batch/app_<app_name> folder.

License

OP-PIC is released as an open-source project under the BSD 3-Clause License. See the file called LICENSE for more information.

Citing

To cite OP-PIC, please reference the following paper:

Zaman Lantra, Steven A. Wright, and Gihan R. Mudalige. 2024. OP-PIC - an Unstructured-Mesh Particle-in-Cell DSL for Developing Nuclear Fusion Simulations. In Proceedings of the 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 294–304. https://doi.org/10.1145/3673038.3673130

@inproceedings{10.1145/3673038.3673130,
author = {Lantra, Zaman and Wright, Steven A. and Mudalige, Gihan R.},
title = {OP-PIC - an Unstructured-Mesh Particle-in-Cell DSL for Developing Nuclear Fusion Simulations},
year = {2024},
isbn = {9798400717932},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3673038.3673130},
doi = {10.1145/3673038.3673130},
pages = {294–304},
numpages = {11},
keywords = {DSL, OP-PIC, PIC, Particle-In-Cell, Unstructured-mesh},
location = {Gotland, Sweden},
series = {ICPP '24}
}