OpenDust: A fast GPU-accelerated code for calculation forces, acting on microparticles in a plasma flow
Opendust is GPU-based, Python library for dusty plasmas.
OpenDust aims to provide researchers both experimenters and theorists user-friendly and high-performance tool for calculation forces, acting on microparticles, and microparticles’ charges in a plasma flow.
OpenDust performance originates from highly-optimized Cuda back-end and allows to perform self-consistent calculation of plasma flow around microparticles in seconds.
OpenDust is installed using Miniconda.
- Begin by installing the most recent 64 bit, Python 3.x version of Miniconda
- For using OpenDust you need Nvidia GPU. Make sure you have installed modern GPU drivers. CUDA itself will be provided by the
cudatoolkitpackage when you installopendustin the next steps. - Open a command line terminal and type the following commands
conda create -n opendust
conda activate opendust
conda install -c kolotinsky -c conda-forge opendust
With recent conda versions (v4.8.4+), this will install a version of OpenDust compiled with the latest version of CUDA supported by your drivers. Alternatively you can request a version that is compiled for a specific CUDA version with the command
conda install -c kolotinsky -c conda-forge opendust cudatoolkit=10.0
where 10.0 should be replaced with the particular CUDA version you want to target.
https://github.com/kolotinsky1998/opendust/tree/main/tutorial
In case of usage OpenDust please cite the article:
Kolotinskii D., Timofeev A. OpenDust: A fast GPU-accelerated code for the calculation of forces acting on microparticles in a plasma flow //Computer Physics Communications. – 2023. – Т. 288. – С. 108746.
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