fspiga / lbsoft

LBsoft is a specific-purpose open-source software for soft glassy emulsion simulations.

LBsoft

LBsoft is a specific-purpose open-source software for soft glassy
emulsion simulations. The code was originally written by

Fabio Bonaccorso IIT-CLNS,Rome Italy
Marco Lauricella IAC-CNR, Rome Italy
Andrea Montessori IAC-CNR, Rome Italy

with contributions from:

Giorgio Amati CINECA-CED, Rome Italy
Massimo Bernaschi IAC-CNR, Rome Italy
Sauro Succi IAC-CNR, Rome Italy

The software development process has received funding from the
European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 Programme
Grant Agreement n. 739964 (COPMAT). Marco Lauricella acknowledges
the project “3D-Phys" (PRIN 2017PHRM8X) for support from MIUR.

This is an experimental code. The authors accept no responsibility
for the performance of the code or for the correctness of the results.

The code is licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License (BSD-3-Clause).

Structure

LBsoft is supplied as a main UNIX directory with 3 subdirectories.
All the source code files are contained in the 'source' sub-directory.
The 'test_cases' sub-directory contains different test cases that can
help the user to edit new input files. For further details on the input
directives the reader is referred to the article:

Compiling LBsoft

The 'source' sub-directory stores a UNIX makefile that assembles the
executable versions of the code both in serial and parallel version
with different compilers. Note the makefile could be copied eventually
modified for several common workstations and parallel computers into the
'source' sub-directory, where the code is compiled and linked. Finally,
the binary executable file can be run in the 'execute' sub-directory,
which is intended to be the working directory from which jobs are
submitted for execution and the data files manipulated. A list of
targets for several common workstations and parallel computers can be
used by the command "make target", where target is one of the
following options:
gfortran ---> compile in serial mode using the GFortran
compiler.
gfortran-mpi ---> compile in serial mode using the GFortran
compiler and the Open Mpi library.
intel ---> compile in serial mode using the Intel compiler.
intel-mpi ---> compile in parallel mode using the Intel compiler
and the Intel Mpi library.
intel-openmpi ---> compile in parallel mode using the Intel compiler
and the Open Mpi library.
intel-mpi-skylake ---> compile in parallel mode using Intel compiler
and the Intel Mpi library with flags for
Skylake processor features (AVX-512 activated).
intel-mpi-knl ---> compile in parallel mode using the Intel compiler
and the Intel Mpi library with flags for Xeon Phi
processor features (AVX-512 activated).
help ---> return the list of possible target choices.
On Windows system we advice the user to compile LBsoft under the
Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL). Note that a Message Passing Interface
Implementation is necessary to compile and run LBsoft in parallel
mode.

Executing LBsoft

To run LBsoft, it is necessary first to ensure that the program is
compiled (from the source sub-directory) and that the file input.dat
is present in the execute subdirectory.
All output data files will be returned to the 'execute' sub-directory.
Remember that the input file HAS TO BE NAMED 'input.dat' and put in
the 'execute' Sub-directory. Few example input files are contained in
the 'test_cases' sub-directory which can be used as test cases.

Example command to run LBsoft in serial mode:

./main.x

Example command to run LBsoft in parallel mode on 8 CPUs:

mpirun -np 8 ./main_mpi.x