Predict the performance of physics codes

We are releasing a new lighter version of PPT, called as ppt_lite.

1. Gopinath (Nath) Chennupati (gchennupati@lanl.gov)
2. Nanadakishore Santhi (nsanthi@lanl.gov)
3. Stephen Eidenbenz (eidenben@lanl.gov)
4. Robert Joseph (Joe) Zerr (rzerr@lanl.gov)
5. Massimiliano (Max) Rosa (maxrosa@lanl.gov)
6. Richard James Zamora (rjzamora@lanl.gov)
7. Eun Jung (EJ) Park (ejpark@lanl.gov)
8. Balasubramanya T (Balu) Nadiga (balu@lanl.gov)

9. Jason Liu (luix@cis.fiu.edu)
10. Kishwar Ahmed
11. Mohammad Abu Obaida
12. Yehia Arafa (yarafa@nmsu.edu)
13. Atanu Barai (atanu@nmsu.edu)

PPT depends on another LANL licensed open source software package named SIMIAN PDES located at https://github.com/pujyam/simian.

Simian relies on python package greenlet pip install greenlet

PPT installation is simple, just checkout the code as follows

git clone https://github.com/lanl/PPT.git

Let's assume the PPT is cloned into your home directory (/home/user/PPT) In the code directory PPT is organized in three main layers:

1. hardware -- contains the models for various CPUs and GPUs, interconnects,
2. middleware -- contains the models for MPI, OpenMP, etc.
3. apps -- contains various examples. These examples are the stylized pseudo (mini) apps for various open sourced physics codes.

For example, we run SNAP simulator in serial with one of the PPT hardware models as follows:

cd ~/PPT/code/apps/snapsim

python snapsim-orig.py in >> out

where, in and out in the above command are input and output files of SNAPsim.

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