Overview

POT3D is a Fortran code that computes potential field solutions to approximate the solar coronal magnetic field using observed photospheric magnetic fields as a boundary condition. It can be used to generate potential field source surface (PFSS), potential field current sheet (PFCS), and open field (OF) models. It has been (and continues to be) used for numerous studies of coronal structure and dynamics. The code is highly parallelized using MPI and is GPU-accelerated using Fortran standard parallelism (do concurrent) and OpenACC, along with an option to use the NVIDIA cuSparse library. The HDF5 file format is used for input/output.

Presentation

Downloading and compiling POT3D

git clone https://github.com/predsci/POT3D

There are sample build scripts in the build_examples directory.

We start with build_examples/build_cpu_mpi-only_intel_ubuntu20.04.sh (This is for CPU-only runs).

1. Copy and rename build_examples/build_cpu_mpi-only_intel_ubuntu20.04.sh to the POT3D package root directory:
   cp ./build_examples/build_cpu_mpi-only_intel_ubuntu20.04.sh ./rebuild.sh

2. Build and/or load the HDF5 library.

3. Modify the rebuild.sh script to point to the location of the HDF5 library.

4. Execute the build script:
   ./rebuild.sh

Sample build script:

We used modules for MPI and HDF5.

# MPI=openmpi-4.1.2-intel2021.4.0
MPI=intelmpi-2021.7.0
if [[ "$MPI" =~ ^intel ]]; then
        module load hdf5/1.10.7-impi-intel
        export I_MPI_F90=ifort
else
        module load hdf5/1.10.7-ompi-intel
        export OMPI_MPIF90=ifort
fi
#################################################################

# Location of local hdf5 installed with same compiler being used for POT3D:
HDF5_INCLUDE_DIR="$HDF5_ROOT/include"
HDF5_LIB_DIR="$HDF5_ROOT/lib"
# Fortran HDF5 library flags (these can be version dependent):
HDF5_LIB_FLAGS="-lhdf5_fortran -lhdf5_hl_fortran -lhdf5 -lhdf5_hl""
...

Running an Example

The following commands will run a test case with NP MPI ranks and validate that the code is working.

NP=1

cd testsuite

POT3D_HOME=$PWD/..
TEST="small"

cp ${POT3D_HOME}/testsuite/${TEST}/input/* ${POT3D_HOME}/testsuite/${TEST}/run/
cd ${POT3D_HOME}/testsuite/${TEST}/run

echo "Running POT3D with $NP MPI rank..."
mpirun -np $NP ${POT3D_HOME}/bin/pot3d > pot3d.log
echo "Done!"

# Get runtime:
runtime=($(tail -n 5 timing.out | head -n 1))
echo "Wall clock time: ${runtime[6]} seconds"
echo " "

# Validate run:
${POT3D_HOME}/scripts/pot3d_validation.sh pot3d.out ${POT3D_HOME}/testsuite/${TEST}/validation/pot3d.out

Task and Submission

1. Use the input under testsuite/isc2023 folder.

2. Run POT3D with isc2023 input.
   ifprec=1 must be used for the competition.
   Your job should converge at 25112 steps and print outputs like below:

    ### The CG solver has converged.
    Iteration:    25112   Residual:   9.972489313728662E-13

3. Submission and Presentation:
   - Submit all your build scripts, run scripts, inputs, and output text files (pot3d.dat, pot3d.out, timing.out, etc.)
   - Do not submit the output HDF5 data or the source code.