Software Catalog

Much of our knowledge and experience is embodied in the FASTMath software tools, many of which are Department of Energy (DOE) landmark packages that are widely available and used by DOE and other application scientists. A strength of the FASTMath project is its ability to build a more integrated, high-performing software base for applications, while sharing software development best practices internally and across DOE. To fully realize this potential, we must bring together software products with varying degrees of interoperability, maturity, robustness, and user support.  Our efforts aim at improving quality, reducing barriers to adoption, and facilitating integration of the many FASTMath software products. 

A list of FASTMath software tools is provided here, along with links for further information and for downloading the software packages.

Software quality is important to the FASTMath Institute; we note that the following FASTMath software packages are included in the xSDK release (see https://xsdk.info) : AMREX, ButterflyPACK, hypre, libEnsemble, MFEM, Omega_h, PETSc/TAO, PUMI, STRUMPACK, SUNDIALS, SuperLU, and the packages contained in Trilinos).  These packages appear in bold below.


Structured Mesh Tools for Problem Discretization

AMReX

Block-structured AMR framework for mesh and particle data in regular and complex geometries

Chombo

Tools for implementing finite-difference and finite-volume methods for solving  PDEs on block-structured AMR grids with complex geometries

Unstructured Mesh Tools for Problem Discretization

Albany

Unstructured grid finite element code with optimization

EnGPar

N-Graph based dynamic load balance improvement tool

MFEM

Scalable C++ library for high-order finite element discretizations

Omega_h

Tetrahedron and triangle mesh adaptativity, with a focus on scalable HPC performance using MPI and OpenMP or CUDA, released as part of PUMI Components.

PCMS

Parallel coupling methods for multimodel simulations released as part of PUMI Components.

PHASTA

Adaptive unstructured grid computational fluid dynamics

PUMI/ParMA

Parallel unstructured mesh infrastructure including curved mesh adaptation and dynamic load balancing, released as part of PUMI Components.

PUMIPic

Infrastructure to support PIC operations on distributed unstructured meshes released as part of PUMI Components.

Zoltan/Zoltan2

Dynamic load balancing, partitioning, task placement, data ordering, coloring, released as part of the Trilinos package.

Tools for Time Discretization

SUNDIALS

Time integrators, nonlinear solvers for algebraic systems

Tools for Solution of Sparse Linear Systems

FFTX

Framework that provides run-time compilation of optimized code targeted to perform fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) and small kernels composed of FFTs with linear operators. 

hypre

High-performance preconditioners and solvers for large sparse linear systems

MueLu

Algebraic multigrid methods released as part of the Trilinos package

PDSLin

Hybrid direct/iterative solver

SuperLU

Direct solution of large sparse nonsymmetric systems

symPACK

Direct solution of sparse symmetric systems of linear equations

Tools for Solution of Nonlinear Systems

KINSOL

Nonlinear solvers for algebraic systems released as part of SUNDIALS package

NOX

Nonlinear solver released as part of the Trilinos package

Tools for Solution of More General Algebraic Systems

ButterflyPACK

Direct solution of large dense rank-structured systems

FASTEig

Compute eigenpairs or perform spectral analysis of large sparse or structured matrices

Kokkos Kernels

Library for node-level, performance-portable, computational kernels for sparse/dense linear algebra and graph operations

PETSc

Numerical solution of partial differential equations

ShyLU

Solver library that has implementations of domain decomposition algorithms and node-level direct solvers, released as part of the Trilinos package.

STRUMPACK

Software library that provides linear algebra routines for sparse matrices and for dense rank-structured matrices

Tools for Numerical Optimization

libEnsemble

Managing ensemble-like collections of computations

blackboxoptim

Surrogate model based optimization and active learning for scientific application

ORBIT

Bound-constrained derivative-free optimization solver

ParMOO

A Python library for parallel objective multiobjective simulation optimization

PyOED

PyOED brings together variational and Bayesian data assimilation algorithms for inverse problems, optimal design of experiments, and novel optimization, statistical, and reinforcement learning solvers, into an integrated extensible research environment. 

ROL

C++ package for large-scale optimization released as part of the Trilinos package

TAO

Toolkit for Advanced Optimization

Tools for Uncertainty Quantification

Dakota

Flexible interface between simulation codes and iterative systems analysis methods.

PyTUQ

Library for Python tools and workflows for uncertainty quantification.