PARAVT: Parallel Voronoi Tessellation code
Abstract
We present a new open source code for massive parallel computation of Voronoi tessellations(VT hereafter) in large data sets. The code is focused for astrophysical purposes where VT densities and neighbors are widely used. There are several serial Voronoi tessellation codes, however no open source and parallel implementations are available to handle the large number of particles/galaxies in current N-body simulations and sky surveys. Parallelization is implemented under MPI and VT using Qhull library. Domain decomposition takes into account consistent boundary computation between tasks, and includes periodic conditions. In addition, the code computes neighbors list, Voronoi density, Voronoi cell volume, density gradient for each particle, and densities on a regular grid.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1601.06429,
title = {PARAVT: Parallel Voronoi Tessellation code},
author = {Roberto E. Gonzalez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06429},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Computing. Code available at https://github.com/regonzar/paravt