Paicos - a Python package for analysis of (cosmological) simulations performed with Arepo

Getting started

• How to install
  • Creating an environment
  • Option 1: Installing directly via PyPi or conda-forge
  • Option 2 (Developer installation): Compile the code and add its path to your PYTHONPATH
  • GPU/CUDA requirements
• Running the examples and notebooks
  • Downloading sample data
  • Overview of the main Paicos classes
  • Main GPU classes
• User configuration
  • Turn units/automatic derivations on/off
  • Custom user units
  • Custom user functions
  • Openmp parallel execution of code
  • Setting up user settings
• How to cite

Notebook examples

• Notebook 1: Loading snapshots with units and derived variables
  • Compilation
  • Loading arepo snapshots
  • Useful metadata
  • Loading of data blocks
  • Unit conversion
  • Loading automatically computed derived variables
• Notebook 2: Creating, saving and reading projections and slices
  • Making projections
  • Making slices
  • Storing image data
  • Reading image data
  • Advanced plotting and dealing with units
• Notebook 3: Creating, saving and reading radial profiles
  • Making a radial profile
  • Storing data
  • Reading data
  • Define a custom reader
  • Plotting the radial profiles and dealing with units
• Notebook 4: Creating 2D Histograms
  • Making a 2D histogram
  • Plotting the histogram
  • Saving a rhoTogram
  • Loading and plotting a 2D histogram
• Notebook 5a: SPH-projection on the GPU + orientation class
  • Initialize orientation
  • Initialize projectors
  • Project density and display it
• Notebook 5b: Ray-tracing projection on the GPU
  • Plot comparison between CPU and GPU
• Notebook 6: Ray tracing and interactive data visualization on the GPU
  • Required python packages
  • Do a manual pre-selection
  • Initialize the GPU projector
  • Some code for sorting FoF and subfind catalogues
  • The interactive widget

Python scripts and tests

• Python scripts
  • Basic features
  • Customizing your Paicos setup
• Tests

Documentation strings

• Overview
  • paicos package
• HDF5 Readers
  • paicos.readers package
• HDF5 Writers
  • paicos.writers package
• Image creators (projectors and slicers)
  • paicos.image_creators package
• 1D and 2D Histograms
  • paicos.histograms package