openPMD

Section author: Axel Huebl

Module author: Axel Huebl

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This section collects links to external resources for the openPMD data standard. For a description of PIConGPU’s openPMD plugin, refer to the plugin documentation, or to the 5 minute tutorial.

If you hear about openPMD* for the first time you can find a quick online tutorial on it here.

As a user of PIConGPU, you will be mainly interested in our python tools and readers, that can read openPMD, e.g. into:

• read & write data: openPMD-api (manual)

• visualization and analysis, including an exploratory Jupyter notebook GUI: openPMD-viewer (tutorial)

• yt-project (tutorial)

• ParaView

• VisIt

• converter tools: openPMD-converter

• full list of projects using openPMD

If you intend to write your own post-processing routines, make sure to check out our example files, the formal, open standard on openPMD and a list of projects that already support openPMD.