- The -rotate-angle option allows convenient specification of a
rotation about an arbitrary axis. Eg, -rotate-angle '((1 1 1) 45)'
- The -origin option can be used to temporarily shift the origin
for the rotation operations. For example,
-origin '(0 0 1)' -rotate-angle '((1 0 0) 180)'
for mirroring.
- include amount of free system memory in profiling, which can give an
indication of when swapping is about to start
- profilingSummary utility to collect profiling from parallel
calculations. Collects profiling information from processor
directories and summarize the time spent and number of calls as (max
avg min) values.
- split now optionally retains empty substrings.
Added split on fixed field width.
- Foam::name() now formats directly into string buffer, which a
removes one layer of copying and also avoids using a non-constexpr
in the temporary.
STYLE: explicit type narrowing on zero-padded output for ensight
- this makes them applicable to Foam::string, Foam::word etc
ENH: improvements to CStringList
- add strings() sublist variant which can be useful when handling
command arguments separately
- add construct from SubStrings.
- this provides a better typesafe means of locating predefined cell
models than relying on strings. The lookup is now ptr() or ref()
directly. The lookup functions behave like on-demand singletons when
loading "etc/cellModels".
Functionality is now located entirely in cellModel but a forwarding
version of cellModeller is provided for API (but not ABI) compatibility
with older existing user code.
STYLE: use constexpr for cellMatcher constants
- when dictionary keywords change between versions, the programmer
can use these compatibility methods to help with migration.
* csearchCompat, foundCompat, lookupEntryPtrCompat, lookupEntryCompat,
lookupCompat, lookupOrDefaultCompat, readIfPresentCompat, ...
They behave like their similarly named base versions, but accept an
additional list of older keyword names augmented by a version number.
For example,
dict.readIfPresentCompat
(
"key", {{"olderName", 1612}, {"veryOld", 240}},
myscalar
);
where 1612=OpenFOAM-v1612, 240=OpenFOAM-v2.4.x, etc.
- If the entry could be directly inserted: a pointer to the inserted entry.
- If a dictionary merge was required: a pointer to the dictionary that
received the entry.
- Return nullptr on any type of insertion failure.
This change is code compatible with existing code since it only alters
a bool return value to be a pointer return value.
- improved memory alignment reduces overhead for Int32 compilation
- added move/swap semantics
- made the type() readonly in favour of setVariant() to allow change
of variant within a particular storage representation.
Eg, STRING -> VERBATIMSTRING.
- the zero::null and one::null sub-classes add an additional null
output adapter.
The function of the nil class (special-purpose class only used for
HashSet) is now taken by zero::null.
- consistent with C++ STL conventions, the reverse iterators should
use operator++ to transit the list from rbegin() to rend().
The previous implementation used raw pointers, which meant that they
had the opposite behaviour: operator-- to transit from rbegin() to
rend().
The updated version only has operator++ defined, thus the compiler
should catch any possible instances where people were using the old
(incorrect) versions.
- updated forAllReverseIters() and forAllConstReverseIters() macros to
be consistent with new implementation and with C++ STL conventions.
- Instead of relying on #inputMode to effect a global change it is now
possible (and recommended) to a temporary change in the inputMode
for the following entry.
#default : provide default value if entry is not already defined
#overwrite : silently remove a previously existing entry
#warn : warn about duplicate entries
#error : error if any duplicate entries occur
#merge : merge sub-dictionaries when possible (the default mode)
This is generally less cumbersome than the switching the global
inputMode. For example to provide a set of fallback values.
#includeIfPresent "user-files"
...
#default value uniform 10;
vs.
#includeIfPresent "user-files"
#inputMode protect
...
value uniform 10;
#inputMode merge // _Assuming_ we actually had this before
These directives can also be used to suppress the normal dictionary
merge semantics:
#overwrite dict { entry val; ... }
- patterns only supported for the final element.
To create an element as a pattern instead of a word, an embedded
string quote (single or double) is used for that element.
Any of the following examples:
"/top/sub/dict/'(p|U).*" 100;
"/top/sub/dict/'(p|U).*'" 100;
"/top/sub/dict/\"(p|U).*" 100;
"/top/sub/dict/\"(p|U).*\"" 100;
are equivalent to the longer form:
top
{
sub
{
dict
{
"(p|U).*" 100;
}
}
}
It is not currently possible to auto-vivify intermediate
dictionaries with patterns.
NOK "/nonexistent.*/value" 100;
OK "/existing.*/value" 100;
- full scoping also works for the #remove directive
#remove "/dict1/subdict2/entry1"
- this increases the flexibility of the interface
- Add stringOps 'natural' string sorting comparison.
Digits are sorted in their natural order, which means that
(file10.txt file05.txt file2.txt)
are sorted as
(file2.txt file05.txt file10.txt)
STYLE: consistent naming of template parameters for comparators
- Compare for normal binary predicates
- ListComparePredicate for list compare binary predicates
- similar to word::validate to allow stripping of invalid characters
without triggering a FatalError.
- use this validated fileName in Foam::readDir to avoid problems when
a directory contains files with invalid characters in their names
- adjust rmDir to handle filenames with invalid characters
- fileName::equals() static method to compare strings while ignoring
any differences that are solely due to duplicate slashes
- more consistent naming:
* Versions that hold and manage their own memory:
IListStream, OListStream
* Versions that reference a fixed size external memory:
UIListStream, UOListStream
- use List storage instead of DynamicList within OListStream.
Avoids duplicate bookkeeping, more direct handling of resizing.
- The problem occurs when using atof to parse values such as "1e-39"
since this is out of range for a float and _can_ set errno to
ERANGE.
Similar to parsing of integers, now parse with the longest floating
point representation "long double" via strtold (guaranteed to be
part of C++11) and verify against the respective VGREAT values for
overflow. Treat anything smaller than VSMALL to be zero.
- these provide a similar functionality to string-streams, but operate
on a externally provided memory buffer which can be used to reduce
the amount of copying.
- classes were previously staged as part of the ADIOS community
repository.
- for convenience and symmetry with OStringStream
STYLE: void return value for stream rewind() methods
- this makes it easier to design bidirectional streams
- low-level beginRaw(), writeRaw(), endRaw() methods.
These can be used to directly add '()' decorators for serial output
or prepare/cleanup parallel buffers.
Used, for example, when outputting indirect lists in binary to avoid.
- used in various places to test if the input can be parsed as a
label/scalar, so warnings tend to flood the output.
- be more explicit when encountering range errors
- improve functional compatibility with DynList (remove methods)
* eg, remove an element from any position in a DynamicList
* reduce the number of template parameters
* remove/subset regions of DynamicList
- propagate Swap template specializations for lists, hashtables
- move construct/assignment to various containers.
- add find/found methods for FixedList and UList for a more succinct
(and clearer?) usage than the equivalent global findIndex() function.
- simplify List_FOR_ALL loops
Previously:
- bad command-line input such as -label 1234xyz would parse as a
label (with value 1234) and the trailing junk would be silently
ignored. This may or may not be appropriate. If the trailing junk
looked like this '100E' or '1000E-' (ie, forgot to type the
exponent), the incorrectly parsed values can be quite bad:
label = 32684
scalar = 6.93556e-310
Now:
- use the updated readLabel/readScalar routines that trigger a
FatalIOError on bad input:
--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
Trailing content found parsing '1234xyz'
--> FOAM FATAL IO ERROR:
Trailing content found parsing '100E'
This traps erroneous command-line input immediately.
- Any trailing whitespace when parsing from strings or character buffers
is ignored rather than being treated as an error. This is consistent
with behaviour when reading from an Istream and with leading whitespace
being ignored in the underlying atof/atod, strtof/strtod... functions.
- Allow parsing directly from a std::string instead of just from a 'char*'.
This reflects the C++11 addition of std::stod to complement the C
functions strtod. This also makes it easier to parse string directly
without using an IStringStream.
- Two-parameter parsing methods return success/failure.
Eg,
if (readInt32(str, &int32Val)) ...
- One-parameter parsing methods return the value on success or
emit a FatalIOError.
Eg,
const char* buf;
int32Val = readInt32(buf, &);
- Improved consistency when parsing unsigned ints.
Use strtoimax and strtoumax throughout.
- Rename readDoubleScalar -> readDouble, readFloatScalar -> readFloat.
Using the primitive name directly instead of the Foam typedef for
better consistency with readInt32 etc.
- Clean/improve parseNasScalar.
Handle normal numbers directly, reduce some operations.
Original commit message:
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Parallel IO: New collated file format
When an OpenFOAM simulation runs in parallel, the data for decomposed fields and
mesh(es) has historically been stored in multiple files within separate
directories for each processor. Processor directories are named 'processorN',
where N is the processor number.
This commit introduces an alternative "collated" file format where the data for
each decomposed field (and mesh) is collated into a single file, which is
written and read on the master processor. The files are stored in a single
directory named 'processors'.
The new format produces significantly fewer files - one per field, instead of N
per field. For large parallel cases, this avoids the restriction on the number
of open files imposed by the operating system limits.
The file writing can be threaded allowing the simulation to continue running
while the data is being written to file. NFS (Network File System) is not
needed when using the the collated format and additionally, there is an option
to run without NFS with the original uncollated approach, known as
"masterUncollated".
The controls for the file handling are in the OptimisationSwitches of
etc/controlDict:
OptimisationSwitches
{
...
//- Parallel IO file handler
// uncollated (default), collated or masterUncollated
fileHandler uncollated;
//- collated: thread buffer size for queued file writes.
// If set to 0 or not sufficient for the file size threading is not used.
// Default: 2e9
maxThreadFileBufferSize 2e9;
//- masterUncollated: non-blocking buffer size.
// If the file exceeds this buffer size scheduled transfer is used.
// Default: 2e9
maxMasterFileBufferSize 2e9;
}
When using the collated file handling, memory is allocated for the data in the
thread. maxThreadFileBufferSize sets the maximum size of memory in bytes that
is allocated. If the data exceeds this size, the write does not use threading.
When using the masterUncollated file handling, non-blocking MPI communication
requires a sufficiently large memory buffer on the master node.
maxMasterFileBufferSize sets the maximum size in bytes of the buffer. If the
data exceeds this size, the system uses scheduled communication.
The installation defaults for the fileHandler choice, maxThreadFileBufferSize
and maxMasterFileBufferSize (set in etc/controlDict) can be over-ridden within
the case controlDict file, like other parameters. Additionally the fileHandler
can be set by:
- the "-fileHandler" command line argument;
- a FOAM_FILEHANDLER environment variable.
A foamFormatConvert utility allows users to convert files between the collated
and uncollated formats, e.g.
mpirun -np 2 foamFormatConvert -parallel -fileHandler uncollated
An example case demonstrating the file handling methods is provided in:
$FOAM_TUTORIALS/IO/fileHandling
The work was undertaken by Mattijs Janssens, in collaboration with Henry Weller.
now possible with level-sets as well as planes. Removed tetPoints class
as this wasn't really used anywhere except for the old tet-cutting
routines. Restored tetPointRef.H to be consistent with other primitive
shapes. Re-wrote tet-overlap mapping in terms of the new cutting.
