corsika-panama 0.1.0

PArallel ruN of corsikA on MAny cores and other python utils to work with CORSIKA

PANAMA

PANdas And Multicore utils for corsikA7

Thanks @Jean1995 for the silly naming idea.

What this is

CORSIKA7 parallelization

This started a little while ago while I was looking into the EHIST option of corsika. I wanted a way of conveniently running CORSIKA7 on more than 1 core. I ended in the same place where most CORSIKA7 users end (see e.g. fact-project/corsika_wrapper) and wrote a small wrapper. Once this package is installed, you can use it with the panama command (see panama --help for options).

This wrapper has a nice progress bar, so you get an estimate for how long your simulation needs.

Pitfalls

• The whole run folder of CORSIKA7 must be copied for each proccess, so very high parallel runs have high overhead
• If you simulate to low energies, python can't seem to hold up with the corsika output to stdin and essentially slows down corsika this is still a bug in investigation #1

CORSIKA7 DAT files to pandas dataframe with working EHIST

Made possible by cta-observatory/pycorsikaio.

What this is not

Bug-free or stable

Installation

To install this module, clone it

git clone [e-mail]:The-Ludwig/PANAMA.git

and run

pip install ./PANAMA

A future PyPi release is planned.