longitudinal-tomography 3.5.1.dev3

A python library for longitudinal particle beam tomography

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INSTALLATION

The computationally intensive or time-critical parts of the library is written in C++ and python bindings are provided using pybind11. The installation and usage of the library is the same for all operating systems, but different dependencies are needed for different operating systems.

Installing using package manager

The Longitudinal Tomography package is available in prebuilt wheels for Python 3.11 on CERN Acc-Py and pypy.org as longitudinal-tomography. The package can thus easily be installed on a Linux machine using

pip install longitudinal-tomography

The package can be installed on a MacOS or Windows machine in the same manner, but the C++ extension will be built on install.

Installing manually

Prerequisites

Linux

You need a C++ compiler like g++ installed. This is not required if installing a prebuilt package from acc-py or pypi.

Windows

On Windows computers MSVC >= 14.0 with the Windows 10 SDK is required.

In MinGW and WSL environments the standard g++ compiler works out of the box.

MacOS

You need to use a compiler other that the default provided on MacOS (gcc is symlinked to clang by default). The easiest way (and the way that us currently supported) is to install llvm and openmp with Homebrew: brew install llvm openmp.

Installation instructions

For MacOS see next section.

Clone the repository and run

pip install .

The C++ extension will be built on install using the native compiler in Linux and Windows (pybind11 should find it).

For development environments where it’s preferable to compile the C++ extension inplace, it’s possible to run the command

pip install -e .

which will compile the C++ extension using the available compiler (decided by setuptools).

MacOS

MacOS requires some special treatment for the extension to compile. You need to tell pip to use Homebrew clang and llvm instead of the default compiler and libraries. This can be done by setting the CC, LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables. You also need to install the libomp package with Homebrew.

On arm64 (M1/M2) MacBooks, use the following: ..

export LDFLAGS=”-L/opt/homebrew/lib -L/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/lib” export CPPFLAGS=”-I/opt/homebrew/include -I/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/include” CC=/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/clang++ pip install .

Or use the -e flag for an editable installation. For Intel MacBooks, Homebrew packages are installed in a different location.

Hence, for Intel MacBooks, use the following:

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/homebrew/lib -L/usr/local/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/homebrew/include -I/usr/local/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/include"
CC=/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/clang++ pip install .

Documentation

This development is based on the well tested and widely used FORTRAN95 code, documented and available here: http://tomograp.web.cern.ch/tomograp/ Details on the algorithms in both codes, and the differences between them, can be found here: https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/2750116?ln=ka

Documentation

This development is based on the well tested and widely used FORTRAN95 code, documented and available here: http://tomograp.web.cern.ch/tomograp/ Details on the algorithms in both codes, and the differences between them, can be found here: https://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/2750116?ln=ka

Parallelization using OpenMP

The C++ extension is accelerated by OpenMP parallel for loops. It is possible to limit the number of launched threads by setting it in the extension, by

from longitudinal_tomography.cpp_routines import libtomo
libtomo.set_num_threads([num_threads])

which will set the maximum number of used threads to [num_threads].