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timewave, a classical time evolution simulation engine in python.

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timewave, a classical time evolution simulation engine in python. It consists of four building blocks.

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The State

which evolves over time during a simulation path. It is the nucleus or node which marks a point of time in a path.

The Producer

is the objects that provides states to the simulation and does the actual time evolution. Think of the producer building as the constructor of a stochastic process like a Brownian motion or, less mathematical, future stock prices or future rain intensities.

The Consumer

is an object that takes a state as a point in time provided by the producer and consumes it, i.e. does something with it - the actual calculation if you like.

The Engine

finally, which organizes the creation of states by the producer and the consumption by the consumer. The engine uses, if present, multiprocessing, i.e. takes full advantage of multi cpu frameworks. Therefore the engine splits the simulation into equal but distinct chunks of path for the number of workers (by default the number of cpu) and loops over the set of dedicated path in each worker. Each path is evolved by the producer in states which are at each point in time consumed directly by consumers. States are, due to limits of resources, not stored during the simulation. If you like to, use the storage consumer to save all states.

main frame workflow

setup simulation by

engine = Engine(Producer(), Consumer())
engine.run(range(20))

then run loop starts by

producer/initialize()

setup workers (by default by the number of cpu’s) on each worker start loop by

producer/consumer.initialize_worker()

and invoke loop over paths and start again with

producer/consumer.initialize_path()

then do time evolution of a path

producer.evolve() / consumer.consume()

and finish with last consumer in consumer stack

consumer[-1].finalize_path()

and

consumer[-1].finalize_worker()

put results into queue and take them out by

consumer[-1].put()/get(result)

finish simulation (kind of reduce method)

consumer[-1].finalize()

before returning results from run.

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