*Wireworld* is a simple cellular automaton, similar to the Game of Life. The game area is a 2-dimensional rectangle of cells. Each generation a set of rules are applied which define the next state of the cell depending on the neighboring cells.
This example shows how to distribute the simulation of Wireworld across multiple compute nodes. This includes Parallel IO for the input/output files and parallel computation of the next generation.localized.
The computation is distributed by spatially splitting the Wireworld rectangle into smaller chunks (*Tiles*). Where each compute node has one tile. At the border of each tile, there has to be communication with the neighboring tiles (**Halo Exchange**)
For a general description of *Wireworld* and the file format, see the `README.md` file in the parent directory.
This code sample demonstrates:
* Using **Collective IO** MPI functions for efficiently reading and writing from multiple nodes to the same File, i.e. `MPI_File_set_view`, `MPI_File_read_all`
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*`MpiWireworld.*`: Simulating a generation step, computing next state
*`Tile.*`: Represents a Tile, memory management, debugging
File Format:
The Wireworld file format is a text format. The first line is the header. The header has 2 positive integers, separated by space, which define the number of *colums*(width) and the number of *rows*(height) of the Wireworld.
In the following lines, the wireworld data is provided.
Each line is a row.
There are exactly *rows* lines and each line is exactly *colums* long.
The following characters are allowed:
*` `: whitespace/empty
*`#`: conductor
*`@`: electron head
*`~`: electron tail
Note: Be aware that the line ending must match your operating systems convention.
## Release Date
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either on the command line or in your batch script, where `g` specifies the number of iterations, `f` the inputfile, `o` the output file and `m` the communication mode.
either on the command line or in your batch script, where an inputfile must be provided.
### Command line arguments
*`-r [ --gridrows ]`: number of rows in the grid to form the tiles (optional, automatically deduced)
*`-c [ --gridcols ]`: number of columns in the grid to form the tiles (optional, automatically deduced)
*`-x [ --nprocs-x ]`: number of processes in x-direction (optional, automatically deduced)
*`-r [ --nprocs-y ]`: number of processes in y-direction (optional, automatically deduced)
*`-g [ --generations ]`: number of generations simulated (default 1000)
*`-m [ --commmode ]`: Communication Mode. Collective or P2P (default Collective)
*`-m [ --commmode ]`: Communication Mode. `Collective` or `P2P` (default Collective)
*`-f [ --inputfile ]`: path to wireworld input file (mandatory, flag can be obmitted) The file dimension must be divisible by the *grid dimension.
*`-o [ --outputfile ]`: path to wireworld input file (optional, no writing)
*`-o [ --outputfile ]`: path to wireworld input file (optional)