Installation

The base install of SENSEI depends on CMake, MPI, Python, SWIG, numpy, and mpi4py.

git clone https://github.com/SENSEI-insitu/SENSEI
mkdir sensei-build
cd sensei-build
cmake ../SENSEI
make -j

This base install enables one to perform in situ in Python using user provided Python scripts. For more information on Python based in situ see our ISAV 2018 paper.

Additional in situ and in transit processing capabilities are available by enabling various build options on the CMake command line.

Build Option	Default	Description
SENSEI_ENABLE_CUDA	OFF	Enables CUDA accelerated codes. Requires compute capability 7.5 and CUDA 11 or later.
SENSEI_ENABLE_PYTHON	ON	Enables Python bindings. Requires Python, Numpy, mpi4py, and SWIG.
SENSEI_ENABLE_CATALYST	OFF	Enables the Catalyst analysis adaptor. Depends on ParaView Catalyst. Set ParaView_DIR.
SENSEI_ ENABLE_CATALYST_PYTHON	OFF	Enables Python features of the Catalyst analysis adaptor.
ParaView_DIR		Set to the directory containing ParaViewConfig.cmake.
SENSEI_ENABLE_ASCENT	OFF	Enables the Ascent analysis adaptor. Requires an Ascent install.
ASCENT_DIR		Set to the directory containing the Ascent CMake configuration.
SENSEI_ENABLE_ADIOS2	OFF	Enables ADIOS 2 in transit transport. Set ADIOS2_DIR.
ADIOS2_DIR		Set to the directory containing ADIOSConfig.cmake
SENSEI_ENABLE_HDF5	OFF	Enables HDF5 adaptors and endpoints. Set HDF5_DIR.
HDF5_DIR		Set to the directory containing HDF5Config.cmake
SENSEI_ENABLE_LIBSIM	OFF	Enables Libsim data and analysis adaptors. Requires Libsim. Set VTK_DIR and LIBSIM_DIR.
LIBSIM_DIR		Path to libsim install.
SENSEI_ENABLE_VTK_IO	OFF	Enables adaptors to write to VTK XML format.
SENSEI_ENABLE_VTK_MPI	OFF	Enables MPI parallel VTK filters, such as parallel I/O.
VTK_DIR		Set to the directory containing VTKConfig.cmake.
SENSEI_ENABLE_VTKM	OFF	Enables analyses that use VTK-m. Requires an install of VTK-m. Experimental, each implementation requires an exact version match