For more information, please visit [[http://asl.org.il]].
Advanced Simulation Library (ASL) is a free and open source hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform (and an extensible general purpose tool for solving Partial Differential Equations). Its computational engine is written in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL][OpenCL]] and utilizes matrix-free solution techniques which enable [[http://asl.org.il/benchmarks][extraordinarily high performance, memory efficiency and deployability]] on a variety of massively parallel architectures, ranging from inexpensive FPGAs, DSPs and GPUs up to heterogeneous clusters and supercomputers. The engine is hidden entirely behind [[http://asl.org.il/doc/Developer-Guide/locomotive_8cc-example.html][simple C++ classes]], so that no OpenCL knowledge is required from application programmers. Mesh-free, immersed boundary approach allows one to [[http://asl.org.il/documentation/#running-an-example][move from CAD directly to simulation]] drastically reducing pre-processing efforts and amount of potential errors. ASL can be used to model various coupled physical and chemical phenomena and employed in a multitude of fields: computational fluid dynamics, virtual sensing, industrial process data validation and reconciliation, image-guided surgery, computer-aided engineering, design space exploration, crystallography, etc..
** License
ASL is distributed under the free GNU Affero General Public License (AGPLv3) with an optional [[http://asl.org.il/licensing][commercial license]].
** Support
Professional consulting, training and integration services are provided by [[http://avtechscientific.com][Avtech Scientific]], whose team created and continues to extend the library. The company offers [[http://avtechscientific.com/services][innovative R&D solutions]] and is involved in diverse academic and industrial [[http://avtechscientific.com/projects][collaborative projects]] dealing with complex multidisciplinary problems.
** Quick Start
*** Installation
Install [[http://cmake.org][cmake]] (>=3.0.2, BSD License) and the required libraries:
Download and extract the [[https://github.com/AvtechScientific/ASL/releases/latest][ASL source code archive]].
Create a build directory: =mkdir build-asl && cd build-asl=
Use [[http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.2/manual/cmake-generators.7.html][cmake generator]] to produce Makefiles: =cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../ASL= or project files for your IDE (Visual Studio, Xcode, Eclipse, etc.): =cmake -G "Visual Studio 10" ../ASL=
Run make (as root if installing into default destination =/usr/local=): =make install=
*** Running an example
*** Writing your own code using ASL
pkg-config --cflags --libs ASL
-std=c++11 -o flow flow.cc=project(locomotive)
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0.2 FATAL_ERROR)
find_package(ASL 0.1.6 CONFIG REQUIRED)
set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11")
add_executable(locomotive locomotive.cc)
target_link_libraries(locomotive PRIVATE ASL::aslnum ASL::aslvtk ASL::asl)