{"id":4764,"date":"2020-10-02T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/?page_id=4764"},"modified":"2021-06-11T16:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:15:39","slug":"neper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/software\/applications\/neper\/","title":{"rendered":"Neper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<\/h2>\n<p>Neper is a software package for polycrystal generation and meshing. It can deal with 2D and 3D polycrystals with very large numbers of grains. Neper is built around four modules: generation, meshing, simulation and visualization. All the input data are prescribed |non-interactively, using command lines and \/ or ASCII files.<\/p>\n<p>Neper uses several external software packages:<\/p>\n<p>    mesh-specific packages: Gmsh, libScotch.<br \/>\n    general-purpose packages: GNU Scientific Library (GSL)<br \/>\n    graphics package: POV-Ray<\/p>\n<p>Version 4.0.1 is available on CSF3.<\/p>\n<h2>Restrictions on use<\/h2>\n<p>Neper is distributed as a free\/open-source software, under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). <\/p>\n<h2>Set up procedure<\/h2>\n<p>To use the software you will need to load the modulefile:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\"># Neper 4.0.1\r\nmodule load apps\/gcc\/neper\/4.0.1<\/pre>\n<p>This will load all required packages including gmsh and povray as well as the NLopt library.<\/p>\n<h2>Running the application<\/h2>\n<p>Neper must be run in batch <\/p>\n<h3>Examples<\/h3>\n<h3>Serial batch job submission<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure you have the module loaded.<\/li>\n<li>Create or upload an input file to your working directory.<\/li>\n<li>Write a submission script, for example:\n<pre>\r\n#!\/bin\/bash --login\r\n## Use the current directory as the working directory - input and output files are here\r\n#$ -cwd\r\n\r\nmodule load apps\/gcc\/neper\/4.0.1\r\n\r\nneper module_name module_arguments \r\n# Where the module name can be -T,-M,-S or-V, and the module arguments can include both required input data and options.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Submit with: <code>qsub scriptname<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Parallel batch job submission<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure you have the module loaded.<\/li>\n<li>Create or upload an input file to your working directory.<\/li>\n<li>Write a submission script, for example:\n<pre>\r\n#!\/bin\/bash --login\r\n## Use the current directory as the working directory - input and output files are here\r\n#$ -cwd\r\n#$ -pe smp.pe 4          # Number of cores (2--32). \r\n\r\nexport OMP_NUM_THREADS=$NSLOTS\r\n\r\nmodule load apps\/gcc\/neper\/4.0.1\r\n\r\nneper module_name module_arguments \r\n# Where the module name can be -T,-M,-S or-V, and the module arguments can include both required input data and options.\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Submit with: <code>qsub scriptname<\/code><\/li>\n<h2>Further info<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Further information including detailed documentation can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/neper.info\/index.html\">Neper Website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Neper is a software package for polycrystal generation and meshing. It can deal with 2D and 3D polycrystals with very large numbers of grains. Neper is built around four modules: generation, meshing, simulation and visualization. All the input data are prescribed |non-interactively, using command lines and \/ or ASCII files. Neper uses several external software packages: mesh-specific packages: Gmsh, libScotch. general-purpose packages: GNU Scientific Library (GSL) graphics package: POV-Ray Version 4.0.1 is available on.. <a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/software\/applications\/neper\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4764","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4764\/revisions\/4777"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/csf3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}