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Advanced Simulation Library
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Advanced Simulation Library is being developed by Avtech Scientific, an Israeli company. Its <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> was released to the community on 14 May 2015, whose members packaged it for scientific sections of all major <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a> distributions shortly thereafter.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> Subsequently, <a href="/facts/Khronos_Group/QIegX0zJ">Khronos Group</a> acknowledged the significance of ASL and listed it on its website among OpenCL-based resources.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="application-areas">Application areas</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Computational_fluid_dynamics/zuWdtNJp">Computational fluid dynamics</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Computer-assisted_surgery/LtcqogRT">Computer-assisted surgery</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Virtual_sensing/nPEbFVc9">Virtual sensing</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Data_validation_and_reconciliation/DH4IRuyM">Industrial process data validation and reconciliation</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Multidisciplinary_design_optimization/HbVyX8eo">Multidisciplinary design optimization</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Design_space_exploration/MCqcNb5U">Design space exploration</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Computer-aided_engineering/dAsPLr5Y">Computer-aided engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Crystallography/9B5toeqG">Crystallography</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Microfluidics/UW3LnTdE">Microfluidics</a></li></ul> <h2 id="advantages-and-disadvantages">Advantages and disadvantages</h2> <h3>Advantages</h3> <ul><li>C++ API<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> (no OpenCL knowledge required)</li> <li>Mesh-free, immersed boundary approach allows users to move from CAD directly to computations reducing pre-processing effort</li> <li>Dynamic compilation enables an additional layer of optimization at run-time (i.e. for a specific parameters set the application was provided with)</li> <li>Automatic hardware acceleration and parallelization of applications</li> <li>Deployment of same program on a variety of parallel architectures - GPU, APU, FPGA, DSP, multicore CPUs</li> <li>Ability to deal with complex boundaries</li> <li>Ability to incorporate microscopic interactions</li> <li>Availability of the source code</li></ul> <h3>Disadvantages</h3> <ul><li>Absence of detailed documentation (besides the Developer Guide generated from the source code comments)</li> <li>Not all OpenCL drivers are mature enough for the library<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="features">Features</h2> <p>ASL provides a range of features to solve number of problems - from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid mechanics and elasticity.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>Interfacing: <a href="/facts/VTK/SXTm1vTl">VTK</a>/<a href="/facts/ParaView/YCvNbd0l">ParaView</a>, <a href="/facts/MATLAB/qPjLISCk">MATLAB</a> (export). <ul><li>import file formats: .stl .vtp .vtk .vti .mnc <a href="/facts/DICOM/BsEVLh79">.dcm</a></li> <li>export file formats: .vti .mat</li></ul></li> <li>Geometry: <ul><li>flexible and complex geometry using simple <a href="/facts/Regular_grid/8vDdL4UB">rectangular grid</a></li> <li>mesh-free, immersed boundary approach</li> <li>generation and manipulation of geometric primitives</li></ul></li> <li>Implemented phenomena: <ul><li>Transport processes <ul><li>multicomponent transport processes</li> <li>compressible and incompressible fluid flow</li></ul></li> <li>Chemical reactions <ul><li>electrode reactions</li></ul></li> <li>Elasticity <ul><li>homogeneous isotropic elasticity</li> <li>homogeneous isotropic poroelasticity</li></ul></li> <li>Interface tracking <ul><li>evolution of an interface</li> <li>evolution of an interface with crystallographic kinetics</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <h2 id="uses">Uses</h2> <ul><li>ACTIVE - Active Constraints Technologies for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments (European FP7 Project)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"ASL - expanding software ecosystem for the DSP/FPGA/GPU market" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 August 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170825181459/http://hgpu.org/papers/AvtechScientific-ASL_Presentation.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170825181459/http://hgpu.org/papers/AvtechScientific-ASL_Presentation.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"ASL - ASL enters Linux distributions at a record-breaking pace". asl.org.il. <a href="http://asl.org.il/2015/07/31/ASL_enters_Linux/" target="_blank">http://asl.org.il/2015/07/31/ASL_enters_Linux/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Advanced Simulation Library". openSUSE Build Service. <a href="https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/science/ASL" target="_blank">https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/science/ASL</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Debian -- Details of package libasl0 in sid". packages.debian.org. <a href="https://packages.debian.org/sid/libasl0" target="_blank">https://packages.debian.org/sid/libasl0</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"asl « sci-libs - proj/sci.git - Gentoo Science Overlay". cgit.gentoo.org. <a href="https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/sci.git/tree/sci-libs/asl" target="_blank">https://cgit.gentoo.org/proj/sci.git/tree/sci-libs/asl</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"ASL for Fedora". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151208172816/https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/libASL/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20151208172816/https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/libASL/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Arch Linux - Package Search". archlinux.org. <a href="https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=libasl" target="_blank">https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=libasl</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"OpenCL - The Open Standard for Parallel Programming of Heterogeneous Systems". The Khronos Group. 21 July 2013. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211008014411/https://www.khronos.org/resources/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20211008014411/https://www.khronos.org/resources/</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"ASL: locomotive.cc". asl.org.il. <a href="http://asl.org.il/doc/Developer-Guide/locomotive_8cc-example.html" target="_blank">http://asl.org.il/doc/Developer-Guide/locomotive_8cc-example.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"Deployment · AvtechScientific/ASL Wiki". GitHub. 25 July 2022. <a href="https://github.com/AvtechScientific/ASL" target="_blank">https://github.com/AvtechScientific/ASL</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Scientific, Avtech (3 September 2015). "Advanced Simulation Library: Expanding software ecosystem for the DSP/FPGA/GPU market" – via hgpu.org. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) <a href="https://hgpu.org/?p=14517" target="_blank">https://hgpu.org/?p=14517</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Results - Intraoperative Brain Shift | The Active Project". www.active-fp7.eu. <a href="http://www.active-fp7.eu/index.php/resultsmenu/intraopbs.html" target="_blank">http://www.active-fp7.eu/index.php/resultsmenu/intraopbs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"ASL assists neurosurgeons and robots, computes brain deformation in real time - Technology OrgTechnology Org". 14 September 2015. <a href="https://www.technology.org/2015/09/14/asl-assists-neurosurgeons-and-robots-computes-brain-deformation-in-real-time/" target="_blank">https://www.technology.org/2015/09/14/asl-assists-neurosurgeons-and-robots-computes-brain-deformation-in-real-time/</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"ASL Software Assists Neurosurgeons and Robots". interestingengineering.com. 28 November 2016. <a href="https://interestingengineering.com/how-asl-assists-neurosurgeons-and-robots" target="_blank">https://interestingengineering.com/how-asl-assists-neurosurgeons-and-robots</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>