Creating an ACE3P Project

Most of your menu interactions will be with the ACE3P project menu, which has items to open existing ModelBuilder projects, create new projects, save projects, and close projects. It also includes menu items “Add Stage…” for adding multiple analysis stages to projects, “Submit Analysis Job…” to generate ACE3P input files and run jobs on NERSC computing resources, and “Login to NERSC” for authentication.

To provide a working example, we will be using the pillbox-rtop4.gen mesh file from the ACE3P code workshops. You can download a copy of this file from the ModelBuilder for ACE3P Data Folder if needed.

1. Specify a New Project Directory

To begin, open the ACE3P menu and select the New Project… item. In response, ModelBuilder displays a dialog for setting the project name and file system location for storing persistent data.

2. Input the Analysis Mesh

When you click the Next button, modelbuilder displays a dialog to select the mesh geometry file from the local file system. You can enter a Genesis (.gen) file or NetCDF (.ncdf) file. Use the Browse button to locate and enter the pillbox-rtop4.gen file and click the Create Project button.

ModelBuilder for ACE3P will then create the new project and import the geometry file. When done, the dialog will display a Finished message. When you click the dialog’s Close button, modelbuilder will display the pillbox mesh in the 3-D view and the Attribute Editor tab will contain a child tab labeled Modules.