HELICS vs Trilinos

HELICS

Hierarchical Engine for Large-scale Infrastructure Co-Simulation (HELICS) (by GMLC-TDC)

#Scientific Computing #Simulation #co-simulation #power-grids #simulation-framework

Source Code

docs.helics.org

Docs

Trilinos

Primary repository for the Trilinos Project (by trilinos)

#Scientific Computing #snl-science-libs #sandia-national-laboratories

Source Code

trilinos.org

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HELICS		Trilinos
	Project
0	Mentions	2
88	Stars	857
-	Growth	2.1%
7.5	Activity	9.9
15 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
C++	Language	C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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HELICS

Posts with mentions or reviews of HELICS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning HELICS yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Trilinos

Posts with mentions or reviews of Trilinos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.

Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022

If you want to see this line of thinking taken a bit too far, check out the list of Trilinos packages on github: https://github.com/trilinos/Trilinos/tree/master/packages
It definitely makes things much less accessible to a newcomer / outsider.
(Trilinos is a set of scientific / engineering libraries for HPC)
C++ for scientific programming?
6 projects | reddit.com/r/cpp | 27 Jul 2022

It can be the base of whatever *you* write via bindings generators like pybind11. In that sense, the answer to your question is "however you like". For actual simulation code, you'll see a lot more legacy Fortran and C. That said, with things like mdspan maybe being standardized (proposal), efforts towards a standard linear algebra library, and the existence of ubiquitous HPC frameworks already having been written in C++, I would say it's only a matter of time before C++ accounts for an even bigger share of all HPC code.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HELICS and Trilinos you can also consider the following projects:

FFTW - DO NOT CHECK OUT THESE FILES FROM GITHUB UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. (See below.)

GSL - GNU Scientific Library with CMake build support and AMPL bindings

Blitz++ - Git mirror of Blitz++ at http://sourceforge.net/projects/blitz/

Kratos - Kratos Multiphysics (A.K.A Kratos) is a framework for building parallel multi-disciplinary simulation software. Modularity, extensibility and HPC are the main objectives. Kratos has BSD license and is written in C++ with extensive Python interface.

Torch - http://torch.ch

Dimwits - A compact C++ header-only library providing compile-time dimensional analysis and unit awareness

suanPan - 🧮 An Open Source, Parallel and Heterogeneous Finite Element Analysis Framework