QUOKKA

Quadrilateral, Umbra-producing, Orthogonal, Kangaroo-conserving Kode for Astrophysics!

For detailed instructions on installing the code, please refer to the Quokka Documentation. You can start a Discussion for technical support, or open an Issue for any bug reports.

Quokka is a two-moment radiation hydrodynamics code that uses the piecewise-parabolic method, with AMR and subcycling in time. Runs on CPUs (MPI+vectorized) or NVIDIA GPUs (MPI+CUDA) with a single-source codebase. Written in C++20. (100% Fortran-free.)

This is a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability simulated with Quokka on a 512x512 uniform grid:

Dependencies

• C++ compiler (with C++20 support)
• CMake 3.16+
• Python 3.8+
• MPI library with GPU-aware support (OpenMPI, MPICH, or Cray MPI)
• HDF5 1.10+ (serial version)
• CUDA 12.0+ (optional, for NVIDIA GPUs)
• ROCm 6.3+ (optional, for AMD GPUs)
• ADIOS2 2.9+ with GPU-aware support (optional, for writing terabyte-sized or larger outputs)

Problems?

If you run into problems, please start a Discussion for technical support. If you discover a bug, please let us know by opening an Issue. You can also join our Zulip community.

Acknowledgements

We thank Kandra Labs, Inc. (“Zulip”) for providing hosted Zulip chat for our open-source community.