SpaceConverter is an application designed for handling simulation data in Astronomy and Cosmology. It features specialized importers current for OpenGADGET3, ChaNGa and HACC data, enabling high-performance conversion of SPH simulation outputs into volumetric OpenVDB formats. Optimized for seamless integration with Blender and Cycles, this MPI-based application efficiently scales across multiple CPU nodes in a cluster, ensuring rapid preparation of detailed datasets for rendering.
This work was supported by the SPACE project under grant agreement No 101093441. The project is supported by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and its members (including top-up funding by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic ID: MC2304).
This work was also supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic through the e-INFRA CZ (ID:90254).
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