exaDEM
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The facts
Each one read from exaDEM's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Application context
- The project says exaDEM is part of the PLEIADES platform, developed with CEA, EDF, and Framatome for simulation of fuel elements.checked 9 Oct 2026
What it does
- Assessment tools
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Authoring tools
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Build and installation
- The docs describe installation from source with CMake or installation of stable versions with Spack; GPU support is unavailable with Spack.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Configuration
- Users define simulations in YAML format and run them with the exaDEM executable.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Contact and forces
- Documented capabilities include contact laws, gravity, quadratic drag, and drivers such as cylinders, walls, spheres, and R-shapes.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Contact models
- Documented contact laws include Hooke, cohesive, and DMT laws.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Delivery mode
- desktopchecked 23 Sep 2026
- GPU capability limit
- The capabilities table marks GPU I/O files, ParaView files, particle migration, load balancing, and particle generation as unsupported.checked 9 Oct 2026
- GPU limitation
- The capabilities table marks I/O files, Paraview files, particle migration, load balancing, particle generation, and contact network files as unavailable on GPU.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Input and output
- Users create simulation input files in YAML format, and the documentation includes MPIIO/dump, XYZ, driver, and Rockable file formats.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The documentation provides CMake installation and Spack installation for stable versions; it says GPU support is unavailable through Spack.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Optional packages documented for use with exaDEM include RSA_MPI and Rockable.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The documentation describes exaDEM as a tool for researchers and engineers working on DEM simulations.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Lesson library
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- License
- The project repository identifies Apache-2.0 as the exaDEM license.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Parallel computing
- It combines MPI and OpenMP threading and supports MPI with GPUs using CUDA through the Onika layer.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Particle types
- The software supports simulations of spherical particles and spheropolyhedra.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Polyhedron feature
- Fragmentation is listed for polyhedra on CPU and GPU, but not for spheres.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ExaDEM is a Discrete Element Method code for computational simulations, developed within the exaNBody framework.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- The documented CMake prerequisites include MPI, Onika, ExaNBody, and yaml-cpp.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Simulation drivers
- Drivers include cylinders, walls or surfaces, balls or spheres, and RShape meshes, with several supported motion types.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
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