LAVA Access Guide

LAVA is released through the NASA Software Catalog.

LAVA

• NAS Users (Module-Based Access): If you have access to NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) systems and want to run LAVA there, use the module system.
• External Users (Tarball Installation): If you would like to run LAVA on your own system, AWS or other cloud services, download pre-compiled binaries and install LAVA locally.

LAVA Voronoi

LAVA Voronoi is a specialized mesh generation tool that creates polyhedral-cell tessellations for two- and three-dimensional computational domains. It is released along with LAVA through the NASA Software Catalog.

• NAS Users (Module-Based Access): If you have access to NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) systems and want to run LAVA there, use the module system.
• External Users (Tarball Installation): If you would like to run Voronoi mesher on your own system, AWS or other cloud services, download pre-compiled binaries and install locally.

Executables

• LAVA: See the full list of supported executables here.
• LAVA Voronoi: lavavoro.AVX2 (hybrid MPI+OpenMP, AVX2-optimized for x86_64 CPUs).

LAVA on NAS

See LAVA on NAS for platform-specific notes and recommendations.

Getting Help

• Documentation: LAVA Documentation
• Contact and LAVA User Community: Contact Us
• NAS System Support: For NAS-specific issues, contact NAS User Services