detray

Detray is part of the ACTS project (R&D line for parallelization), the ACTS project can be found: https://github.com/acts-project/acts.

This is a C++17 header only library for detector surface intersections using different algebra plugin libraries. It follows the navigation and propagation concept of ACTS, however, with an attempt to create a geometry without polymorphic inheritance structure.

Requirements and dependencies

OS & compilers:

• The C++ compiler must support C++20
• The CUDA Toolkit version must be greater than major version 11

Dependency

• CMake

Getting started

The respository is meant to be possible to build "out of the box", with standard CMake build procedures.

git clone https://github.com/acts-project/detray.git
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -S detray -B detray-build
cmake --build detray-build

For tests and benchmarks with the inhomogeneous magnetic field, the ODD field in covfie format should be downloaded and the environment variable should be set.

cd detray/data
bash detray_data_get_files.sh
export DETRAY_BFIELD_FILE="${PWD}/odd-bfield_v0_9_0.cvf"

Build options

A number of cmake preset configurations are provided and can be listed by:

cmake -S detray --list-presets

For a developer build, the dev-fp32 and dev-fp64 configurations are available (fp: floating point precision):

cmake -S detray -B detray-build --preset dev-fp32

The developer presets will fetch all dependencies, but not automatically trigger the build of additional detray components. For example, in order to trigger the build of the unit tests, the corresponding option needs to be specified:

cmake -S detray -B detray-build --preset dev-fp32 \
-DDETRAY_BUILD_UNITTESTS=ON

A full build, containing all components (e.g. tests and benchmarks), can be configured using the full-fp32 and full-fp64 presets.

The following cmake options are available and can also be specified explicitly for any preset:

Option	Description	Default
DETRAY_BUILD_CUDA	Build the CUDA sources included in detray	ON (if available)
DETRAY_BUILD_SYCL	Build the SYCL sources included in detray	OFF
DETRAY_BUILD_TEST_UTILS	Build the detray test utilities library (contains e.g. test detectors)	OFF
DETRAY_BUILD_UNITTESTS	Build the detray unit tests	OFF
DETRAY_BUILD_INTEGRATIONTESTS	Build the detray integration tests	OFF
DETRAY_BUILD_ALL_TESTS	Build the detray unit and integration tests	OFF
DETRAY_BUILD_BENCHMARKS	Build the detray benchmarks	OFF
DETRAY_BUILD_CLI_TOOLS	Build the detray command line tools	OFF
DETRAY_BUILD_TUTORIALS	Build the examples of detray	OFF
DETRAY_CUSTOM_SCALARTYPE	Floating point precision	double
DETRAY_EIGEN_PLUGIN	Build Eigen math plugin	OFF
DETRAY_SMATRIX_PLUGIN	Build ROOT/SMatrix math plugin	OFF
DETRAY_VC_PLUGIN	Build Vc based math plugin	OFF
DETRAY_SVG_DISPLAY	Build ActSVG display module	OFF

Continuous benchmark

Monitoring the propagation speed with the toy geometry