The project is licenced under the GNU v3.0

Copyright Markus Kühbach, 2015-2017

TopologyTracer is an MPI-parallel datamining tool for the conducting of spatio-temporal analyses of microstructural element dynamics. Its purpose is the quantification of correlations — spatial and temporal — between individual microstructural elements and their higher-order neighboring elements. Specifically, its current functionalities allow to study the volume evolution of individual grains over time and set their growth history into relation to the evolution of the higher-order neighbors. The tool is unique insofar as it allows processing these individual surveys in a parallelized manner. Thus, enabling the post-processing of so far intractable large datasets.

The source code was developed by Markus Kühbach during his PhD time with Luis A. Barrales-Mora and Günter Gottstein at the Institute of Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics with RWTH Aachen University. Being now with the Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung GmbH in Dusseldorf, I maintain the code, though at disregular intervals. Nonetheless, feel free to utilize the tool, do not hesitate contacting me for sharing thoughts, suggesting improvements, or reporting your experiences. markus.kuehbach at rwth-aachen.de and m.kuehbach at mpie.de

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Reinhart Koselleck-Project (GO 335/44-1) and computing time grants kindly provided by RWTH Aachen University and the FZ Jülich within the scope of the JARAHPC project JARA0076.

This file is part of TopologyTracer.

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