Game of Life

C++ implementation of Conway's Game of Life with OpenMP parallelization.

Status

Requirements

• Boost C++ Libraries

Building from source

Generate makefiles and build using CMake by running the build bash script:

./build.sh

Usage

To run a simulation:

/path/to/GameOfLife config_file.cfg

Examples:

(Acorn)

(Pulsar)

Configuration files for both these examples are in the examples/ directory.

Testing

To run integration tests run

ctest

in the build directory.

To view test output, run ctest in extra verbose mode:

ctest -VV

OpenMP scaling benchmarks

Run

benchmark.sh

in the folder benchmarks/

Sample strong scaling benchmark: