Package etomica.action.activity

Collects classes that extend etomica.action.Activity, which implements Action and is an abstract class appropriate to encapsulate complex, time-consuming tasks.

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Description

Interface Summary

ActivityGroup
IController

Class Summary

ActivityGroupParallel	Organizer of simulation actions to be executed in parallel, each on its own thread.
ActivityGroupSeries	Organizer of simulation actions to be executed in series.
ActivityIntegrate	Activity that repeatedly invokes an Integrator's doStep method.
Controller	Organizer and executor of actions performed by the simulation.
Controller.ActionStatus	Enumerated type describing the status of an action.
Controller.UrgentWaitObject
Controller.WaitObject
ControllerEvent
ControllerEvent.Type
ControllerEventManager

Package etomica.action.activity Description

Collects classes that extend etomica.action.Activity, which implements Action and is an abstract class appropriate to encapsulate complex, time-consuming tasks. Unlike a simple Action, an Activity can be paused or even halted prematurely, typically through interaction with a user interface. The class that "runs" an Integrator, repeatedly invoking its doStep method, is an example of an Activity.

Specific sequences of actions can be defined by extending ActivityGroupSeries (which performs the tasks sequentially) or ActivityGroupParallel (which performs the tasks simultaneously, on separate threads). Traversal across a series of state points, for example to perform a thermodynamic-integration calculation, could be suitably implemented as an ActivityGroupSeries.

The Controller is a special ActivityGroupSeries that loops through a mutable list of Actions/Activities, performing each in turn. Each Simulation has one Controller instance, through which the simulation is conducted and other tasks are performed.