VIDE (Void IDentification and Examination)

• Tool name , objectives, feature:

VIDE (Void IDentification and Examination toolkit) is an open-source Python/C++ code for finding cosmic voids in galaxy redshift surveys and N-body simulations, characterizing their properties, and providing a platform for more detailed analysis.

• contact (person witin ADE, ie. that can help, not necessarily author): Guilhem Lavaux
• author(s): Paul Sutter, Nico Hamaus, Guilhem Lavaux, Benjamin D. Wandelt
• publication(s), refs:

Lavaux & Wandelt (2011) (original publication), Neyrinck (2008 (for the Zobov Algorithm) Sutter et al. (2014) (code paper)

• main url:

https://bitbucket.org/cosmicvoids/vide_public/, https://cosmicvoids.net

• documentation (if any):

https://bitbucket.org/cosmicvoids/vide_public/wiki/Home

• type (library/app?): Framework and Application
• language (if known): C/C++/Python
• parallelism ( OpenMP, MPI, SPARK...): OpenMP, Trivial fork parallelism
• ressources required (laptop, center,super-computer): Tier 2 or 3
• availability (is it already installed somewhere?): IAP