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CyRSoXS: A GPU-accelerated virtual instrument for Polarized Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering (P-RSoXS)

27 Sep 2022arXiv:2209.13121links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Kumar Saurabh, Peter J. Dudenas, Eliot Gann, Veronica G. Reynolds, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Daniel Sunday, Tyler B. Martin, Peter A. Beaucage, Michael L. Chabinyc, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

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Polarized Resonant Soft X-ray scattering (P-RSoXS) has emerged as a powerful synchrotron-based tool that combines principles of X-ray scattering and X-ray spectroscopy. P-RSoXS provides unique sensitivity to molecular orientation and chemical heterogeneity in soft materials such as polymers and biomaterials. Quantitative extraction of orientation information from P-RSoXS pattern data is challenging because the scattering processes originate from sample properties that must be represented as energy-dependent three-dimensional tensors with heterogeneities at nanometer to sub-nanometer length scales. We overcome this challenge by developing an open-source virtual instrument that uses GPUs to simulate P-RSoXS patterns from real-space material representations with nanoscale resolution. Our computational framework CyRSoXS (https://github.com/usnistgov/cyrsoxs) is designed to maximize GPU performance. We demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of our approach by validating against an extensive set of test cases, which include both analytical solutions and numerical comparisons, demonstrating a speedup of over three orders relative to the current state-of-the-art simulation software. Such fast simulations open up a variety of applications that were previously computationally infeasible, including (a) pattern fitting, (b) co-simulation with the physical instrument for operando analytics, data exploration, and decision support, (c) data creation and integration into machine learning workflows, and (d) utilization in multi-modal data assimilation approaches. Finally, we abstract away the complexity of the computational framework from the end-user by exposing CyRSoXS to Python using Pybind. This eliminates I/O requirements for large-scale parameter exploration and inverse design, and democratizes usage by enabling seamless integration with a Python ecosystem (https://github.com/usnistgov/nrss).

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