Criteria for successful runs.

[365andreas]

I am Andreas Triantafyllos from Huawei and I would like to ask for some clarification about the evaluation of a simulation.

I was wondering if there are specific references that explain the criteria to consider a simulation run as successful.

In particular, I am referring to: https://github.com/Mantevo/miniMD/blob/757601640493b75dbd7ec41336027e3d841ed78c/ref/run_one_test#L131-L132

How was the formula that takes into account the precision of floating-point numbers derived?

and

https://github.com/Mantevo/miniMD/blob/757601640493b75dbd7ec41336027e3d841ed78c/ref/run_one_test#L138

Why do total errors compared to the reference output have to be in the range 32% ± 6% in order to consider a run as successful? How was this range chosen?

I would be grateful if anyone could share any explanation or reference to the literature about the above.