Michael Bussmann

Remove. Any specific memory layout should remain outside Alpaka. This is done by LLAMA.

Agreed. My view was always this is the job of an extra interface/library. May I recommend LLAMA?

Could you elaborate on the use case scenario for which this is happening? Why do you need a CUDA backend when there is no GPU present?

I would not make this assumption. Combinig Alpaka with virtualization would invalidate this assumption. Think of dynamic resource allocation by a virtualized HPC system with several demanding workloads running in...

I like Benjamin's answer on the scope of Alpaka!

Hi William, yes, Julia support would be lovely. As ax3l pointed out, community-wise the interest is unfortunately limited, so the manpower is as well. Julia is IMHO quite o.k., but...

I think with some applications from laser and beam driven plasma accelerators one could aim for reusable, quasi-standard plots, e.g. electron density, phase space, energy histograms, field strengths, etc.

One should consider adding the down-sampling method as well.

Hi, I am going a bit off-topic with this but I think one could in general decouple the data format used to store data from the representation in memory. This...

"Open" boundaries sounds ambiguous to me.